Online auction is live!

We are approaching the end of the Lymphoma Association's anniversary year and today the final fundraising campaign went live.  Let's hope it raises lots of money!

Lymphoma Association homepage

eBay for Charity homepage (top)

eBay for Charity homepage (bottom)

Update (19.12.2011): The auction raised over £2,500.00.

eBay for Charity Auction

The Lymphoma Association's eBay for Charity auction I am managing is going live on 8th December 2011. The prizes are final and the graphics have been signed off (thanks to Chase Marketing for working pro-bono on this project).

This banner will be used on the eBay homepage as a taster and link through to the eBay for Charity auction pages. 

eBay Homepage Banner

The following banners will all be used on the eBay for Charity homepage as a link through to the auction prizes. The banners rotate to showcase each of the prizes.  We are offering 4 packages, so have designed two main banners each featuring two prizes, and a smaller spotlight banner promoting all 4 prizes.

eBay for Charity Spotlight Banner

The first banner features the Emmerdale and High Society packages.

Main eBay for Charity banner for Emmerdale and High Society packages

The second banner features the football and formula one packages.

Main eBay for Charity banner for Football and F1 packages

Chase Marketing very kindly produced this graphic to use in our e-marketing and on promotional websites as an extra to the initial artwork they agreed.  It features all 4 prize packages.

e-Marketing banner

Finally, I designed and produced the graphic below to use on the Lymphoma Association's homepage when the auction goes live in a few days.

Banner for Lymphoma Association website

I'm now looking forward to the launch and getting the bidding under way.

Golf dinner

I attended the Welwyn Garden City Golf Club annual dinner yesterday to collect a cheque from Club Captain Keith Travers.

At the dinner with Keith Travers, Captain

The club, who chose the Lymphoma Association as their charity of the year in memory of Keith's mum raised over £7000 throughout the year at various events and raffles.

Thank you speech

After the dinner I made a thank you speech on behalf of the charity.

Photos courtesy of www.maximsdisco.co.uk.

Lymphoma Matters article

Lymphoma Matters is the Lymphoma Association's quarterly newsletter.

An article I wrote has been published in the autumn edition. I manage the charity's tribute fund programme, this article talks about one of the funds and how it has helped the fund holder in her journey after her husband died.

Click here to read the published article.

Mayor Making Ceremony

On Friday (20th May) I attended the Mayor Making Ceremony for Aylesbury Town.  The Lymphoma Association was one of the Mayor's chosen charities for 2010-2011, a partnership I managed. 

The Mayor presented me with a cheque for £1000, but he actually raised over £2000 during the year (some money already received by the charity).  I made an acceptance and thank you speech.   

The Speech

As a small momento of Graham's year as Mayor I presented him with 'The Mayor's Little Purple (not mauve) Book of Lymphoma Association Memories'.  This related to his constant use of the work mauve rather than purple when talking about our brand! As you can see he was very touched!

The Mayor and his book with me!

 Aylesbury Town Council commented in their press article:

Amie Hill, from Lymphoma Association, one of the Mayor’s charities for 2010-11, thanked Graham for all that he had done for the Aylesbury based charity, including dying his beard purple, skydiving and stacking shelves, and presented him with a Lymphoma Association ‘purple’ book as a light hearted memento of all that he had done for the Lymphoma Association. The other Mayor’s charity for 2010-11 was PACE.

CRM 2011: MAYDOR

I am currently working with a company called MAYDOR on a six month cause-related-marketing promotion.

MAYDOR have created a range of bespoke skincare products to feature in their collection. Initially 50 pence from each product sold will be donated to the Lymphoma Association.

The webpage and labels have been approved and we are ready to launch.

New fundraising micro-site

In 2010 I began working on a micro-site for our flagship fundraising event, the Great British Tea Break (GBTB).

The objective of the micro-site is to introduce a virtual fundraising element to the event, which I piloted in 2009 on the Lymphoma Association’s online shop.

I am really pleased with the outcome, some of the pages are featured below.

Homepage

Your donations

Tea Breaks

The website is now live and ready to launch. During 2011 I will do a series of soft launches. The first was for the Royal Wedding and a new competition is coming very soon!

www.greatbritishteabreak.org.uk

Match Day Programme #2

Another Stevenage Football Club match and the same supporters as last year asked me to write another article for the programme this year.

The Benham's sponsored the match in aid of the Lymphoma Association to help raise awareness of the cancer. You can read the short article below (this year it was published word for word!).

Today the Institute of Copywriting awarded me the Diploma in Copywrititng with Merit.  This entitles me to use the initials Dip CW (Inst. CW) after my name and the following logos on websites and promotional materials etc.

GBTB - Tamzin Outhwaite

Tamzin Outhwaite, former Eastenders actress and star of Sweet Charity, agreed to front our Great British Tea Break (GBTB) fundraising campaign this year.

The competition to win afternoon tea with Tamzin Outhwaite was open to anyone holding a GBTB for the Lymphoma Association between September and December 2010.

Lucky winner Alison and I enjoyed afternoon tea at luxury 5 star hotel, The Athenaeum, in Mayfair. Afternoon tea was just fabulous and Tamzin was very friendly and good company.

Thanks to Tamzin Outhwaite and The Athenaeum the GBTB raised £12,000 during 2010 (the highest amount since the fundraising event began in 2005).

It has been a pleasure working with Tamzin Outhwaite and her PA.