Fundraising
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Fundraising
practice must follow the fundraising provisions of the Charities
Acts and other relevant legislation, and local government
bye-laws.
Gifts or donations from a unit or area to an individual or
another charity must not be made from general funds, but must be
made with money collected for that specific purpose.
Funds raised for a declared specific purpose must be used only
for that purpose. The income and expenditure must be shown
separately in the unit's or area's accounts and may be deposited or
invested separately from the general funds, if desired. Funds may
be raised for more than one purpose at the same time (eg a
children's charity and the unit) provided all beneficiaries are
listed on any promotional literature, sponsor forms, collecting
buckets etc.
A series of downloadable booklets on different aspects of
fundraising is available on
Girlguiding UK's website.
Sponsorship
Sponsorship is the giving of money or gifts in kind, or both, by
another organisation in return for benefits from Girlguiding UK
(such as having its name on materials produced) which are of
commercial benefit to the partner organisation. As such, the money
or gifts in kind usually come from the organisation's marketing or
education budgets. Fundraising, by contrast, is soliciting goods or
money from an organisation without offering any direct benefit to
the organisation. This money usually comes from a community budget.
Note that gaining media coverage for a donation given by a company
does not make the gift into sponsorship.
Grants
Grants are often available, from both within and outside
guiding, for example to help towards the cost of travel, training,
research or accommodation. For more information, see Girlguiding
UK's website.
Prize money
Prize money won in a competition by a member of Girlguiding UK
acting as such is kept by her unless specified otherwise in the
competition rules.
Balloon
Releases
Environmentally, balloon releases do a lot of damage and can
affect farming and marine habitats in an adverse way. If you have
already planned to hold a large balloon release we would advise you
to ensure that the balloons are bio-degradable and ask that you do
not attach string, ribbon or tags to the balloons. We would
strongly recommend that this type of spectacle is avoided if at all
possible in your future plans.
Sky Lanterns/Chinese
Lanterns
These, like balloons, eventually fall to the ground and can
cause considerable harm to wild life and the environment. The wire
element of the lantern in particular could kill any animal that
eats it and causes damage to farm machinery. We would
strongly recommend that this type of spectacle is avoided if at all
possible in your future plans.
Page last updated: 1/13/2012