A HANDY GUIDE
TO FUNDRAISING
FOR SEA CADETS
2 CONTENTS
3What supporting
Sea Cadets means
4 Where your money goes
5 Fundraising checklist
6 Raising money online
7–8 Quick, easy and fun ideas
9–10 Sea Cadets quiz
11 Poster
12 Sponsorship form
14 Paying in slip
WELCOME FUNDRAISING SUPERSTARS!
We are thrilled that you have chosen to join the
challenge and are supporting Sea Cadets. The charity
achieves amazing things for 14,000 young people
across the UK in 400 units. Wherever you are, you are
never that far from water or a Sea Cadet!
The money you raise will help us to give these
youngsters a great head start in life. We believe
that it’s through the unique combination of nautical
adventure and fun that we can do that best, helping
them grow in confidence, independence and ability
as they climb through the ranks.
We’ve put together this fundraising guide which is
packed with ideas that will inspire you and raise lots
of cash for Sea Cadets!
Plus we’re here to help you. Please get in touch if
you need any help: [email protected]
3 WHAT SUPPORTING SEA CADETS MEANS
‘ Sea Cadets have become my
family since my mother passed
away – I know that they will
support me. They have helped
me to achieve so much.’
PO Simeon from Ross & Monmouth
HELP MAKE A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE WITH A LASTING
IMPACT TO THE LIVES OF YOUNG PEOPLE
As a Sea Cadet young people flourish, learn
key life skills and achieve qualifications in
a range of areas, all of which boosts their
confidence as they prepare for the rest of
their lives.
Sea Cadets offers a chance to broaden life
experiences – whether that’s challenges
and experiences like rowing around the UK,
sailing on a tall ship, crewing a yacht around
the Scottish islands (most of which is heavily
subsidised) or meeting weekly to work
together at their unit. It gives them a chance
to explore their abilities and test their skills,
as they work together as a team.
We’re tackling the serious issue of NEETs,
(those not in education, employment or
training) by helping young people into further
education and onto career pathways in a
range of areas including but not exclusively
the Royal Navy, and the wider maritime
sector, through the incredible experiences
and guidance they gain with us.
Based in towns and cities across the UK,
our cadets make an incredible contribution
to the lives of local communities, helping at
events, working with different generations
and encouraging a sense of civic pride in all
that they do.
Our incredible volunteer support offers
valuable role models and mentors for young
people, and our units provide a sense of
family and belonging. We are often a lifeline
to young people who are bullied at school,
offering stability and security to those
in foster care and we are a pathway to
meaningful careers and further education for
those that struggle at school.
4 WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES
£33 pays for a cadet’s meals for a week onboard and helps
–
keep them focused on their sailing duties onboard a life changing
offshore voyage
£50 will help pay for the heating of a unit
– £125 will pay for a vital safety harness
– £230 will pay to weatherproof a cadet with a foul weather
–
jacket and trousers
£270 will help a young person spend a week at sea learning vital life
–
skills and boosting their confidence
–
£2,500 will buy a new boat for a unit
5 FUNDRAISING CHECKLIST
HOW DO WE LET
PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT
THE EVENT?
– This is really important – the event’s
success depends on people knowing
about it and supporting it – so tell
everyone!
– One of the easiest and most effective
ways to promote the event will be
on Facebook (and it’s free!). Making
an event and getting all the cadets
to invite their friends and family will
spread the word. You can also use
the Facebook event page to keep
people updated and to link to your
online giving page.
– Use the poster in this pack to put up
in your local community or at work.
HOW DO WE RAISE LOTS OF MONEY?
– To raise lots of money you need to get lots – You can use the sponsorship form
of sponsors, so ask away! Friends, family,
included in this pack, but it’s also a
teachers – these are all people who can
good idea to set up an online giving
help you fundraise for a great cause in your
page (see p6) which can then be shared
local community. Every little helps and any
on Facebook and Twitter. This makes it
donation – big or small – is really important.
really easy for people to donate.
– You could contact your local
newspaper or radio station and let
them know about the event. If they
report on your special event it will
encourage people to come and
donate as well as getting some
great publicity.
– Invite parents, friends, family,
neighbours – everyone! – to come
and support you in your fundraising
event or activity. If there is space –
the more the merrier!
6 RAISING MONEY ONLINE
MAKE THE MOST OF
SOCIAL MEDIA
Social media sites (such as Facebook, Twitter and
Instragram) are a great way to share your online
fundraising page with your friends and colleagues and
makes it easy for them to share it with the people they
know, giving you a lot more bang for your buck!
Setting up an online fundraising page
and promoting it using social media is
quick, easy and very effective.
You can tell tonnes of people about your fundraising
event with the click of a button.
You can instantly reach a wide
audience who can donate in a simple
and secure way.
GETTING STARTED
– JustGiving and Virgin Money Giving
are both online giving websites that
collect donations and Gift Aid for a
small percentage of the funds raised.
– Once your event has finished we
receive the money and get in touch
to say thank you for your efforts, it’s
that easy!
