RECYCLING
You can help raise funds for Haven House by recycling printer cartridges, mobile phones, landline phones and computer hardware.
Haven House has arrangements in place with two companies who will recycle these items and pass on the recyclable value to the charity.
To recycle printer cartridges – contact Liz Evans at Takeback Ltd on 01842 821982 or email
info@takeback.ltd.uk
To recycle mobile & landline phones and computer hardware – contact Rosie at Aurom Environmental on 08707 102080 or
rosie@aurom.co.uk
CHALLENGES
We are always looking for adventurous people up for a challenge. Some challenges that people have already taken part in to raise money for Haven House are; running a marathon, parachuting, abseiling and even climbing Kilimanjaro!
For parachute jumping please see the Skyline website:
www.skylineevents.co.uk
If you, or someone you know, are taking part in a challenge and haven’t thought of a charity to raise sponsorship for please think about support us, we can supply T-shirts, sponsorship forms, posters and a lot of support.
AS PART OF A GROUP
If you are a member of a sports club, why not arrange a charity match? We can help you organise it
If you are a member of a community group, we'd be very pleased to come and talk at one of your meetings
Use one of your meetings as a fundraising event - we have loads of ideas to make the event go with a swing
Come as a group to one of our events - maybe you'd enjoy a singalong at an Old Time Music Hall, or get a team together for a game of golf?
AS A COMPANY
Adopt Haven House as your company's charity of the year. By encouraging your staff to organise fundraising events through the year, you can improve team working, and morale
Donate a raffle prize for us to raise money at one of our events
Offer to match £ for £ any funds raised by members of staff - giving them more of an incentive to support us, and work for you
Sponsor part (or all!) of one of our events - for example, the cost of hiring a hall for a fair, or the cost of the food at a fundraising dinner
Payroll Giving schemes are easy to set up, and provide your staff with the opportunity to make tax-efficient donations to the charity of their choice
Promote Haven House Foundation as your charity partner, gaining positive branding, and helping us advertise our events
Gifts in Kind are always useful. Whether it's office furniture, computers, or just some expertise, it will save us money, and help you too
Participate in our fundraising events. Whether it's golf, or abseiling, or enjoying an Old Time Music Hall or lavish Ball - there's always something going on
Go further and take up a Challenge Event - trekking across Alaska, or through the Amazon Jungle, or Skydiving
Offer your facilities or resources: perhaps you have a meeting room we can use, or a large-format printer
Recycle your used printer cartridges and mobile phones, and let Haven House get the benefit
For more about any of these ideas - and more -
Please contact Fundraising Team on 020 8506 3630. for further information on any of the above.
Thank you for your support.
VOLUNTEER
Volunteers make a huge contribution to the ongoing success of Haven House. Every area of activity associated with raising funds and running the organisation would be impossible without the generous support of our team of volunteers.
Some volunteers are able to give us a set amount of time each week, and others are able to help occasionally. We have different opportunities for everyone!
For example:
be part of a team collecting donations at stations, shopping malls or supermarkets - a couple of hours doing this can raise as much as £100 per volunteer - enough for a day's respite for a child
help at one of our shops for a day - you could help us earn enough to pay for an Activity Co-ordinator for two days
come into our office and answer the phone, help with the post, or support our fundraising office organising events
if you have a van, and can help move bulky items, you could help distribute donated goods to our shops
or if you have experience doing presentations, why not use your skills to promote the work of Haven House to local community groups, schools and clubs?
Current volunteer vacancies
Collections Volunteers
Collections volunteers become members of our bucket collecting teams. We ask for a commitment of whatever time a volunteer feels able to give – normally between 1 and 3 hours per session, but we are delighted if you can do more! Once registered, we will contact you by phone to ask for your help with specific collections. When you collect for us, the Collection Organiser will ensure that you have a rest break, and will change your bucket as (we hope!) it gets full of loose change! We are happy to reimburse you for your travel and refreshment costs. Please see our currrent collections list on our events page or click here.
Collections Organisers
We are now recruiting a group of volunteers to form a small management committee to organise and run our collections for us. The types of tasks involved are:
Approaching venues such as department stores, garden centres and shopping centres to secure dates for collections
Telephoning appropriate registered volunteers (and helping to recruit new people) to secure their availability
Producing schedules for the collections
Together with other committee members, being in attendance during the day to change buckets, provide rest breaks and be responsible for the security of the money
Retail Assistants
We have Haven House Charity Shops in Barkingside, South Woodford and Chingford. We welcome volunteers who would like to help us in our shops, where they can take part in a range of different activities, from helping to sort and display stock, to selling and window-dressing. This is ideal experience in a retail environment for volunteers who are looking for preparation for the world of work - it is also an interesting, sociable and worthwhile activity.
Haven Buddies Volunteers
This is an exciting new scheme offering support to the siblings of children who are currently, or have been, in the care of Haven House. Our first group of siblings chose the name of their group ‘Haven Buddies’ themselves. We are now looking for special people to join the Buddies and take part in group activities. If you have proven experience of working with children and young people, are kind, approachable, and have an awareness and empathy with the issues faced by the siblings of children with life-limiting or life-threatening illness, we would like to hear from you. (Volunteers in this role will be subject to enhanced CRB check.)
For more details and an informal chat about any of the above opportunities please Complete the volunteer application form page.
DONATIONS
Haven House needs to raise £1.5 million each year to provide its services. If you would like to donate money to assist in this we would be extremely grateful.
Click here to make a donation. Or should you wish to find out more please email us from the
contact us page.
