fundraising
In addition to regular volunteering opportunities, the Ectopic Pregnancy Trust also has a programme of on-going fundraising events throughout the year.
What can you do to help generate valuable funds?
We have a full programme of events. These include:
- Marathons
- Fun Runs
- Swims
- Triathlons
- An Annual Birthday tea party
- The Big Fun Run
- The FSI Challenge
Furthermore, we have Guaranteed Places in:
- The London Marathon (5)
- The Adidas Women’s Challenge (25)
- The Big FunRun (unlimited)
People also raise money for us by holding smaller events such as Tea Parties and Coffee Mornings.
Take a look at this calendar of suggested events and see if one appeals to you?
Once you have chosen your keep fit and made a difference event, contact our fundraising coordinator with details about your event, date, time and place. Jill Ansell, the fundraising coordinator will be back in touch with more information about how to raise sponsorship for The Ectopic Pregnancy Trust and to send you a fundraising pack to help you on your way to really helping us.
01 JANUARY – 31 DECEMBER 2010 – SKYDIVING
No previous experience is necessary, just a head for heights and an adventurous spirit! Skydives take place all over the UK on most weekends of the year.
JANUARY to OCTOBER 2010 – RUNNING
The Bupa Great Runs: Check out their website for an event, venues include, Edinburgh, Dublin, Manchester, Sunderland, Sheffield, Newcastle, London and Portsmouth
JUNE to SEPTEMBER – SWIMMING
If running isn’t your bag, how about swimming? The Great Swim Series might be the one for you.
A one-mile outdoor swim in one of four locations:
- East: Alton Water 19th June
- London: Victoria Docks 3rd July
- Scotland: Stratclyde 21st August
- North: Windermere 4/5th September
A brilliant challenge for swimmers of all abilities
See some of the world’s top swimmers compete against one another, across the same one mile course as the masses, in the elite race.
Highlights shown on TV
Between £25 and £35 to enter, depending upon the venue – includes your entry fee, event pack (Great Swim swim hat to keep and timing chip), Great Swim souvenir medal and t-shirt, not to mention the huge sense of achievement.
The first staging of the event in 2009, saw 1500 swimmers take the plunge.
To sign up for your British Gas Great Swim place visit their website.
Other events, running, fun runs month by month.
JANUARY
23rd Guildford, Surrey, Merrell Wildman
24th Preston, Lancashire Chernobyl 10k
31st Hampshire Riotrunner 7 miles
31st Epsom, Surrey. Epsom Oddballs Perch 10k
FEBRUARY
7th Ashford and District, Kent – 10km run
Longleat, Somerset – 10km run
Surry: Nonsuch Park- 10km Funrun
14th – Cirencester, Gloucestershire off road Duatholon
MARCH
6th Guildford, Surrey: G3 Series 10k – G3 Series 10km run
Nottinghamshire: Clumber Park Duathlon
7th Hampton court, Surrey: Bushy Park, – 10km run
Bath, Avon: Half Marathon
Paris, France – Half Marathon
21st Lincoln, Lincs 10km run -
Reading, Berkshire – Half Marathon
27th Surrey: Bolt round the Holt – 10k run
28th Liverpool, Merseyside Half Marathon
APRIL
4th Halton, Cheshire – 5 mile run
11th Sidmouth, Devon – Aquathlon
18th Brighton, East Sussex – Marathon
18th Winchester, Hampshire – Fast Twitch Triathlon – Email them
25th Virgin London Marathon – We have now filled all of our places for the Virgin London Marathon 2010 but if you would like to add your name to our waiting list please register with our clearing house by following the links
MAY
2nd Hampshire: The New Forest – Triathlon
9th Essex Mucky Races Colchester The Gauntlet 10k run
9th Bristol, Avon 10k run
15th Chichester, West Sussex Just Walks 10km, 20km, 40km and 60km distances across the South Downs
12th-16th Cycle from London to Paris London to Paris Cycle
31st London Bupa 10000 Bupa 10k run
JUNE
5th Derbyshire, Thornbridge Hall: The FSI challenge – If you would like to enter the Challenge for the Ectopic Pregnancy Trust, please complete the email registration at this link, then hit the send button to let us know you are interested and we’ll create you a fundraising pack.