Find out more about JustGiving,
JustTextGiving, and Virgin Money
Giving. Be aware that some sites charge
you for using them so please read the
terms and conditions before signing up.
Make your fundraising total stand out from the crowd
with Social media.
STAND OUT FROM
THE CROWD
REMEMBER TO STAY
SAFE ONLINE
– The key to a successful fundraising
page is to make it stand out.
– Think carefully before posting your personal details
online, including photographs.
– Tell people why you are fundraising and
use photos or a video.
– Do not post photographs or videos of children
without their parents’ consent
– Include examples of what Sea Cadets
could do with the money to encourage
your donors to give that little bit extra.
– Do not post personal information about other
people without their permission, this includes
photos and videos.
– Always try to think of a good password when
creating accounts online, a mixture of letters and
numbers is best.
7 QUICK, EASY AND FUN IDEAS
These ideas are totally flexible, requiring
minimal organisation. They each have a
competitive edge that can elevate them
from the ordinary to the extraordinary.
HAVE A BAKE SALE
GET CAR WASHING
SUPERMARKET BAG PACK
Get everyone you know to put their
cooking skills to the test and bring
something yummy to contribute. Then
sell your cakes and cookies to raise
some money. This is also a great
excuse to eat some delicious desserts!
Advertise to all of your parents,
grandparents, neighbours etc. that
the unit will be providing car washing
services – perhaps at the weekend.
Charge people a small fee to get their
car looking shiny and new.
This is a popular fundraiser for Sea Cadet
units across the UK and often they can
raise as much as £1,000 in one session.
You will need to get permission from the
local store manager and it’s a great idea
to work with your local Sea Cadets.
COMMUNITY EVENTS
JUMBLE SALE
QUIZ NIGHT
Does your town have an annual or
special event, like a duck race or boat
race, can you enter a team and get
sponsored?
Dig out all the stuff in your house you
don’t want, and ask friends and family
to help too. Sell it at a local jumble sale
or car boot.
MUFTI FRIDAY (OR
DRESS DOWN FRIDAY)
FANCY DRESS NIGHT
We’ve put together some categories
and questions to help get you started
on the following pages, (pages 12 &
13) but you may want to add a few
more questions or create your own
categories, whatever works for you!
You could host a quiz at your unit and
invite friends and family to join in and
charge each team a small entrance fee.
See if you can get someone to donate
a prize for the winners.
Designate a Friday (or another day
if preferable) as a dress down day.
Staff pay a £1 to participate.
Have a fancy dress night, pick and
theme or let everyone choose their
own and charge each person a small
fee. There could be a prize for the best
dressed cadet and instructor.
8 QUICK, EASY AND FUN IDEAS
SEA CADET GALA CAKE RECIPE
Don’t forget our Sea Cadets’ Birthday on 25 June! And we now have a specially designed
and delicious cake to be at the centre of your fundraising party. Here’s the recipe made
exclusively for us by Fiona Cairns, Royal Wedding cake maker extrordinaire!:
To make the Victoria Sponge
1. Preheat the oven to 180ºc/ fan 170 / 350/
gas mark 4
2. Take 2 x 20 cm sandwich tins. Butter the
tins, and then line the bases with baking
parchment. Line the sides with a 7cm high
collar of baking parchment as well, to allow
for the rise. For this batter, I use an electric
mixer and beater attachment, but use a food
processor, or a bowl and an electric whisk, if
you want.
3. Sift the flour and the baking powder into
the bowl, then add the butter (in knobs), the
eggs, sugar and vanilla. Beat together until
thoroughly blended, taking care not to overmix, so you will have a light sponge. Scrape
the batter into the tins and level the top.
4. Bake for 30-35 minutes, until the cake
springs back to the touch or a skewer
inserted into the centre comes out clean.
5. Remove from the oven and leave for a
couple of minutes, then run a knife around
the rim to loosen the cake from the tin and
turn out on to a wire rack. Peel off the paper
and leave until completely cold.
To make the coloured buttercreams
1. To make the coloured buttercreams. In
an electric mixer, beat the butter until
really pale and fluffy, then add the icing
sugar and beat for at least 5 minutes,
until light and creamy.
2. Divide the buttercream equally between
4 bowls. Make the raspberry puree
by gently warming the fruits in a small
saucepan, crushing with a fork, then
sieving to remove the pips. Allow to
cool. Make the blueberry puree in the
same way, adding 1 tbsp water to the
pan. Add the raspberry puree to 1 bowl
of buttercream, the blueberry puree to
another and the lemon curd to the third.
Finally add the lime zest and juice and a
little green food colour to the last.
3. Take your Victoria sponges and split
them horizontally. Spread a different
buttercream between each of the 4
layers, topping with the blueberry.
4. Place the cake on its stand. Arrange the
flags and windmills over the top and
attach the bunting to the stand with the
sticky tape.
