FUNDRAISING
As an independent, charitable organisation YET relies on the community’s support to continue empowering and creating opportunity for young people in need. We rely heavily on contributions from individuals and business communities to ensure our intervention work continues to prevent social and financial burdens for future communities.
We are wholly independent, non-sectarian and non-denominational and we live by the same conscience-based values we seek to impart to young people. These include the highest ethical standards to ensure our integrity of purpose in word and action.
As an individual, corporate body, community group or workplace you can support Australia’s youth through fundraising for Youth Enterprise Trust.
Become a YET Community Ambassador, spread the word of YET and help us raise funds
Fundraising comes in many forms; here is a swag of ideas…..
- Hold a Raffle
- Auction – silent or live
- Mufti Day – wear odd coloured socks, uniform free day / wear a wig to work day, Akubra to work day
- Chocolate Drive / Muffin Drive / Damper Drive – make or bake a whole load of goodies for your work place or local markets and donate the proceeds
- Trivia Night – hold a Trivia night in support of YET with your own questions, or use our specially designed ‘YET Australian Trivia’ pack
- Gold Coin Collection Friday
- Talent quest
- Staff Sausage Sizzle / BBQ lunch
- Fun Run – organise your own or participate in a community event
- Hold a dinner party, long lunch or high tea with your friends
- Organise a game of lawn bowls with your workmates; a fundraiser and a team building day!
- Swear box……gold coin donation for every curse dispelled at work!
Let us show you how....
Do an Australian deed for YET
- Wear an Akubra hat for 24 hours……collect $1 dollar for every hour you wear it!
- Eat 10 lamingtons in 10 minutes……..raise $1 dollar for every lamington you eat!
- Give up chocolate or alcohol for 1 month……raise sponsorship dollars for your efforts!
Raise sponsorship money from family, friends, neighbours and work mates in support of YET. You will be pleasantly surprised at how many people want to support Australia’s youth, they just need a cause to do so. Further event ideas, sponsorship forms and money collection buckets are available for use – this will make your fundraising and fund collecting a whole lot easier!
Throw a shrimp on the BBQ
Get into the true blue spirit – hold a traditional Aussie BBQ at your home, workplace or a local park to raise funds for YET; simply ask guests for a gold coin donation and Bob’s your uncle………your fundraising for YET!
Hold a Raffle or Auction at your workplace
- Step 1 – contact local businesses, shops and suppliers to source prizes
- Step 2 – promote your raffle / auction via signs around the workplace outlining what is up for grabs, and when the prize will be drawn / auctioned
- Step 3 – Sell, sell, sell the raffle tickets!
Promote, promote, promote the auction prize! - Step 4 – Make it an occasion - hold a function, morning tea or lunch in honour of the raffle draw / auction. It will give the opportunity for your colleagues to take 5 from work….and draw attention to who you are supporting!
Hold an Australian Bush Trivia Function
Who wrote Waltzing Matilda?
What do the emu and kangaroo represent on the Australian Coat of Arms?
What are the five colours of the Australian currency notes?
Test your friends, families or work associates of their Australian knowledge with our YET Trivia pack. Included in the kit are 100 Trivia question and answer cards, Score Cards, Prize and Venue set up ideas, Sponsorship ideas, YET ‘with thanks’ cards and a whole lot of Australian brain straining fun!!
The work day fundraising challenge – Are we there YET?’
How much money can your workplace raise in one work day?
Incorporate your annual fundraising activities into one day. Allocate ambassadors in your workplace to hold some type of money raising activity throughout the day…perhaps every hour!
Gold coin donation for a BBQ breakfast, morning tea auction, BBQ lunch cooked by your boss, afternoon trivia match, all day raffle contact all stakeholders and have them match the received donations dollar for dollar, encourage friends/family and clients to donate in support of your efforts.
Add your event onto Everyday Hero - let the community help you…to help us!
‘Everyday Hero’ is a great website to help raise funds in support of your fundraising event, simply log onto www.everydayhero.com.au to register your event, notify friends / family / work pals of how to donate and watch the dollars add up! ‘Everyday Hero’ works in partnership with charities and individuals to assist in the co-ordination of donations to a particular cause.
Tips from the team at YET
- First step, contact the YET office to receive a YET Fundraising Form, and register your event.
- YET will add your event onto the YET website, provide you with promotional material, local contacts, a letter of registration to verify your event and a whole truck load of advice
- Invite media along to your event – simply call or email your local paper
- Advertise your event for free on websites like; ourbrisbane.com.au /radio community notice boards
- Contact your local MP to request their support, either financial or good in kind
