How to Help

To Help Raise Funds and Awareness



COLLECT DONATIONS with our Sponsorship Form.


SIGN UP TO EVERYCLICK

The benefits of signing up to Everyclick:

  • It's easy to keep track of your donations.  
  • You can raise funds for free while you shop and search the web as normal. 
  • You can have your own online fundraiser
     
To sign-up

Go to www.everyclick.com and click 'Sign In', then select 'Sign Up'.

Search for and select Invest in ME as the charity you wish to support (you can't set Let's Do It For ME! as your cause yet, you need to be signed up to select our page). Press continue, fill in your personal details, and click 'Finish' to create your account.

You will be redirected to your account page. To register with Let's do it for ME! select 'Change my cause' (an orange circle with an arrow). You will be presented with two options:
 
  • Which charity would you like to support?
  • Search for a fundraising page? 

Choose 'Search for a fundraising page?' and enter "lets do it for me" into the search box. Our page will appear as: 

Fundraising 4ME
let's do it for me!


Select our page and 'Confirm change'. Your Account page will now say:

I am supporting: 
Let's do it for ME!

RAISE FUNDS FOR FREE!

After you've signed up (see instructions above) you can use Everyclick's Give As You Live application to generate funds for the centre. Once installed in your web browser it runs in the background generating funds as you shop online and search the web as normal, at no cost to you. 

It is a UK based application for UK charities and stores only. The list of stores taking part in this scheme is very wide and varied, including many clothing stores, DIY stores, home and garden stores, electrical stores, travel agents, and health and beauty stores. You can view and search the list here.

The Give As You Live™ application is available for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari and is said to be coming soon for Google Chrome.

Download the Give As You Live™ application here.

The application is an excellent way to raise funds as once it is installed you do not need to remember to do anything further. Whenever you visit a Give as you Live™ retailer a message will appear letting you know you are raising money for your cause, and using your preferred search engine as normal will generate funds as you search the web.

If you do not wish to install the application or cannot do so, you can still raise funds by shopping online via www.giveasyoulive.com/search/stores and by searching the web via http://www.everyclick.com/

For more information on how the Give As You Live™ application works see How does Give As You Live™ work?  

Invest in ME are also registered with easyfundraising.co.uk, another way to raise funds as you shop and surf the web. You will find some stores are only registered with Easyfundraising so it's definitely worth signing up to both, the % donated from your purchase may also differ between the applications.

START AN ONLINE FUNDRAISER 

To start you own online fundraiser select 'Create a new page' from your Everyclick account page

Where it says 'Group: None selected' and 'Join this page to a group?'. 
Select 'Join this page to a group?' and enter "lets do it for me" into the search box.

Our group will appear as:

Let's Do It For Me!
this page is dedicated to raising funds for the small charity invest in me..


Select our group, then fill in the details of your fundraiser to complete your page. See our fundraising group here.


RAISE FUNDS IN YOUR COMMUNITY 

Organise a fundraiser, using our sponsorship form to collect donations from family and friends.

Cheques should be made payable to Invest in ME and posted to:
Invest in ME, 
PO Box 561, 
Eastleigh, 
SO50 0GQ, 
Hampshire, UK. 

For clarity, write "for the centre" on the back and, if possible, add Gift Aid to your donation with Invest in ME's Gift Aid form.

To arrange a store collection, or other kind of venture, email us at fundraising4me@gmail.com.

Send in photos of your fundraising events to us (at the same email address as above). An album of your photos will be added to our website.

(We are also seeking 'Supporters' photos for our album, see Show Us You Best Side - Photo Competition!.)


RECYCLE INK CARTRIDGES & MOBILE PHONES

Recycle your ink cartridges and old mobile phones with The Recycling Factory. On their website you will see the lists of cartridges and phones that they currently recycle, including the value.

Contact The Recycling Factory to request Freepost envelopes, quoting Invest in ME charity barcode number - 11092411285401

Telephone: +44 (0)800 091 0696
Email: info@trf-uk.com

Send off your phones and cartridges in the Freepost envelope, ensuring that they are carefully wrapped (as they will not pay for damaged cartridges) and the funds will go direct to Invest in ME.


OTHER WAYS TO HELP

  • Invest in ME are also registered with easyfundraising.co.uk, another way to raise funds as you shop and surf the web.

  • Other ways to help Invest in ME are listed here.




STAY UP-TO-DATE & SPREAD THE WORD

  • SHARE any page of our website with AddToAny (top of right-hand column). 
  • Email updates - to receive emails from us enter you address in the box marked 'Follow By Email' (2nd-to-top in the sidebar)
  • Follow our blog with Google Connect or Networked Blogs (right side-bar).

Facebook
  • Like our Facebook Page to see what fellow supporters are doing to raise funds and create awareness, and share the Page with friends.
  • Join our Cause and invite friends.

Twitter

Let's do it for ME! works in close cooperation with Invest in ME. All donations go directly to them and towards the UK centre, see our campaign highlighted on their website here.

Thank you so much for your support!