Scottish Charity Number: SC 028744 Student Volunteer Centre,
5/1 Bristo Square
Edinburgh EH8 9AL
UK
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Scottish Charity Number: SC 028744 Student Volunteer Centre, 5/1 Bristo Square Edinburgh EH8 9AL UK |
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Firefly Summer Camps 2007 Volunteer ResourcesThe following downloads and resource pages are available (make sure your browser is configured to allow pop-ups):Part 1: General resources1) Volunteer application form2) Summer camps agreement - if you have been accepted as a volunteer, please download this form, sign it, and email it back to us. 3) Travel information and advice for more information about the closest airports, and to book your flight. 4) Language help: please download the following three language guides: i) The Alphabet - Bosnia uses the same alphabet as the English one, but there are a couple of new letters, and some of the letters we use are pronounced differently. This document will help you to become familiar with them. ii) Alphabet and Pronunciation - Bosnian pronunciation is very straightforward to learn, as the sounds for each letter do not vary as in English. This short guide will allow you to easily read signs and other writing. iii) Bosnian lesson 1 - this lesson will give you a brief introduction to Bosnian grammar. Please read through it as you'll have a couple of introductory lessons while in Brcko, and will be expected to have already familiarised yourself with this! Don't worry if it doesn't make sense at this stage. Part 2: Fundraising:1) Kids International, a fundraising website set up by Firefly to raise money for grass-roots projects around the world. Any time anyone shops at Amazon, Ebay, or hundreds of other online shops, buys online plane, bus or train tickets (at a range of travel sites such as Lastminute.com, Opodo, British Airways, National Express, theTrainLine.co.uk, and many more), buys electronics, or a mobile phone (for example at the Carphone Warehouse, Apple iPods or computers, or Dixons), books, CDs, videos or DVDs (at Amazon, Booksonline, WHSmith, HMV or many more), makes international phone calls, or does any other online shopping, they can go to their favourite online shopping sites through links on the Kids International site, and each of the shopping sites will give us a percentage of any payment made to them for goods bought. Between now and June 15th, all income to Firefly through the site will be divided between our summer camps volunteers. Please email the link, and a request to use it, to as many people as you can! If each volunteer gets 20 people to use the site regularly, you could raise much of your funds this way.2) Sample Fundraising Letter - download this letter and you can modify it to fit your circmstances. Don't copy it word for word as it's not intended to be an exact description of this year's camps - it's a letter we used sucessfully for previous camp's fundraising. 3) One-page Project Description - you can print this out and add it to funding applications. 4) Summer Camps Flyer - you can print this out and use copies at fundraising events. 5) UK Rotary clubs addresses, or Rotary clubs addresses from other countries - if you're from the UK, click on & download the UK addresses, and if you're from anywhere else, download the addresses for other countries. These documents each contain descriptions of rotary clubs, round tables and 4 other similar organisations. These are groups of local individuals (usually businessmen) that will give funding to people from their area to carry out or take part in projects. The document also includes contact information for each of the 6 types of group. You should each write to each one - you can just modify the sample fundraising letter, above, so it should take you no longer than 20 minutes to write to the different groups, & you may find it possible to raise all your money this way. Very easy! 6) Firefly International Logo - you can use this logo on any funding materials or applications you produce, or put it on posters for events etc. 7) Svitac (Firefly Bosnia) Logo - you can use this logo on any funding materials or applications you produce, or put it on posters for events etc. 8) We are asking each of you to arrange and take part in a sponsored or fundraising event between now and the end of July. They don't need to be complicated - in previous years we've had a one-day's sponsored silence (from a very talkative individual..), sponsored 10-mile walks and cycle rides, a sponsored bake (which also allowed the spons-ee to sell the baked goods following the event), and a sponsored no smoking day. The best way to raise money is to convince 4 or 5 friends to take part in the event with you - they can then raise money on your behalf or for projects they're doing, and it makes it more fun even if they don't raise money. Have a look at the following fundraising ideas documents, which includes information on sponsored events, sales, raffles, and others. i) Organising a raffle ii) Organising a fundraising sale iii) Organising a sponsored event iv) Go to our A to Z of fundraising ideas page for more ideas. 9) Blind Date application form. For those of you up for organising a bigger event, one of our most successful and popular event has always been our blind date night. For this to work, you ideally need to have two groups of people involved who don't know each other too well (so that you can set people up on dates with someone they don't already know). You need a minium of about 10 people - it often makes sense to team up with someone else who's also trying to raise money, as you'll then widen the circle of people taking part. Each person pays some amount (5 or 10 pounds is a reasonable sum to ask for) to take part, and fills in a form (you can download it through the link, above), to specify what kind of date they'd like. You then set them up with someone who has similar answers on their form, and arrange for all the couples to meet in different locations. They can identify each other by using their stated chat-up lines from the form (or, as often happens, if they're too embarrassed they can just go up to people who look similarly awkward and ask if they're their blind date...). Arrange a party at one of the bars or someone's home where all the dates can come 45 minutes after the date starts, get people to invite friends - that way, if the date isn't working they can get out early and hang out with friends for the rest of the evening. Friends who didn't do the date should pay a small amount, say 1 or 2 pounds, entry to the party. People whose dates are going well can of course keep the date going longer and show up to the party later! We've raised a lot of money with this each year - even people who were initially sceptical ended up loving it, since even those who don't want a date or who are already in a couple can use it as a way to meet new people, make some more friends/acquaintences, or just have fun for an evening. Part 3: Photos:You can download and use these photos in any posters, flyers or other fundraising materials you produce.1) Firefly's Brodusa Youth Centre 2) Children at the 2001 summer camp 3) Children from Firefly's Dizdarusa Youth Centre 4) Marina, aged 11, at the 2001 summer camp 5) Mileva, aged 9, at the 2001 summer camp 6) Children from Firefly projects 7) Children at Firefly's New Year party, Brcko 8) Children & volunteers swimming 9) Vlado, 18, at Firefly's 2001 Tuzla camp 10) Mark, a Firefly volunteer, on the beach 11) Volunteers dressing up at Firefly's 2001 summer camp |
