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Getting your fundraising page out there

Volkswillow 05-08-2008, 12:06
I'm doing the manchester to blackpool bike ride for Christies in July this year.

I'll also be graduating from university and moving 100 miles back from Coventry, leaving all my friends from here either in cov, or to disperse over the country.
My justgiving page has made it possible to ask my friends from here to donate, because I don't have to be around to get cash from people, (as much as I'd love to have an excuse to go party with my friends!) But it's difficult to find a way to let people know of the web address, short of writing it on the backs of their hands.

I thought of making some little cards with the address and a nice picture on them, (I'm doing graphics, so this seems like the obvious answer) but this seems a little bit cheeky. My thought when I got the pack from christies was "this shiny paper wasn't cheap, and the design costs probably weren't either.....remind me, why do they need money again?" I think my friends would think similar.

I've already got the facebook widget, but that's hiding somewhere at the bottom of my profile, and no one can see it.

Has anyone else used justgiving as their main way of collecting before - I confess, all I've used it for was to collect donations from people I only know through the internet, I've never used it to get to real-life people!