How to raise your funds

Before you volunteer you will need to raise some funds for travel expenses and to cover any costs incurred while volunteering. Plus it is highly advisable to have approximately £200-500 spare for emergency.

There are many ways to raise these funds:-

• Join just giving a website where you have your own webpage to tell people what you are doing and why you need to raise money. Many of the Ecoteer members have joined this site and it is a great way to collect money from friends, family and people looking to give money to people for a worthwhile purpose.
• Run/enter sponsorship events like a bike ride, marathon etc,
• Run an event for example a party before you go away. Invite all your friends charge £5 and organise a raffle and some games. Plus this is a great way to say goodbye to everybody before you go away. People have been known to raise over £800 from these events.
• Make sure you advertise what you are doing in a local paper any events you are organising etc. This will tell people who you have lost contact with.
• Car boot sales are a great way to de-clutter your house and your friends houses. You should make about £100 each car boot sale.
• Go to your local library and look at the ‘Fund finder’ directory. The directory lists grants which offer anything from £50 to £1000 for different purposes including travel, volunteer work and for furthering your education.