Fundraising - Adoption Matters

Help Adoption Matters children's charity through donations & fundraising

£5

pays for refreshments for a child attending one of our Centre for Adoption Support Choir sessions

£35

could fund activity materials for use within a Theraplay support package

£100

could provide a virtual therapeutic consultation session for any member of an Adoption Matters family with one of our adoption professionals

£400

could fund materials for our invaluable Life Story work for children along with a session with adoptive parents to share the work

£1,000

would provide a package of intense support for families during times of crisis

Want to Donate?

There are several ways you can donate

Donate online now

Make a regular donation

Helps our families today and allows us to plan better for the future.

If you feel that you can spare as little as £5 a month, then please consider setting up a direct debit.

Set up a regular donation

By cheque

If you would rather send a cheque than make a donation online.

Please pop it into the post to our head office at: Adoption Matters, Fundraising, 14 Liverpool Road, Chester CH2 1AE Remember to include your full details so we can thank you.

Download donation form

Celebration Giving

Many people celebrate special occasions by choosing to ask for donations to Adoption Matters instead of gifts, flowers and cards. If you would like to do this we can offer you donation envelopes that you can send to guests, or leave on a table. They can choose to Gift Aid (see more info below).

Donate online NOW

Donate quickly and easily online now.

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Donate by Text

You can donate to us by text message:

To Donate £5 text 5GIVEAM to 70085
To Donate £10 text 10GIVEAM to 70085
To Donate £20 text 20GIVEAM to 70085

Texts will cost you the amount you choose above, plus one standard network rate message. You will be opting in to hear more about our work and fundraising via telephone and SMS.

If you’d like to donate by text but do not wish to receive marketing communications, text the following:

To Donate £5 text 5GIVENOINFO to 70085
To Donate £10 text 10GIVENOINFO to 70085
To Donate £20 text 20GIVEINFO to 70085

We use a platform called Donr for our Text Giving who charge 5% (plus VAT) of every donation made. Your donation will be added to your monthly phone bill and you can even add Gift Aid.

Facebook Birthday Fundraisers

Did you know you can set up a Birthday Fundraiser on Facebook to support your favourite charity? We’d love it if you’d pick us – what better way to make a difference on such an important day of the year!

Create a Facebook Fundraiser

Gift Aid

Gift Aid is a scheme run by the UK Government whereby if you are a UK taxpayer and you donate money to us we can claim tax you have already paid on the amount of the donation. This means we get up to an extra 25p for every £1 you donate to us – and it costs you nothing! All you need to do is fill in a simple Gift Aid declaration form which is available to download below.

There are rules that must be followed. For instance, we can only claim on your donations if you are a UK taxpayer and if you are donating in your own right. You must also have paid enough income tax or capital gains tax in the past year to cover the amount we claim. We cannot claim Gift Aid on donations you have made and received something in return i.e. tickets for an event. We also cannot claim Gift Aid on donations left in a Will. For full details about what can and cannot be Gift Aided please click here

Download Gift Aid
declaration form

Gift Aid Thumbnail - Child with painting

Featured Event Great North Run

**All places have been sold, however, we do still have spots available on the Great Manchester Run 10k and the Virtual TCS London Marathon!!**

The world’s biggest and best half marathon – famous for its warm North East welcome, unbeatable atmosphere and the millions raised for good causes is back on Sunday 11 September.

We have 5 places for this incredible run. To secure your place for this iconic event then please get in touch fundraising@adoptionmatters.org or call Fundraising on 0300 123 1066.

Registration fee: £35

Minimum sponsorship: £350

Book your place:

Give A Car

You can donate your old car and support Adoption Matters!

Giveacar is a not-for-profit social enterprise that can turn your old car into cash for any UK charity. They arrange free collection, then either sell your car at auction or scrap it with the proceeds (minus service fees) raised going to your charity. Since they started in 2010, they’ve raised over £4 million for charities in the UK and worldwide.

Every vehicle—even if it’s just a car’s scrap metal value—is worth something. Whatever reason you have to scrap a car—or any vehicle for that matter—using Giveacar is the best way to make a real difference while you’re at it. We collect from anywhere in the UK, and you won’t have to do a thing. Scrap your car for charity today and support your favourite cause.

They’ll arrange free collection across the UK
Depending on its condition it’ll be auctioned or scrapped
@Giveacar donate the proceeds to us

Just remember to nominate Adoption Matters as your chosen charity! Find out more at http://www.giveacar.co.uk or call 020 7736 4242

If you’d like any advice or guidance about making donations please get in touch on Freephone: 0300 123 1066 or email us at: fundraising@adoptionmatters.org

Want to Fundraise?

Decide what you want to do

We still really need your support at the moment especially as Covid-19 restrictions are so difficult for children. Please take a look and see how you can continue to support us through these tricky times. Thank you so much!

There are lots of things we can’t do right now so let’s focus on what we can do!

What do you like doing? Do you want to set yourself a challenge? Set your own target.

Walks, Runs, Sponsored silence, virtual family Bake off! Set your goal and fundraise for Adoption Matters at the same time. Set up your online fundraising page here.

