Helping-Hand Appeal: Fundraising ideas and tips

Activities, suggestions and steps everyone can take to support the Helping-Hand Appeal.

Supporting the Helping-Hand Appeal does not have to involve big gestures or complicated events: it is a year-round opportunity to make a difference in a way that suits you.

Here are a few activities you could try this year as a corps or group. Tell us what you’re doing by emailing salvationist@salvationarmy.org.uk.

Community meal

Organise a dinner event and sell tickets.

Cooking class

Why not partner local chefs to offer cooking classes?

Gardening workshop

Teach attendees how to grow their own food, including providing starter kits with seeds and tools for a small fee. That could be at your own corps or centre, if you have a community garden, or it could be in partnership with a school or community centre. You could decorate any plant pots used with a Scripture reference.

Quiz night

Everyone loves a quiz evening! Why not play one of the Helping-Hand Appeal videos part way through to remind people why they’re there?

Generosity jar

Keep a container or jar at your corps or centre for people to pop their spare change in through the year.

Fashion show

Collaborate with your nearest charity shop to host a fashion show and raise money through tickets or the sale of second-hand items.

Sponsored walk

To help people think about travelling sustainably, why not host a sponsored group walk? Or a challenge to reduce the number of car journeys taken and donate any money saved?

Pray

Father God, there is so much in this world that is confusing and frightening. We think of women and children who are in situations that are very different from our own – situations that are hard to think about.

But we thank you that The Salvation Army is at work in places where your blessing is needed, where people need to know you and be assured of a way out.

We pray especially now for the team in Jashore, that you will faithfully enable them to shine your light in that place and that The Salvation Army’s important work internationally with women and girls can continue as we support with our prayers and our donations.

Help us to be generous with our lives, to open up to others as far as we are able, and in turn enable others to open up to you. Amen.