Sponsored Events

BirdLife welcomes donations raised through sponsored challenge events from marathon runs, treks, walks and triathlons to fun runs or bird races.

How to collect funds on the web

BirdLife is working with Justgiving to make it easy for people participating in such events to collect their sponsorship funds over the web.

Through the scheme participants can create their own personal web page on the Justgiving web site to explain their personal challenge and why they are supporting BirdLife.

Participants then send an email to all their sponsors inviting them to pay their sponsorship at their personal web page on Justgiving. Sponsors can securely make their sponsorship payment at the web page using a credit or debit card.

Participants' web pages are updated with the total amount collected and the funds are transferred automatically to BirdLife.

If a sponsor is a UK tax payer, Justgiving even arrange a tax bonus for BirdLife which increases the value of the donation by 28%.

Which sponsored events

You can currently use the scheme to collect funds if you are participating in events like the London Marathon, New York Marathon, Paris Marathon, Trek the Great Wall of China, the Arup Three Peaks Challenge (trek), the Ben Nevis Weekend Challenge (trek), Walk for the World, the Grand Canyon Expedition (cycle), Egypt Bike Ride and the London Triathlon.

Further events including BirdLife Bird Races will be added regularly.

What to do next

If you are organising a sponsored event that will have lots of people collecting funds for BirdLife then contact us to have your event added to Justgiving. Please contact howtohelp@birdlife.org.

To see the latest list of events supported by Justgiving for BirdLife please see: http://www.justgiving.com/events/charityevents/default.asp?fid=215

To set up your own page for collecting sponsorship funds please follow these instructions: http://www.justgiving.com/charity/birdlifeint

If you would like to sponsor people who are participating in these events to collect funds for BirdLife please visit: http://www.justgiving.com/fundraisers/fundraiser/listgroups/default.asp?fid=215