How to Help our Charity
Thank you for your interest in raising money for Flying Scholarships for the Disabled. Through your fundraising efforts we hope you will not only help a very worthy cause but also have a lot of fun as well! Please click here to view and print off sponsorship forms in PDF format. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to do this. If you have not got this software please click here.
Louise Scotter, FSD 2005 Scholar, in a tandem Skydive for FSD with instructor Nicky Johnston
Your fundraising ideas
There are no hard and fast rules. Think of something you like doing, or would like to do, either on your own or as a member of a team. It could be a race of some kind, a skittles match, a stall at a village fete, a "bring and buy sale”, a whist drive, a coffee morning or an additional landing fee for a month at your nearest airfield. If you are an FSD scholar talk to a local club or charity about our scheme and your personal benefits of learning to fly would be a natural! What events take place where you live? Is there an opportunity to raise money for FSD at these? And what sport do you play - are there opportunities there? Literally anything goes!
Just try to ensure that whatever you dream up is achievable, not too time consuming and that it will create sufficient interest to attract sponsorship and if possible some publicity for FSD!
Finding Sponsors
The event itself is only half the work! The other half is to round up support and encourage people to sponsor you.
Click here to download printable sponsorship forms that you can use.
Think about all the potential sponsors that you know and that you could approach – your family, friends, and colleagues at work. How about fellow sportsmen along with people you regularly meet at your pub or club? Local firms could also be a good bet for sponsorships as could your local flying club among many other sympathetic groups.
Try for amounts per unit e.g. 50p per mile or per hour. That way, even if you don't achieve your ultimate objective, you will still be raising the sponsored amounts.
Make sure your potential sponsors know that FSD will be the beneficiary. Should they require more information about us ask them to visit this website.
Jon Rowland, a Thompson Fly second officer, ran the London Marathon for FSD in 4 hours and twenty eight minutes
Publicity
Before and after the event let your local newspapers and radio station know what you are doing /have achieved for FSD and have photographs taken as newspapers are more likely to publish your story if there is a picture. The more publicity we get the better!
Returning the donations to FSD
When you have collected all the sponsored amounts please send a cheque or postal order ( made payable to "Flying Scholarships for the Disabled" to:
The FSD Director
Douglas Bader House
Horcott Hill
Fairford
Gloucestershire GL7 4RB
Keep us informed
Please let us know what you are planning and if we can help at all by clicking here . And then tell us how you got on. Your story will be published in the News page of this website and whatever you have achieved will hopefully inspire others to follow suit! And do please send us some photographs – this new section to our website could do with a few more pictures!
FSD Video
We have a short video about the work of FSD which you can view or download here. If you would like a high resolution version on DVD or CD Rom to help you with your fundraising please contact us.
