The Justgiving Blog

Here at JG we’ve long been impressed by the efforts of Team SMARTies. They’re doing a very original driving challenge and have been enormously successful with our widget. Here’s their story.

Who We
Are: Andrew McGill and Natalya
Jagger 

What we are
doing:

Over the August bank holiday
weekend (25^th -27^th) we will be taking part in a charity
event in memory of Andrew’s daughter, Rose Emma McGill. Our team will be known
as "Team SMARTies" and consists of Andrew, as the driver, & Natalya, as the
navigator. We will be travelling 1,000 miles around the UK in a SMART Roadster
Brabus Coupe and wearing SMART attire – think ballgowns and top hat and tails!
The target is to raise 5,000 pounds. To
sponsor us just visit www.justgiving.com/rosemcgill

About
Rose:

Rose was an up and coming designer
and was featured at the New Designers Exhibition in June 2006. Sadly, that same
month the family was devastated when Rose was diagnosed with a Grade 4 malignant
brain tumour. Following surgery to remove the tumour treatment was started
straight away, and, on 26th October
2006 Rose graduated with honours from
Liverpool Hope University. Just
two weeks later Rose was admitted to hospital and sadly passed away on
11th November
2006. We are hoping to raise money for
Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology, Wirral where Rose received her radiotherapy
and chemotherapy.

Our Fundraising Techniques:
 

Thanks to the web we have
been able to spread the word about our fundraising efforts in loads of ways!

First of all we have used the
Justgiving Widget in our own blogs, our website and many of our friends have
also placed the widget on their sites too. That means we get bonus clicks
through here, over there, on here and many other places
too! To help people get the correct code we have a section on our website where
you can find all the widgets and the codes you need to add them to your website
or blog.

Ruth, a special friend of ours,
really grasped the online fundraising idea when she started THIS
campaign. Through her blog, Ruth decided to write a post
saying “we will donate a further 50p a
comment on this post up to a limit of £25… so come on folks…….WE NEED 50
COMMENTS….it’ll only take a moment of your time”. As the comments
came flooding in, Andrew, Rose’s Father offered to donate 50p for comments 51 to
100. It really brought our little blogging community together and it took just
a few days to reach over 100 comments. A fabulous idea that worked so
well!

For Easter, Ruth and Claire launched The Easter Bunnies Egg Hunt. Anyone
could take part all they had to do was click on this little
guy:

Whenever they saw him he would
transport them to a Blog or Site which contained the answer to the question that
had been set. There was also an Easter Craft competition and an Easter Joke
contest! Participants had the option of donating £2 to Rose’s Tribute Fund and we raised a fantastic £123! We hope to do
many more online events like these as they are so enjoyable and a great way to
keep Rose’s memory alive and bring attention to the work of Clatterbridge Cancer
Campaign.

We found another great way to let
people know about our fundraising efforts and the items we have up for Auction was to make a post
on websites that we use. With the permission of the site owners we made posts here,
on here,
over there and various
other sites.

Ways people can help:

Make a donation
- Just go to www.justgiving.com/rosemcgill

Make a bid
on OUR AUCTION
ITEMS

Donate an
Auction item/s - Businesses and/or individuals
can donate Auction items in return for special thanks on the car. We already
have various items for Auction on our website and the Liverpool FC autographed
football recently sold for £250!

Display our
Justgiving Widget – Do you have a website/blog or
other web based ‘thing’? Displaying our Justgiving Widget could help us generate
further interest in our fundraising and the work of Clatterbridge Cancer
Campaign

All of the Code
needed to display the Widgets can be found in our HELP US section on our website