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Fundraising for travelling and volunteering


Fundraising for your gap year

Below you'll find lots of creative ideas to help you raise funds for your gap year, from sponsored skydives to selling stuff on eBay. There's also advice on raising money from charitable trusts, and tales from people who raised money in ingenious ways.




Raising money?

  A-Z of fundraising ideas
  Writing to Trusts and Grants
  Get yourself in the press

Top ideas

  I slept for money
  I sat in a bath of catfood
  I organised a jazz concert
  I bridge walked as a clown
  I sailed across the Channel
  I cycled from London to Rome
  More success stories
  Gapyear.com fundraisers
  Fundraiser diaries
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Top fundraising advice

Ants raised £29,000 driving a tuk tuk from Bangkok to Brighton for Mind. She shares her fundraising tips here... >>

Fundraiser of the month

Lizzy and her fellow fundraiser Aaron plan to get to South Africa on £3 and a little ingenuity... >>

Gap year grants

Did you know there are trusts and charities that give cash to gappers? >>

Get paid to fundraise

Work as a charity fundraiser: fun, worthwhile and well-paid... >>