# Five Halloween fundraising campaigns for 2015

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/10/29/five-halloween-fundraising-campaigns/
- Published: 2015-10-29T12:56:29+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**With Halloween activities this year likely to spread over both Friday and Saturday,
here are some charities making the most of this occasion for fundraising and promotion.**

## 1. Bat Conservation Trust

The Bat Conservation Trust’s Bat Conservation Week is certainly well-timed. Here
are some of their fundraising activities:

> Help us help bats this [#Halloween](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Halloween?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> [@ChrisGPackham](https://twitter.com/ChrisGPackham?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [https://t.co/bSHel9wSOJ](https://t.co/bSHel9wSOJ)
> [#lovebats](https://twitter.com/hashtag/lovebats?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> [#battyHalloween](https://twitter.com/hashtag/battyHalloween?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> [pic.twitter.com/tek9bKxrkD](https://t.co/tek9bKxrkD)
> 
> ## Advertisement
> 
>  [⌊Posthub advert. You create the campaign. We'll handle the postal journey. Get started at post-hub.co.uk.⌉](https://fundraising.co.uk/ads/posthub-20261007-300x250/)
> — Bat Conservation Trust (@_BCT_) [October 28, 2015](https://twitter.com/_BCT_/status/659357730084360192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> It's Bat Week! Treat yourself to a bat mug. 10% is donated to [@_BCT_](https://twitter.com/_BCT_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> [https://t.co/TN5nLlLSfo](https://t.co/TN5nLlLSfo) [#bat](https://twitter.com/hashtag/bat?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> [#wildlife](https://twitter.com/hashtag/wildlife?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> [#BatWeek](https://twitter.com/hashtag/BatWeek?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/arIGcKOfQT](https://t.co/arIGcKOfQT)
> — Creature Candy (@CreatureCandy9) [October 29, 2015](https://twitter.com/CreatureCandy9/status/659644873189015552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Halloween pumpkin gone batty! Donated Halloween candy fund to [@_BCT_](https://twitter.com/_BCT_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> [https://t.co/MDLp1wqDf0](https://t.co/MDLp1wqDf0) [#Bats](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bats?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> [@JustGiving](https://twitter.com/JustGiving?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/HvuM9wBry7](https://t.co/HvuM9wBry7)
> — Dr Kimm Curran / kimmcurran.bsky.social (@kimmcurran) [October 25, 2015](https://twitter.com/kimmcurran/status/658229736758517760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

 

## 2. World Vision and Carve a Heart 2015

![World Vision #carveaheart campaign](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/
2015/10/carve-a-heart-halloween-world-vision.jpg)

World Vision’s #carveaheart campaign includes shareable images and a Powerpoint 
for churches.

World Vision is using Halloween to give people the chance to turn an event on which“
millions of children face a night of fear” into one that “helps spread our love 
to those children living in some of the most challenging conditions.”

> “World Vision is in the world’s hardest places tonight and every night. Right 
> now, we are comforting children as they wake from nightmares of abuse, helping
> girls and boys forced into marriage or hard labour and protecting children fleeing
> bombs and disasters”.

Their [Carve A Heart](http://www.worldvision.org.uk/carveaheart) campaign invites
people to carve a heart into a pumpkin and to make a text donation.

**Editor’s note:** _the video previously embedded here (https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=FgKAl3S887U) is no longer available._

 

## 3. St Ann’s Hospice and Halloween Dog Walk

![St Ann's Hospice Paws Spooktacular dog walk](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/wp-
content/uploads/2015/10/paws-spooktacular-dog-walk-halloween.jpg)

Autumn and Halloween is as good a time for a sponsored walk as any, so St Ann’s 
Hospice is holding its [Paws Spooktacular](https://community.sah.org.uk/2011_redesign/pages/2015---paws-registration-page)
5km sponsored dog walk on Halloween.

 

## 4. Diabetes UK and Dress Diabolical

![Dress Diabolical for Diabetes UK](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/
2015/10/diabetes-uk-dress-diabolical-clown.jpg)

Diabetes UK’s chief executive Chris Askew dresses diabolically for the charity’s
new Halloween fundraising campaign.

Diabetes UK is making the most of people’s delight in dressing up for Halloween 
by encouraging them to take part in its new [Dress Diabolical](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/2015/10/22/diabetes-uks-introduces-fancy-dress-halloween-fundraising-event/)
fundraising campaign.

The charity is focusing on younger donors for the event, based on research in a 
YouGov poll of 2,122 people that it commissioned.

Thirty six per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds will be dressing up or wearing face paint
this Halloween, and a third (32 per cent) will be attending or hosting a Halloween
party. This compares to just five per cent of the over-55s who are dressing up and
seven per cent who are going to or hosting a Halloween party.

The charity’s focus is borne out by [Tesco’s statistics](http://www.tescoplc.com/index.asp?pageid=17&newsid=1234).
It says that, at this Halloween, it will sell more than 200,000 glow in the dark
fangs, 170,000 tubes of fake blood, 170,000 witch hats and 150,000 witch brooms.

 

## 5. Givey Halloween

Online giving platform [Givey ](http://www.givey.com)is running a daily Halloween
competition for charities. Send a tweet this week to @giveyhq with your favourite
Givey charity and tag #giveyatreat for a chance to win one of their daily donations.

 

 

## Halloween and safety

Halloween isn’t fun for everyone – and that’s not just people who work night shifts
and are in bed when the door is knocked by trick-or-treaters.

Tesco has issued [safety advice about children’s Halloween costumes](https://www.tescotalkingshop.com/2015/10/scare-safe-this-halloween/)
and the risk of them catching fire, and **Battersea Dogs and Cats Home** is reminding
us to keep animals and pets safe and away from the noise of both Halloween and Bonfire
Night.

The dangers of potentially lethal electrical appliances is also being highlighted
at Halloween by Electrical Safety First, the only charity in the UK dedicated to
reducing deaths and injuries caused by electrical accidents.

![Killer Lurking - safety game at Halloween](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/
uploads/2015/10/killer-lurking-halloween-game.jpg)

It has launched an interactive game, [A Killer Lurking](http://www.akillerlurking.com/),
created by Code Computerlove. It challenges UK consumers to identify potential lethal
appliances by tapping the areas of the screen. You have 30 seconds to find all of
the potential culprits.

Emma Apter, head of communications at [Electrical Safety First](http://www.electricalsafetyfirst.org.uk/),
said:

“Alongside some spooky Halloween messages, facts about the real horrors of ignorance
around product recalls pop up throughout the experience, highlighting statistics
around fires or accidents caused by faulty fridges and freezers, TVs and innocent
looking small appliances like kettles that could result in electrocution or an electrical
fire.”

 

## More from charities at Halloween

If your charity isn’t fundraising at Halloween it can still make the most of public
interest with a Halloween-related initiative. Here is RSPCA explaining how to photograph
your black cat:

 

Similarly Cats Protection took advantage of #BlackCatDay on Thursday to dispel some
myths around black cats:

 

Prostate UK also joined the conversation about cats with this appropriate image 
and tweet:

> Cats may have nine lives, but men don't. Grow a Mo and Save a Bro. [#Movember](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Movember?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> [#NationalCatDay](https://twitter.com/hashtag/NationalCatDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> [@TheMustacheCat](https://twitter.com/TheMustacheCat?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/n0PGVQ6hza](https://t.co/n0PGVQ6hza)
> — Prostate Cancer UK (@ProstateUK) [October 29, 2015](https://twitter.com/ProstateUK/status/659776950525960192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

 

**• Have you got an effective or unusual Halloween fundraising campaign? Share it
in the comments below.**