# Small Charity Week offers small charities opportunities to raise and win funds

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/04/10/small-charity-week-offers-small-charities-opportunities-raise-and-win-funds/
- Published: 2013-04-10T13:29:37+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Small Charity Week once again offers small and local charities a range of free
opportunities to win and raise funds, including competitions, quizzes, auctions 
and collections.**

 

 

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[Small Charity Week](http://www.smallcharityweek.com) 2013 includes a dedicated **
Fundraising Day** on 21 June which this year is sponsored by JustTextGiving by Vodafone
supported by the Vodafone Foundation.

 

 

 

The week, which this year runs from **17-22 June**, was set up in 2010 by The FSI
with the aim of celebrating the work of small charities with the broadest audience
possible. Last year over 1,000 small charities took part.

 

 

 

Fundraising opportunities for small charities

 

 

 

This year’s opportunities are open to charitable organisations with an annual turnover
of under £1.5 million. They are:

 

 * A JustTextGiving by Vodafone competition to support small charities to raise 
   more money for their charity by text alongside the chance for three small charities
   to **win a share of £1,000 donation from the Vodafone Foundation.**
 * An **eBay Give at Checkout competition** which raised £17,000 for 5 small charities
   in 2012.
 * **Free community fundraising licenses** and the opportunity to win street performers
   to support fundraising activity
 * The **Small Charity Week eBay auction**

 

Clare Jones-Leake, Head of Giving Something Back at Vodafone UK, said:

 

> “JustTextGiving by Vodafone makes text donations available to all UK charities,
> free of charge.  So even the smallest charities operating on the most limited 
> of budgets can see just what text can do for them. By partnering with Small Charity
> Week 2013 Fundraising Day, we hope to see an explosion of small charities using
> their unique text codes to raise more money.”

 

Pauline Broomhead, CEO of the FSI, the charity behind Small Charity Week, added:

 

> “The current fundraising climate is more difficult now than ever before and small
> charities are continuing to struggle to engage with individual supporters, corporates
> and to secure grants from trusts and foundations and statutory sources. Fundraising
> is essential for any charity and we are delighted to be able to offer Fundraising
> Day as a way for small charities to raise additional funds.”

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