EBay My Favourite Charity 2017

This is a fundraising opportunity that Ebay ran in 2016 and is now running in October 2017. £7000 is the top award.

Our working document/action plan is at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eHSsSE-Yb9uIZO-L8k3jtDJWPvUG_FixWUUrDoDAw/edit?usp=sharing

Ebay page

http://ebayforcharity.org.uk/favourites/

Member votes

You can see how many of our lovely members have voted for us so far - https://www.ilovefreegle.org/stats/ebay

Users of Freegle groups receive a message with each email generated by FD - "Please vote for Freegle to win up to £7000 of much-needed funding. Save us as your favourite eBay charity - click here."

Plan of Action for Mods for October 2017

On the 13th, 20th and 27th, if you use Facebook, please make a personal appeal to your friends adapted from the text below

On the 16th, please send both a Special Notice on Yahoo, and an Admin on FD, adapted from the text below.

On the 28th, please send a second Special Notice on Yahoo and an Admin on FD, adapted from the text below

Do you know any people with large social media followings, or local community groups / Facebook pages? Please ask them to share something from the text at link A.

Suggested first Admin to be sent out by groups to members:

Dear Members

You may remember that last year there was a competition on Ebay with a top prize of £7000 for the winning charity. We were thrilled to win the second prize of £3000. The good news is that this year Ebay are holding it again.

We have running costs of around £20,000 a year, but with no income other than member donations a prize would be a huge boost to our funds.

Please can we ask all of you who use Ebay to mark Freegle as your favourite charity, we are then in with a chance of winning some of the money Ebay are offering this year. It costs you no more than a few seconds of your time, just click the link and select ‘save as favourite’ - http://freegle.it/ebay

Unfortunately this is for 'new' favourites only, so if your favourite is still showing as Freegle from last year, you can’t vote for us this time. Optimistically, though, if your vote is already showing Freegle as the favourite at the start of the competition, please unmark it so that you can use it again next year.

Thanks so much for your support, we really appreciate it.

Suggested second Admin to be sent out by groups to members:

Hi again

You will have seen our earlier message about the Ebay competition, in which we're hoping we'll get enough support to win a prize.

Great news, we are doing well with lots of members already having nominated Freegle as their favourite charity. But the competition still has a few days to go, so we would really appreciate anyone who hasn't yet nominated Freegle to help us out now. You simply have to click the link and select 'save as favourite' - http://freegle.it/ebay

Thanks to everyone who has voted/nominated us so far and to those that are just about to do it! Fingers crossed for a prize, it will mean so much to us.

Twitter

There are a lots of Tweets and Facebook posts scheduled nationally to go out for the whole of October.

Suggested basic text:

"Please support #reuse and vote for Freegle to win a donation from @Ebay4CharityUK Go here >>> http://freegle.it/eBay You just need to make us your #favouritecharity – only takes a minute to do!"

Please retweet any you make on your group via https://twitter.com/thisisfreegle and share the FB posts via https://www.facebook.com/Freegle/ (that can be done via modtools too)

So Far

10.10.17:

• 5-9/10 Bulk mail to members asking them to vote.
• 2-3/10 Sent Facebook notifications to freeglers that we can reach via that route asking them to vote.
• 2/10 Done some personal shares on social media to get our friends to vote (have you shared http://freegle.it with a personal appeal on Facebook?)
• 2/10 Sent a mail to all groups asking volunteers to vote.
• 1/10 Put a popup appeal on the site.
• 1/10 Put a note and link in emails we send out.
• 1/10 Scheduled social media throughout October.

Links

• Ebay My Favourite Charity 2016
• National Fundraising
• Freegle Funding Group