We will help you achieve your Cycle a Difference ride sponsorship target. When you sign up for the ride we’ll provide you with a fund raising pack, but here are some ideas! You can email us for more information at info@cycle-a-difference.com

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Make your own JustGiving page linked to the Newborns Vietnam JustGiving website – like the Cycle-a-Difference Raffle page at www.justgiving.com/CaD-Raffle – or better!
This is a great way to help you manage your personal fundraising for Cycle-a-Difference, to share what you are doing and to send your own message to potential supporters.
It doesn’t cost you anything, and it allows people to donate online and by text. It shows you at a glance how much you have raised, it has lots of management functions, for example managing the gift aid and automatically thanking donors, and it links to twitter and facebook.
We will provide you with as much help as you want to personalize your page. We can provide you with our logos and pictures, or if 'IT' really isn’t your scene – we’ll build the page for you! Just let us know what you want by emailing us at info@cycle-a-difference.com

Home Collection Box

Make a simple and eye-catching home collection box. It’s very easy to make out of a Pringles box with a paper cover, which we provide, which gives information about the Cycle a Difference ride and Newborns Vietnam, and which we can personalise with your name.
Use it to put all your small change in – make them for colleagues, friends and family and ask them to do the same!
Put one on your desk at work! Ask your local cycle shop to put one on their counter! Invite all your spare change box supporters to a fun a grand counting fun night! Invite your local bank’s business manager to do the count! Tell the local press!
Click here to download instructions on how to make the collection box.
Click here to download the standard design for the box.
Click here to download an example of a personalised design. Email us at info@cycle-a-difference.com and let us know your name and any other details you want on your box, and we will make a personalised design for you!
You will need to take your spare change to your local big supermarket and put in their change machine to convert to funds that can be used to make a donation on line via Just Giving or at the bank.

No Lunch on Wednesdays

This is a very simple idea to help you raise your sponsorship. The average person spends around £5 per a day on lunch and coffees.
If you make your own lunch and go without the coffees every Wednesday for six months you would raise £130.

If 10 friends or colleagues join you in No Lunch on Wednesday you could raise £1,300! If 20 colleagues and friends join you could raise £2,600 of your £3000 sponsorship. This is such a simple idea share it with your family, if your sister, mother, aunts did their own No Lunch on a Wednesday then the skys the limit. Click here to download your Lunch a Difference donation record form, which you could also use as a poster in your office kitchen to keep track of your progress.

Lunch a difference to support the Cycle a Difference Vietnam challenge ride.

Inspire Support

Preterm birth is the leading direct cause of neonatal deaths worldwide and accounts for around 1,044,000 newborn deaths globally each year.
Every mile you cycle will change the life chances of thousands of babies in Vietnam, You are doing something simply amazing so make sure you tell everyone you know. To help you spread the word send this e-card with your own message – download pdf.

“Only 900 grams but I made it” designed for Newborns Vietnam by Clare Humphreys.
‘My thoughts as, I developed this drawing was to create a card that symbolizes – a journey of hope and the gift of life, my son was 3.5kilos when he was born so the title of the sketch was based on photograph of a Vietnamese premature baby that struck a chord with me. I hope the card will help the Cycle a Difference ride participants inspire their family, friends and colleagues to support them to meet their fundraising target.”
Clare is a talented freelance illustrator she trained at University of Plymouth and has recently worked on images for Juice Lubes and Velobrands. Clare is also mother to 9 month-old Thomas who is now a healthy happy baby but his first week of life was not so rosy and he spent a few days in a neonatal care unit. This experience together with her travels in Vietnam provided the inspiration for this drawing.

Static Bike Fundraising

A good way to raise funds would be too set up a static bike challenge with your friends.
Ask if you can set up your static bike in your local shopping centre or sports centre tell the local press!
Between you and your friends you could relay ride the one bike 200 to 300 miles in a day, riders who have finished or are waiting their turn can get interest passers by in Cycle a Difference and get them to donate lose change to help this great cause.
This is a good way to draw attention to your challenge ride and to raise funds while getting fitter. Raise funds and train and the same time!

Bake a Difference

Bake and sell cupcakes – all you need is flour, sugar and eggs, sell your creations at work, host a tea party or bake for friends to fill their freezers.
Organise a cupcake challenge competition invite a local chef to be the judge!
Make cupcakes for sale at guides, brownies, school and a host of other events.
Ask all your friends to bake and sell!
If you are not an expert or an enthusiast, do not worry help is at hand, our resident Cycle a Difference cupcake guru Emma will help you with ideas and tips, contact Emma via her website: www.teainthecity.co.uk.
Email us at info@cyle-a-difference.com for recipes and posters to advertise your cupcake sale.
All you need to be a success is lots of hungry mouths!