# Small charities invited to fundraise for themselves from car raffle

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/05/19/small-charities-invited-fundraise-themselves-car-raffle/
- Published: 2009-05-19T14:25:44+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Foundation for Social Improvement (FSI) is running a car raffle that is open
to any small UK charity to take part in and use to fundraise. The raffle has been
designed to give small

charities the chance to sell £2 paper or online tickets, to raise funds for themselves.

 

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Charities that sell tickets will keep 95.2% of the value of those tickets. There
is no sign-up fee or need for the charity to pay for the tickets. The 4.8% is used
to pay the costs and fees of the draw.

 

The car on offer is a Fiat 500 Pop 1.2, provided by Zurich Insurance.

 

To qualify as “a small charity” for the purposes of this campaign, an organisation
must be “a 100% not-for-profit organisation with an annual raised voluntary income
of less than £1.5 million”.

 

The FSI was set up by Emma Harrison, who featured in Channel 4’s ‘Secret Millionaire’
series, to build and share knowledge within the Third Sector.

 

She explained: “People struggled to understand why we would set up a charity to 
give free help to other charities. The answer is simple. It’s all about the multiplier
effect.

 

“The FSI helps to build strong small charities, they learn how to fundraise and 
run their organisations better and communities benefit from better resourced charities.
Strong communities are built with strong support mechanisms. It is entrepreneurial
and high

impact.

 

“The [small charity car draw](http://www.thefsi.org/car-draw.html) is just one of
our tools for getting funds to small charities without it costing them anything 
other than the time to sell a ticket”.

 

The charity has been supported by Everyclick in promoting the initiative.

 

Tickets will be available in early June. There are 250,000 tickets available online
and a charity can sell as many of these as it can, but on a first-come first-served
basis. There are 250,000 paper tickets available and a charity can sell as many 
of these as it can. However, the FSI will only send out tickets in maximum batches
of 500.

 

To take part small charities can register now at:

 

www.everyclick.com/charities/charity-car-draw

 

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