Raise money for cancer at work
Raising money in the office

3 ways to do the Work Thing

  1. Donate a proportion of your businesses profits or sales for a given period.
    Complete an Agreement

  2. Distribute Cancer Council donation boxes around the busy areas of your workplace.
    Order Donation boxes

  3. Organise a fundraiser such as a dress down or dress up day.
    Set up your thing


How it works

While there are lots of ways for businesses to get involved with fundraising for Cancer Council, including entering teams in charity events and distributing donation boxes, an increasingly popular way to participate is to donate a proportion of profit or sales that the business makes, so that’s what we’re talking about here.

To make this more straightforward we’ve prepared a Work Thing agreement to help you decide what proportion of earnings to donate and over what period. To see the Trader Agreement from, just click the 'Download Agreement' link above, complete the form online and submit it, we’ll then contact you to run through the details over the phone.

Once we’ve confirmed the Agreement in principle we’ll send you two copies of the contract along with a welcome kit. You need to return a signed copy to us and retain the second copy for your records.

The welcome kit includes lots of helpful information on communicating your support for Cancer Council to your team and customers. We include in this kit all the financial bits and pieces you need to keep track of your donations as well as all the financial housekeeping documents that make banking your funds easy.

Cancer Council
EDEN GARDENS CREATES A PINK PARADISE

In 2008 North Ryde's Eden Gardens turned their garden centre pink to help raise funds for breast cancer research and Pink Ribbon Day. They donated a percentage of sales from a wide variety of pink items, including gumboots, candy floss, gloves, planter pads, books and tea tins. Eden Gardens has undertaken several other initiatives for Cancer Council, including a beautiful Daffodil Garden, a Wall of Recognition and Wall of Memory. Each year the centre also hosts Australia's Biggest Morning Tea and a Daffodil Day function.

 

 
 
Your Work Thing
Kit Includes:
  1. Fundraising guidelines
  2. Fundraising handbook
  3. Checklist
  4. Cancer info for organisers
  5. Boosting your funds
  6. Cancer Smart events
  7. Deposit slips
  8. Income/ expenditure statements
  9. Return slips
  10. Image usage consent forms
  11. Donations boxes (if requested)

  • Cancer Council gets involved with thousands of events every year. We've packed this experience into some tips, tools and checklists to help you Do Your Thing.

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  • Another way to Do Your Thing is to join a pre-organised event and support Cancer Council through your participation. Here's what's happening soon.

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