Social gatherings and community events present an opportunity for fundraising. You don’t need us to tell you of all the ways to do this:
Think about it next time you are involved in something… Or start something yourself. Just email us if you would like our help in making something happen.
Local organisations often do one or more fundraisings for charity each year – service clubs such as Lions and Rotary, RSLs and other clubs – garden clubs, car clubs, sporting clubs, bridge clubs, bowls clubs, and so on.
Sometimes they raise funds for their own organisation but give some of that to a charity. Other times they are happy to run a special event just for a charity.
Contact your local organisations and see if they will help out. Get involved, get your family and relatives involved with local clubs and community groups and make them aware of HSP and the HSP Research Foundation.
If you might have an opportunity to approach a local organisation about fundraising for HSP, and you would like some help with that, email us and we will give you all the support needed to help make that happen.
Business organisations appreciate the need to be, and be seen as, good members of their local community. This may take the form of a working bee to paint the hall or clubhouse of a sporting club, organising a day outing for disadvantaged kids or a company giving program where a percentage of profits are gifted to charity.
Employee matching programs are becoming increasingly popular, where employees initiate fundraising for causes of their choice and the company matches their fundraising on some basis such as dollar-for-dollar. Ask the company you work for about giving or employee-matching programs and let us know!
Remember that the Foundation receives no financial support at all from the government. Without members’ fundraising efforts there would be no Gene Testing Service, there would be no stem cell research towards a cure for HSP, there will be no clinical trials. Every cent counts in funding research for a cure.
Support the Foundation’s ongoing efforts to fund research to find an effective treatment for HSP.
Gifts of $2 or more are tax-deductible. You will be emailed a receipt.
