Raise Your Cup for the Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea 2014. Together We'll Beat Cancer.

Announcement posted by JC Indahaus Media 22 May 2014

TV Personality-Celebrity-Actress, Brynne Edelsten, Melbourne Songstress-Soul-Diva, Sarah Capodicasa & Melbourne Socialite-Celebrity Media Publicist for JC Indahaus, Cassidy Poon recently attended a charity event leading up to Biggest Morning Tea.

TV Personality-Celebrity-Actress, Brynne Edelsten, Melbourne Songstress-Soul-Diva, Sarah Capodicasa & Melbourne Socialite-Celebrity Media Publicist for JC Indahaus, Cassidy Poon recently attended a charity event leading up to the Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea 2014 that starts from today! This is an opportunity for everybody to come together, share a cuppa and some delicious food, whilst helping those affected by cancer.

Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea is an opportunity for friends, family or workmates to come together, share a cuppa and some delicious food, whilst helping those affected by cancer. While the official date for the next Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea is on Thursday 22nd May, events can be held any time during May or June.

How will your donation help?

Every dollar we raise contributes to vital cancer research and clinical trials, support services for patients, their families and carers, and information and public education campaigns. Cancer Council Australia is registered as an Income Tax Exempt Charity: Charitable Fundraising Number CFN/22859. All donations over $2 are tax deductible.

$25 can go towards resources to help GPs and health professionals advise their patients about cancer prevention, screening and diagnosis.

$50 can help the Cancer Council Helpline (13 11 20) provide free and confidential information and support on all aspects of cancer.

$100 can go towards helping a childcare centre or primary school join the National SunSmart Schools Program.

$250 can go towards paying an overdue bill for a family who hasn’t been able to work.

$500 can help fund ground-breaking research into new and better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer.

Get your workplace involved in 2014. There are a variety of ways you can get involved and make a difference.

As Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea’s official date takes place on Thursday 22nd May, we realise many of our hopeful fundraising hosts will be at work. So, why not host an event in your office? It’s a great way for everyone to come together, enjoy some tasty morning tea, share a few activities, and raise money for a fantastic cause.

Where do you start? Here are a few tips:

1. Talk to your boss.

Make sure management are behind the Morning Tea, and are happy for you to promote it. Encourage them to promote it too! Talk to them about suitable dates and locations to hold your tea.

2. Prizes and donations

Ask management about the possibility of your workplace donating prizes to the event. It could be anything from company merchandise, to a paid day off work!

3. Get your teams organised

Are there other people in your company who want to hold a Biggest Morning Tea, within the same state? Why not register your workplace and see which team raises the most for cancer research, prevention and support services

- Register as a team: designate a morning tea host to be the team captain

- Join an existing team: get individual hosts within the same state to join your team

- Register as an individual: you can also fundraise as an individual and invite your work colleagues along to your tea

Simply select your state to register your workplace today:

4. Set up an Online Fundraising Page

Use your fundraising page to promote all the details of your event - so people can find out about it quickly and easily.

Using your fundraising page >

5. Promote your event

Make sure that you include your event on your company’s intranet. Send an email as a calendar invite - so it’s automatically added to your colleagues’ diaries. You can also send HTML emails and LinkedIn messages out via your fundraising page.

Resources and downloads >

6. Get Fundraising

Get people to donate to your fundraising page by emailing your unique page link. We have lots of workplace fundraising tips and ideas to help you get your workplace involved, but here are a few ideas:

Suggest an entry fee for the event
Host a raffle or auction with the prizes donated by the organisation or staff
If your company supports workplace giving, why not allow an online, one-off payroll donation to support the event. Talk to your boss about getting this organised and whether or not it’s possible. Download a dollar matching letter template.

Get your friends, families or work colleagues together and Host a tea >

We want Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea 2014 to be bigger and better than ever so this year we have made fundraising even more exciting by introducing the opportunity to create or join a team as well as registering as an individual!

The fundraising event is about getting people together, sharing a cuppa and helping those affected by cancer. So what better way to do this than allowing for workplace’s or groups to get involved, collectively fundraise and get a bit of friendly competition happening.

Cancer Council Australia is registered as an Income Tax Exempt Charity: Charitable Fundraising Number CFN/22859. All donations over $2 are tax deductible.

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