• Plant-based cocktail party, dinner, BBQ or food and wine tasting.
• Movie screening or a games/trivia night.
• Vegan bake sale.
• Art/photographic exhibition.
• Plant-based cooking competition, like Master Chef.
• Party night and sell vegan friendly products.
• A raffle or silent auction (this could be added to any of the above!)

Simply head to Facebook here and click ‘Create a Fundraiser’, and you will be guided through the steps so that your online community can see and contribute to your fundraiser.

• Donate a percentage from the sale of vegan friendly products or services from your business.
• Develop a product or service and donate your fee e.g. odd jobs, dog walking, pet minding, gardening, teach a musical instrument, host a cruelty free cooking lessons or hold a car wash.
• Sell your unwanted goods on ebay, at a market or garage sale. Team up with others and collect goods from friends and family.
• Add Edgar’s Mission to your Workplace Giving Program and sign up.
• Create your own raffle and sell tickets at work or at your fundraising events.*

* If you plan to hold a raffle or public fundraising event for Edgar’s Mission, please complete our fundraising agreement below so that we can approve your activity and endorse you as an official Edgar’s Mission fundraiser.

• Set up a piggy bank or swear jar at home.
• Keep an Edgar’s Mission collection tin at your workplace, or ask a business you know to keep one.
• Collect gold coin donations at work for doing lunch and coffee runs or participating in theme days, e.g. bring your dog or wear your PJs to work.
• Create a Kindness Challenge snack box where you and your colleagues can share home grown fruit and vegetables, vegan snacks or baking for a gold coin donation.

Ideas include:

• A physical challenge such as a marathon, walkathon (with your animals), dance-a-thon or ride-a-thon – join a public event or create your own with some friends.
• Sign up for the 30 day Vegan Easy Challenge.
• Give up something for a month.
• Dye your hair a bright colour or shave your head.

• Hold a movie or disco night.
• Have a free dress day.
• Hold a fashion show with clothes donated from your parent’s wardrobe (with their permission, of course!)

Whether you sign up for a single or regular donation, donate in memory of a loved one, or sponsor a rescued animal, your donation will go a long way to helping Edgar’s Mission. Learn More.

Edgar’s Mission will send the Fundraiser an authorisation letter confirming Edgar’s Mission involvement when Edgar’s Mission has received a written and signed application and is satisfied that the activity;

• Will produce a reasonable amount of funds raised after expenses have been deducted (total expenses must be less than 30% of gross funds raised).
• Fits in with the promotional objectives of Edgar’s Mission.
• Is not high risk or controversial.
• Will not conflict with other Edgar’s Mission schedule activities
• Addresses all issues relating to public liability, permits, and other legal and safety requirements.
• Doesn’t contain any sexually explicit material, adult services or products or pornography of any kind.
• Fits in with the aims and values of Edgar’s Mission including that it:
  • Does not raise funds through the use or sale of animals or animal products, including meat, eggs, dairy, leather or wool.
  • Does not raise funds through the use of products that have been tested on animals. All cosmetics must be accredited by Choose Cruelty Free.

We also require you to inform of us any sponsorship you may be seeking or celebrities that you wish to approach. This is to ensure that our current sponsors and celebrities do not receive additional requests for support and to minimise the risk of multiple fundraisers approaching the same sponsor or celebrity.

The Fundraiser is not authorised to use the name of Edgar’s Mission as its beneficiary charity until they have received their ‘Authority to Fundraise’ letter.

Edgar’s Mission reserves the right to withdraw approval to fundraise at any time, should it be necessary. If this were to occur, all fundraising and promotion must cease immediately and the fundraising authorisation letter and all monies raised must be returned to Edgar’s Mission within 7 days.

The activity shall be conducted in the Fundraiser’s name and is the sole responsibility of the Fundraiser.

As we have limited resources, external fundraising activities must be self-reliant with Edgar’s Mission acting in a facilitation role only.

• Provide Edgar’s Mission with an accurate estimate of the income and expenditure associated with your activity.
• Keep accurate financial records.
• Provide funds raised and details of your actual income and expenditure to Edgar’s Mission within 4 weeks of the activity.

When advertising your fundraising activity, we recommend that all of your communications (such as flyers, brochures, letters, media releases, etc) about this activity clearly specify:

• The purpose of the fundraising activity, including the specific appeal toward which donations will be attributed or that “Proceeds will be donated to Edgar’s Mission, for its work,” and
• State that Edgar’s Mission is not involved in the organisation of your fundraising activity by including the following statement:

[Your name] supports the work of Edgar’s Mission [by raising funds for name of appeal].  Edgar’s Mission is grateful for the support of [your name] but is not actively involved in this fundraising initiative.

Edgar’s Mission cannot pay expenses incurred by the Fundraiser, however the Fundraiser can deduct necessary expenses from the proceeds of your activity (total expenses must be less than 30% of gross funds raised).

Net funds raised from the fundraising activity are to be forwarded to Edgar’s Mission as a lump sum in the form of a cheque or money order made out to Edgar’s Mission, or as an electronic transfer directly into the nominated Edgar’s Mission bank account. Net proceeds must be forwarded to Edgar’s Mission within 4 weeks of the activity’s conclusion.

Please carefully consider the risks associated with collecting cash and, where possible, enable people to donate directly to us online by, for example, having a laptop set up at your fundraising event. Where you do receive cash, we recommend that you convert it to a bank cheque or money order as soon as possible.

Tax-deductible receipts will be issued to people donating funds of $2 or more and only in circumstances where the donation is a ‘deductible gift’, in terms of tax legislation. Refer to www.ato.gov.au.

Again, where possible, enable people to donate directly to us online in order to receive an automatic receipt by, for example, having a laptop set up at your fundraising event.

If taking cash or cheques payments, it is the Fundraiser’s responsibility to keep a register of all people requesting a tax-deductible receipt. The register must be in the format of a Microsoft Office Excel document, including name, address, city, state, post code (business addresses are also acceptable and in that case positions/titles and company will also be required)  and must be forwarded to Edgar’s Mission by email or other agreed format.

For those listed on the register – individual receipts will be issued and sent to the individual requesting the receipt once funds have been received by Edgar’s Mission and cleared in the bank account.

Please note that Edgar’s Mission cannot provide receipts to supporters for non-tax-deductible items such as ticket purchases, entry to an event, donations of goods or services, raffle tickets and auction purchases. Refer to www.ato.gov.au.