# Diabetes UK encourages event fundraisers with photos and a Vine video

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/09/05/diabetes-uk-encourages-event-fundraisers-with-photos-and-vine-video/
- Published: 2013-09-05T22:58:01+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Diabetes UK have today shown how easy it is to thank and encourage their event fundraisers
in public using a combination of scissors, colour photocopies, Instagram and Vine.

@missjengrieves is cycling from London to Paris to raise funds for the charity. 
To inspire her and the other cyclists, the Diabetes UK team have created some homemade
photos and a video.

 

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They even showed the before and after stage of producing the quick video, sharing
the images on Instagram.com.

Of course, charities don't have time to thank all supporters in this individual 
way. But these image-based thank you's have a habit of being shared, bringing the
message to the supporters' friends and family at least, and often further afield.
While it uses an image of just one supporter, the message is for all the event participants.

Diabetes UK were among the earliest adopters of short video format service Vine,
and are clearly continuing to use it to engage with their supporters.

 

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   6 September 2013)
 * **[Charity Commission – brief website survey](https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/09/09/charity-commission-brief-website-survey/)**(
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 * **[Institute of Fundraising’s Digital Fundraising Conference](https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/09/12/institute-of-fundraising039s-digital-fundraising-conference/)**(
   12 September 2013)