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Midnight Walks for Charities

This time of year many charities are releasing dates for their 2012 Midnight Walks. The Charities plan the events and the routes to be around 10-12k Continue reading

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Raising Money for Race for Life

The Race for Life 2012 dates have now been launched on the Race for Life official Website.

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Christmas Charity Raffles

After a beautiful end to September it now looks like Autumn has set in, which means Christmas is getting ever closer.  This is a very busy time of year for everyone at Care from Contraband, the Christmas Charity Fundraisers start to plan … Continue reading

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Planning a Charity Christmas Fair

Christmas Cards are one of the biggest fundraising channels for a charity. Festive Fates are a good idea, bring and buy sales and home made crafts Continue reading

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Christmas Fundraising Ideas

Christmas is one of the best times of year to raise money for charity, with increased shoppers in local shopping centres and towns and the joy of giving gifts at Christmas

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Christmas Fundraising Products

The sun is shining and summer is in full swing so why have I mentioned the word Christmas?  Well here at Care from Contraband this is the time of the year we get ready for our Christmas orders.

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10 Steps to a Successful a Fundraising Event

Here at Care from Contraband we deal with many Charities and Fund Raising Groups throughout the year.  Fundraising is a great way of raising money for your organisation but time should be taken to ensure that you carefully plan your … Continue reading

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UK Charity Fundraising

UK Charities Did you know that in England and Wales, there are around 170,000 main charities that are registered with the Charity Commission? Most of the Charities are not for profit organisations so they depend on receiving their donations through … Continue reading

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Medals for fundraising charity events

When it comes to raising money for charity events a great way to accomplish this is through charity fundraising. Continue reading

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Challenges and Changes! Merry Christmas!

How much will the charity market be hit by the economic recession? How will fundraisers respond to the challenge of maintaining donations? Will national disasters such as the flooding in Pakistan attract donations that would otherwise go to local Charities or will “charity begin at home”? Continue reading

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