Volunteering

Set up your own activity

Take a look at the detailed planning guide.

Organising your own activity can be great fun and a tremendous challenge! As well as raising a lot of money, an imaginative and well-organised activity can make people feel good about doing ‘their bit to help’.

However, if an activity is muddled and disorganised, it does not reflect well on the charity or the organisers.

• Consider the support that Bupa can offer you. They can supply you with a template to help you organise your activity and they may also be able to provide you with some financial support. Click here to find out how Community Connections can help financially with your activity.
• Focus on an activity which is achievable and which benefits the community and Bupa.
• Don't be afraid to start small - it's much easier to develop a small-scale activity than to scale down an over-ambitious and unworkable one. Everyone involved wants to be associated with success, so think small and grow when you are ready (don't bite off more than you can chew!).

Click on me for the detailed planning guide.

The main things you need to do when organising your own activity are:

1. Brainstorm your ideas
2. Ask yourself the key questions and use these questions to start your detailed planning.
3. Review your plan weekly. If it looks too complicated, change it to make it easier to manage.
4. Always measure how you’re doing – easy if it’s fund-raising, but try to keep tabs on your progress as you go along. Follow up all potential leads for support – phone calls, letters, newspaper articles, etc.
5. Report and communicate – make sure the Community Connections team is aware of what you are doing, so that we can make sure you get as much publicity as possible, within Bupa and in your local community. Click here to contact the Community Connections team.

Bupa Nursing Blackpool employees swapped their work clothes for bee costumes to raise £1,500 for charity. The bees buzzed around Blackpool collecting money for children's charities on behalf of Blackpool Sunrise Rotary Club