FUNDRAISING
Fundraising for CATH
Donations and community fundraising are an essential part of our income which helps us to provide the level and range of services we do.
It couldn’t be easier to help us:
Sleepout, Sleep in or Sleepover
Each winter a group of hardy volunteers are sponsored to ‘sleep out’ for one night in a Chester car park to raise money for us, usually around £10,000.
Alternatively if you’d like to support us from the comfort of your own bed and have a ‘sleep in’ give us a call or go on line to find out how to make a donation.
If you’re too young to sleep out but want to help us fund raise, why not organise a sleep over? Get a group of your friends together and ask your parents or carers to sponsor you to NOT keep them awake all night!
If you want to join us sleeping out, in or over contact us on 01244 314834 or email info@cath.org.uk for a sponsorship pack.
Make a one-off donation
Justgiving
Set up a regular Standing Order
Leave a gift in your will
Remembering CATH in your will is a special and personal way to make your concern for the homeless felt for many years to come. It doesn’t need to be a big donation to make a big difference.
If you would like to leave CATH a gift in your will, the best way forward is to contact your solicitor for impartial advice. We don’t need any specific wording but we do need you to include our Registered Charity number 1074401.
Plan your own fundraising
At school, college or university
- Organise your own sleep over
- Plan cake sales or sponsored events
- Ask us to send a speaker to talk to you about homelessness
At work
- Make CATH your chosen charity
- Start a swear box with fines for every slip of the tongue
- Collect your coppers – empty your pockets and purses of copper coins each evening into a CATH collecting box
- Organise a sweepstake the next time a major sport event comes along like the Grand National, with a percentage of the cash raised coming to CATH
Through your place of worship
- Take part in the sleep out, sleep in or sleep over
- Choose CATH for Christmas or Harvest Festival collections
With your group
- Plan your own sponsored events
- Take part in our sleep out, sleep in or sleep over
- Support us on collection days
As an individual
- Set up one-off or regular payments
Why we need Fundraising
Through client housing benefit and grants from other charities, businesses and statutory authorities, we are able to meet our core accommodation commitments. But we are determined to continue to go further than that and provide the facilities needed to help people sort their problems and start again. It is private fundraising and donations that enable us to offer the full support needed to rebuild lives, including access to skilled staff, counselling, advice services, showers and clothes washing facilities and hot meals.
If you want to chat about fundraising for CATH, contact Robert Bisset on 01244 314834.