6th Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands – Great Midlands Fun Run 8.5 Miles -
13th Windsor, Berkshire – Triathlon
London DIFC 5k Super Hero fun run
JULY – OCT
The Big Fun Runs: 14 venues, across the UK Check out our link for more information
JULY
3 -4th Derbyshire The 3 Peaks Challenge: Chatsworth Walk 2010
4th Windsor, Berkshire – Steelman Triathlon
20th Llanelli, Dyfed, Wales – Waterside 10km runs
AUGUST
1st Reading, Berkshire – Concorde Triathlon Sprint –
7-8th London – Mazda Triathlon
SEPTEMBER
5th London – Adidas Women’s 5k Challenge in Hyde Park – run, jog or walk, this is a fabulous event – definitely worth entering! – Look for the link to THE ECTOPIC PREGNANCY TRUST.
12th London – Duathlon
19th Newcastle – Great North Run
26th Manchester – DIFC 5k Super Hero
OCTOBER
10TH London – Royal Parks Half Marathon
17th Cardiff – Half Marathon
NOVEMBER
7th New York, USA – Marathon
21st Derbyshire – High Peak Winter Trail Challenge
DECEMBER
12th Lancashire: Longridge 7 Christmas Pudding Race
Or if you can’t find anything that you fancy in that little lot, search for an event near you or one further afield.
Runners World
Running Diary
What’s on When?
The Running Bug
Fundraisers’ Blog
We keep a fundraisers’ diary on the website where we record what people have done or are doing to raise funds and support the EPT - would you like to support one of our fundraisers? Find out what they will be doing to raise money for the Trust and read about their efforts in their own words in our fundraisers’ diary.
If you’re planning an event let us know and we will promote you on the website. Take a look some of things our fundraisers have done. We’ll send you a bespoke fundraising pack with everything you need to make your event go well, direct you to the place where you can set up an online fundraising page and we’ll publicise the event through our fundraisers’ diary if you would let us, so make sure you contact us in advance.
There are other ways to support our fundraising efforts:
Everyclick
Consider using everyclick as your search engine. Every time you search with everyclick using the link, they donate 1p to us. Between August 2006 and September 2009 our supporters who had been clicking with everyclick added around £600, which is enough to sustain our website and forum pages for more than four weeks . It costs users nothing at all from their own pockets, so please do give it a go and click with everyclick, as it really does help. Why not visit everyclick now and then send the URL to your friends and family and ask them to make our portal to everyclick something they use regularly as well?
eBay
If you buy and sell on eBay, you can choose to donate a percentage of your sale to us. Just remember to complete the donation instruction on the sale template when you set up your sale.
Charity greeting cards
Send an E-Greeting Card instead of a paper one and support us. We work in partnership with CharityGreetings. If you send egreeting cards, the e-card you send results in a donation being passed on to us. Check out what they have to offer here.
Buyat
Shop though our shopping page at Buy-at and we receive a percentage to help support us here, at no extra cost to you. If you shop on-line you can really help to make a difference to us. Find out how here .
Give and Celebrate
Some of our supporters have chosen to ask for donations to the Trust in lieu of, for example, wedding, birthday and christening presents. If it’s a gift, please consider Gift Share through our partners or simply set up a fundraising page and ask people to donate to that in lieu of your special event. We use Virgin Money Giving for these generous donations. If you need more information, please contact us.
Give as you earn (GAYE)
To join Give As You Earn your employer will need to be running a scheme. Our bank, CAF Bank, will help you find out if your employer is already running a scheme and if not, will even approach them to set one up.
Gifting in wills
This is called legacy giving. If you would like to find out more about leaving money to the Trust in your Will, please contact us.
Corporate giving
If you would like more information about corporate giving, please contact us.