Fancy a how to get fit challenge such as the couch to 5K? It’s so important right now to keep ourselves fit and healthy. Visit our Get Active challenge page here for more information.

Don’t forget to set yourself a fundraising target and let everyone know how much you would like to raise and how this will help Adoption Matters.

Business support – Do you or someone you know work at a business that is looking to support a charity – perhaps as Charity of the Year? If you’d like to have a chat about how to do this then please get in touch with us here.
How do I tell everyone what I am doing? If you are happy to share your story, our Marketing Team may be able to help you by sharing on your behalf or assisting you with sharing. You could send an email to your friends and family with your JustGiving page and keep them updated on any progress you make. If you use social media, why not post the details of your fundraising activity on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and tag us in so we can help spread the word.

We are here to support you with sponsorship forms, fundraising materials and plenty of motivation, let us know through our contact us function here.

Meet some of our fundraising heroes...

Edward

Edward ran 450km in a single month

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Jamie

Cycled from London to Paris

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Eight thrillseekers

Skydivers reach new heights!

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Ruth & Steve

Adopter Ruth chose us 54 years after adopting!

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The Ice Cream Farm

Chose us as their Charity of the Year

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Graham

Took on the Boston Rowing Marathon

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Mike

Took part in the London Marathon

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Sarah

Sarah ran the Manchester 10K

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How we can HELP...

Contact our Fundraising Team and we can help with:

Poster/Event Templates

Balloons

Collection boxes and buckets

Authorisation letter

Running vests

Sponsorship forms

Setting up your online fundraising page

T-shirts

Marketing/Social Media/Advice

Latest Events

Sun 21

Aug

Open Garden and Teddy Bears’ Picnic

Cost: Adults: £5 Children: Free

Grab your picnic, Teddy Bear and blanket and join Adoption Matters for our Open Garden and Teddy Bears' Picnic! Stories, a woodland Bear Hunt, entertainment and most of all lots of Teddies!!

Find out more

Sun 11

Sep

Great North Run

Cost: Registration fee: £35 Minimum sponsorship: £350

The world’s biggest and best half marathon – famous for its warm North East welcome, unbeatable atmosphere and the millions raised for good causes.

Find out more

Sun 18

Sep

CBC Chester Charity Walk

Cost: Free

This years CBC Chester Charity Walk will take place on Sunday 18 September 2022 and all Adoption Matters supporters are warmly invited to join the walk - together with their families, colleagues, friends and even their dogs, to raise much needed funds for the charity.

Find out more

Sun 2

Oct

Virtual TCS London Marathon

Cost: Registration fee: £20 Minimum sponsorship: £200

The 41st London Marathon on Sunday 3 October 2021 was the biggest marathon ever staged anywhere in the world. Do you want to run the TCS London Marathon this year but don’t want to travel down to London? Do you need longer to complete it? The great news is Adoption Matters has 10 places available.

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Fundraise while you SHOP

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Give as you live

Amazon Smile

Easyfundraising.org.uk

The UK’s biggest charity shopping fundraising site.

It’s simple to use and it’s free. Since it launched in 2005, they have helped thousands of good causes raise money simply by shopping online.

How does it work?

easyfundraising turns your everyday online shopping into free donations for your favourite cause. How? Just start your online shopping first at easyfundraising, then shop as normal. The retailers will then make a small donation to say “thank you”.

They have 3,578 retailers to choose from and so far have raised over £25 million for thousands of community groups, schools, sports clubs, small and large charities across the UK. On behalf of Adoption Matters – thank you!

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Give as you live

Give as you Live is the free and easy way to raise free funds for Adoption Matters, simply by shopping online.

Join for free today and start raising money when you shop at over 4,300 stores. Click on a store you want to shop with and we’ll direct you to the store’s website where you can continue to shop as normal. Your purchase will automatically generate free funds for charity!

From holidays and travel, to clothing and gifts, you can raise hundreds of pounds from all your online purchases.

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Amazon Smile

The online retail giant, Amazon, is now doing its bit for charity. You can shop as usual and when you buy Amazon will donate 0.5% of the sale to us. All you have to do is like Adoption Matters as your favourite charity of choice at www.smile.amazon.co.uk

Here’s how to do it:

Log in to your normal Amazon account but through smile.amazon.co.uk
Select Adoption Matters as your chosen charity
Whenever you purchase through the smile.amazon.co.uk site, Amazon will donate 0.5% of the total directly to us!
Right now, this is only available through your web browser and not available through the Amazon app. But we’ll keep you posted if this changes.

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Try VOLUNTEERING

Volunteering your time is really helpful to us. Not only that, volunteering can make a real difference to your own life and the lives of those around you. If you think you have skills, experience or some availability that could benefit Adoption Matters, we’d love to hear from you.

Volunteering also has many added benefits – these include:

meeting new people and making new friends
a chance to socialise
getting to know the local community
gaining new skills, knowledge and experience
using one’s professional skills and knowledge to benefit others

Unfortunately, due to Covid-19 restrictions in place, we are not able to fulfil lots of volunteering opportunities right now, but we can take your details and contact you again when we can!

