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Five fundraising tweets for 11 October 2016
Howard Lake | 11 October 2016 | Blogs
Here is another selection of tweets for fundraisers – ideas, examples, humour, inspiration and occasionally plain quirky posts.
1. JustGiving’s million pages in nine months
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1 million pages have been created in 2016! THANK YOU to everyone who's raised money for great causes. You guys are incredible. #LifeChangers pic.twitter.com/S0E2DJTBdJ
— JustGiving (@JustGiving) October 7, 2016
2. Sir Terry Wogan Fundraiser of the Year?
Know a star BBC Children in Need fundraiser? Why not nominate them for the Sir Terry Wogan Fundraiser of the Year? https://t.co/FIVMcIKvIA pic.twitter.com/s6uul6olfe
— BBC Children in Need (@BBCCiN) October 11, 2016
3. Charity adverts in good company?
Just saw the new Nat West ad and was getting ready to text them a donation
— John Thompson, aka Johnny Five (@JTCHANGINGBIZ) October 8, 2016
4. On this day in fundraising history
#Fundraising history lesson!
— Russell Benson (@russellbenson) October 11, 2016
125 years ago today, the @RNLI held the first ever #charity collection.
https://t.co/LVXhbeHqq9
5. The simple ideas…
I ❤️ this simple use of digital… Businesses donate homepages to youth homelessness charity https://t.co/9d06fAOVyS #charity #CSR pic.twitter.com/T1IcZnAkIH
— Mandy Johnson (she/her) 🌈 (@MsMandyJ) October 10, 2016
- Meet the fundraiser – Geoff collects for Marie Curie (2 February 2017)
- Code changes to static collections now in force (23 October 2017)
- 14 charities hold house to house exemption orders in N Ireland (10 September 2018)
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.