For the sponge
350g unsalted butter, softened,
plus more for the tin
350g self-raising flour
2 tsp baking powder
6 eggs, lightly beaten
350g golden caster sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
For the buttercream
300g unsalted butter, softened
400g icing sugar, sifted
80g raspberries
80g blueberries
4 tablespoons lemon curd
Zest 1 lime, finely grated and juice of ½ lime
Green food colouring
Decorating
Tube of glue
Scraps of contrasting ribbon and paper
8 cocktail sticks
180cm 5mm-wide ribbon (or enough to
wrap twice round your cake stand)
2 paper windmills
1 roll double-sided sticky tape
For the flags
Glue the scraps of ribbon and paper on
to the cocktail sticks. To make the bunting,
cut out paper triangles and glue them on
to the ribbon.
9 SEA CADETS QUIZ
ROUNDS
Get a group of friends or work colleagues together and enter into the competitive
spirit it with this quiz, combine it with a bake sale or BBQ and you’ve got a great
fundraising event on your hands!
Round 1: Sea Cadets History
Round 2: World of Water
Round 3: Creatures of the Deep
Round 4: Books and Films
Round 5: Sporting Stars
SEA CADETS HISTORY
Who has been learning their history?
1. How much did Queen Victoria donate to the forerunner of the Sea Cadets in 1899?
2.In what year did navy training brigades officially become the Navy League Sea
Cadet Corps? 1900, 1919, or 1930?
3. Who is the official patron of Sea Cadets?
4.When did girls first join the Sea Cadets replacing the Girls Nautical Training Corps?
1975, 1982 or 1995?
5. How many Sea Cadet units are there in the UK, to the nearest 50?
WORLD OF WATER
ANSWERS
1. £10
2. 1919
3. Her Majesty the Queen
4. 1982
5. 400
Who’s been paying attention in geography?
1. Which ocean is the largest in the world?
2.How deep is the Mariana trench, the deepest point in the Ocean?
Just under 5000m, 8000m or 11,000m?
3. What percentage of the Earth’s surface is covered by water?
4.Which area of the Atlantic Ocean is known for mysterious
disappearances of ships and aircraft?
5. What is the world’s largest living organism?
ANSWERS
1. The Pacific
2. Just over 11,000m
3. Around 70%
4. The Bermuda Triangle
5. The Great Barrier Reef, with a surface
area bigger than the whole of the UK
10 SEA CADETS QUIZ
SPORT
Have you heard about these
sporting legends?
CREATURES OF THE DEEP
FILMS AND BOOKS
Who knows their stuff when it
comes to sea creatures?
How much do you know about
these watery adventures?
1.Why do some sharks have to keep
moving all the time?
1.Complete the name of a popular
children’s series about sailing and
adventures: Swallows and ......?
2.How long can blue whales grow to?
20m, 33m or 40m?
3.What colour is an octopus’s blood?
2.In the Disney film Pirates in an
Adventure with Scientists, what did the
ship’s parrot actually turn out to be?
4.Which sea creature has the biggest
eyes in the animal kingdom – the
size of a beach ball!
3.What is the name of Jack Sparrow’s
ship in the first Pirates of the
Caribbean film?
5.What is unusual about the way sea
horses have babies?
4.In which novel by Robert Louis
Stevenson does the villain Long
John Silver appear?
ANSWERS
1. T
hey need water to flow past their gills
or they will suffocate and die
2. 3
3m, the length of three double-decker
buses!
3. Blue
4. A giant squid
5. It is the male sea horses who become
pregnant and give birth.
5.In which city does Nemo’s dad
finally find him?
ANSWERS
1. Amazons
2. A Dodo
3. The Black Pearl
4. Treasure Island
5. Sydney
1.Which British sailor broke the world
record for sailing solo around the
world in 2005?
2.Which British sailor has won four
consecutive Olympic gold medals?
3.How many medals did the GB
rowing team win at the London
2012 Olympics?
4.What’s the world record time for
holding your breath underwater? 12
minutes, 17 minutes or 22 minutes?
5.Australian-British swimmer Penny
Palfrey holds the world record for
the longest solo swim, how far did
she get in her 40 hour swim? 60km,
98km or 112km?
ANSWERS
1. Dame Ellen McArthur
2. Ben Ainslie
3. Nine – four gold, two silver and three
bronze
4. 22 minutes and 22 seconds –
set by German free-diver Tom Sietas
in June 2012
5. 112 km or almost 70 miles
HELP US RAISE
POUNDS FOR
SEA CADETS
DATE:
MY EVENT:
Patron: HM The Queen
Marine Society & Sea Cadets, a charity
registered in England and Wales
313013 and in Scotland SC037808
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CHARITY NAME: __________________________________
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Just complete the form below and return it to the unit,
together with your donation.
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due to you, you must include all your Gift Aid donations on your Self Assessment tax return or ask
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want the charity to claim Gift Aid on the donation detailed
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Gift Aid is claimed by the charity from the tax you pay for
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and/or Capital Gains Tax than the amount of Gift Aid claimed on all my
donations in that tax year it is my responsibility to pay any difference. Gift
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boosting your donation by 25p of Gift Aid for every £1 you donate and
your address is needed to identify you as a current UK tax payer.
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