Right now you can really help us by sharing our social media posts whenever you can which will enable us to reach so many people that would normally not hear about our work. You can find our us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram – our pages are packed full of lots of news, tips, advice, events and lots of fun stuff so we would love if you could follow us.

Supermarket Collections

From time to time we carry out supermarket collections in our areas. If you have any time to offer with our collection buckets and information stands that would be wonderful. Please email fundraising@adoptionmatters.org or call us on 0300 123 1066. If you can think of a local supermarket that would be a good venue for a collection for us then please just let us know.

Note: Unfortunately, due to Covid-19 restrictions in place, we are not able to fulfil lots of volunteering opportunities right now, but we can take your details and contact you again when we can!

Adoption Matters Collection Boxes

Could you place one of our collection boxes in your local area, a community centre, chip shop, hairdressers or even taxi rank?

Please email fundraising@adoptionmatters.org or call us on 0300 123 1066.

Note: Unfortunately, due to Covid-19 restrictions in place, we are not able to fulfil lots of volunteering opportunities right now, but we can take your details and contact you again when we can!

Helping out at one of our events

Could you volunteer your time to assist at one of our events? This could be for a couple of hours helping to collect funds or assisting at a Charity Lunch.

Please email fundraising@adoptionmatters.org or call us on 0300 123 1066.

Note: Unfortunately, due to Covid-19 restrictions in place, we are not able to fulfil lots of volunteering opportunities right now, but we can take your details and contact you again when we can!

GIFTS IN WILLS

Thank you for thinking about leaving a Gift in your Will to Adoption Matters.

Having a Will in place gives you peace of mind and ensures that you look after your loved ones when the time comes. No one knows what the future holds and our circumstances change throughout our lives. By including a Gift in your Will to Adoption Matters you will leave a lasting legacy to improve the lives and futures of local children and their families.

Once you have looked after those closest to you, it’s amazing the difference even a small gift or percentage of your estate can make. A gift of any size has a real impact and ensures that we can support the whole adoption journey in the very best way possible.

We understand that there is a lot to consider when you are planning your Will and we are very grateful for your consideration. If there is anything more you would like to know about Gifts in Wills or Adoption Matters please contact our team at fundraising@adoptionmatters.org or call 0300 123 1066. Thank you for your support.

Remember a Charity Week 6-12 September 2021

Adoption Matters took part in last year’s national Remember a Charity Week highlighting the impact of leaving a Gift in your Will.

Download our free Gifts in Wills Information Guide here which tells you everything you need to know about Leaving a Gift to us in your Will.

FAQ about Wills

Why do I need a Will?

Over 50% of UK adults do not write a Will. This means that their assets will be distributed by a law which was made many years ago, and is not always right for many people, especially those who are not married but live together, people who have second families and people who want to give some money to charity. Writing a Will allows an individual to set out their wishes on who they would want to benefit from their estate.

If I have a Will, will I need to update it?

It is sensible to review your Will periodically, to make sure it still reflects your wishes. Births and deaths, and changing assets, can all be reasons to consider whether your Will currently reflects your wishes. Marriage and divorce revoke previous Wills written, so ensure your Will is both up to date and valid.

What will my Gift help with?

By including a Gift in your Will you will leave a lasting legacy to improve the lives and futures of local children and their families. Your Gift could help us to:

* place more children

* develop and enhance our adoption support services

* offer more fun activities for our families to aid health and well-being

* offer more services for post adoption support

Free Wills - Bequeathed

Bequeathed is an online Wills provider carefully chosen by Remember A Charity to help you write your Will online for free.

The service was set up by solicitors and provides a secure way to make a Will from the comfort of your own home at a time that best suits you, including saving it and coming back to it later.

All Wills include up to 30 minutes legal advice from one of the Bequeathed’s legal firms. For many people that will be all they need. If you have more complex family circumstances, multiple properties, business assets or foreign property, you may need to pay for additional advice. (Where that is the case, the firm will provide you with a quote, before you start writing your Will).

Contact us...

For more information

Download our free Gifts in Wills Information Guide here which tells you everything you need to know about leaving a Gift to us in your Will

For any further information about Gifts in Wills please contact our team fundraising@adoptionmatters.org or call 0300 123 1066. Thank you for your support.

Contact

Help Adoption Matters children's charity through donations & fundraising

Adoption Matters is a children’s charity specialising in adoption – that is all we do and have been doing for over 74 years.

Want to Donate?

Donate online NOW

Donate by Text

Facebook Birthday Fundraisers

Gift Aid

*Featured Event* Great North Run

Give A Car

Want to Fundraise?

How we can HELP...

Latest Events

Open Garden and Teddy Bears’ Picnic

Great North Run

CBC Chester Charity Walk

Virtual TCS London Marathon

Fundraise while you SHOP

Try VOLUNTEERING

Supermarket Collections

Adoption Matters Collection Boxes

Helping out at one of our events

GIFTS IN WILLS

Why do I need a Will?

If I have a Will, will I need to update it?

What will my Gift help with?

Free Wills - Bequeathed

For more information

Featured Event Great North Run