Fundraising

Hate crime affects us all and we need your on-going support to raise awareness and help us challenge and prevent hate crime in our communities.

Our primary focus is to support three acts of remembrance in April each year to mark the annivesaries of the London Nail Bomb attacks on Brixton, Brick Lane and Soho as well as organising a much larger Candle-lit Vigil against Hate Crime in October.

These events are important because they enable people to come together and remember those that have been lost and injured, whilst at the same time providing us all with an opportunity to work together, to build better relationships within our communities and support the work that is being done by many people to tackle hate crime.

We are run entirely by volunteers, so every penny that you donate to us goes back into organising the vigil and the acts of remembrance. We really need your help to make tackling hate crime more visible by supporting us by making a contribution.

There are many ways in which you can contribute your support the 17-24-30 No to Hate Crime Campaign.

Get involved

There are many ways in which you can support our work; add your voice to one of our campaigns or projects; tell us your views or organise an event to raise funds; volunteer some of your time to get involved with the campaign and help us with the logistics of each event; come along to the acts of remembrance and the vigils against hate crime.

Download our fundraising pack.

Social networking

Become a Fan, Follow and Watch US. Support our current campaigns through your social networking profile. We are on Facebook and regularly Tweet on Twitter and have some videos on YouTube. You can follow us and retweet our messages to raise awareness of our work and let people know you support our campaign.

Facebook – 17-24-30
Twitter – HateCrimeVigil
YouTube – 172430hatecrimevigil

Donations Welcome

If you would like to make a donation Charities Trust donation page.

The Candle-lit vigil against hate crime costs around £8,000 to host and we are committed to keeping this a free and open event supported by your donations. If everyone who attended the vigil could donate a couple of pounds towards the costs of the event it would make a big difference to what we could organise.

And there are also ways that you can donate to the campaign without costing you a penny.

Donate at no cost to you

Are you an avid shopper or do you do lots of searches on the internet?

You can help raise money for 17-24-30 No to Hate Crime Campaign at the same time as doing these activities.

Do you like Shopping – use the following link and online retailers will donate a percentage of your final sale back to us. www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/172430

Internet searching done through www.everyclick.co.uk raises money for us too, log on to everyclick and choose 17-24-30 No to Hate Crime Campaign as your preferred charity and we will receive money when you search the internet.

Go green and recycle your old mobile phones and printer cartridges and donate the money to 17-24-30 No to Hate Crime Campaign.

Fundraisers Needed

This year we are looking to set up a fundraising team, we are looking for a couple of people who have fundraising experience to help us develop a fundraising strategy. To help us gain corporate backing, apply for grants and to raise money by organising fundraising events.

Community Support (Bars and Clubs Partnership)

We are currently looking for bars and clubs to hold fundraising events.

We want to find a way to work with you throughout the year as well as to help promote your on-going events and activities to our supporters. There are many ways you can help support 17-24-30 No to Hate Campaign which might range from displaying a collection tin to holding benefit nights; to purchasing our T-Shirts and having staff wear these on the evening of the Vigil and donating a percentage of the proceeds to 17-24-30 No to Hate Campaign.

For more information on this partnership scheme then please contact info@17-24-30.org

Corporate Support

Your business can really play a big part to help us host the vigil. This can be done by holding fundraising events and campaigns with proceeds going directly to us. Download a copy of our fundraising pack which has lots of useful information for you to consider from Payroll Giving to Project or Core Support.

Project support

Your company can help us make a real difference to the lives of people affected by Hate Crime by directly supporting our work. You can choose to support a specific project relevant to your business or your marketing priorities.

Core support

If you are interested in our work more generally, core funding is invaluable to us and provides us with more flexibility to develop our policy work and respond to the most important issues as they arise. You could, for example, agree to make a small donation for every product or service sold.

Staff fundraising

Staff fundraising is fun, simple and effective, as well as a great way of raising money for 17-24-30 No to Hate Campaign. By supporting your staff to fundraise you can:

Engage staff to work together for a common cause
Improve awareness of Hate Crimes among your staff
Develop staff members’ personal and professional skills
Double the efforts of your employees by providing matched funding!

We can provide help and resources to support your fundraising activities

Support our website

Our Vigil was attended by 10,000 people in 2009 and our website and facebook group has thousands of unique visitors. If you’d like to see your company’s name on our website and place your brand in a prime marketing position, get in touch to learn more!

Media Partners

We are looking Digital and Print media partners to help publicise the event and our work throughout the year. For press releases, event information or to interview one of our trustees then please contact mark@17-24-30.org

Email info@17-24-30.org if you wish to become a corporate supporter or for further information.

A to Z of fundraising ideas

We welcome your ideas, and over the course of the next few months we are going to list as many ideas here as we can.