Using beauty to raise money for charity?

[TheLacquerLounge]

Hi geeks!

I've always been into raising money for charity, done a few sponsored events and find it very rewarding!

I would absolutely love to hold a type of charity fundraising event but unfortunately don't really have the space (i work from home and my beauty room is pretty small)

I'm thinking of doing a tanathon event in June for cancer research, just trying to finalize dates etc at the moment.

I want to do something bigger though and i'm just wondering if any other geeks have done something similar? Maybe held an event somewhere and donated a percentage of the earnings from the treatments to a charity? And also did you do anything else apart from beauty treatments?

Would love some ideas as this is something i'd be very interested in!
Thanks x

 

[Mrs RSM]

I offer a package for auction for my favourite charities, and its always animals for me!

 

[TheLacquerLounge]

that sounds a great idea! do you give the whole moneys raised to the charity or a percentage from it? x

 

[Mrs RSM]

The charity gets all the money and I just provide the treatments. So for example, they are having an auction and I give them a manicure,pedicure,massage and spraytan package. Highest bidder wins, pays them and only when they have paid can they book the treatments at my salon. HTH

 

[GracefulH&B]

I have organised a few pamper nights to raise funds for my daughters school and one for MS. How it works is you get local business' to "rent" a table for a set amount (I charge £20 + a raffle prize), then you invite as many people as you can, charge them £5 entrance and sell as many raffle tickets as possible. We generally raise about £800 per night. The last one I organised, we had a girl doing gel nails for £10, a hairdresser doing up-do's for £5, I did reflexology hand massages for free, there was angel card readers (these always go down really well), a make-up artist doing make-overs for £5 and then lots of craft stalls. All the business' more than makes their money back and everybody gets pampered for a fraction of what it would cost them in a salon and we raise a brilliant amount of money. Hope this helps.
Mandy

 

[Redduck]

I've recently done a fund raiser at my son's school. I provided a postcard with a list of treatments I do and put a sticker on it saying 50% of all treatments booked by a certain date will be donated to the school. I do it for one month every year and it's a different charity each year.

 

[Kimzie]

I have organised a few pamper nights to raise funds for my daughters school and one for MS. How it works is you get local business' to "rent" a table for a set amount (I charge £20 + a raffle prize), then you invite as many people as you can, charge them £5 entrance and sell as many raffle tickets as possible. We generally raise about £800 per night. The last one I organised, we had a girl doing gel nails for £10, a hairdresser doing up-do's for £5, I did reflexology hand massages for free, there was angel card readers (these always go down really well), a make-up artist doing make-overs for £5 and then lots of craft stalls. All the business' more than makes their money back and everybody gets pampered for a fraction of what it would cost them in a salon and we raise a brilliant amount of money. Hope this helps.
Mandy

That is genius I love it. Great way to network with other local business' like make up artists and hairdressers. Plus you will be advertising yourself and hopefully getting them to visit you for a full price treatment at your place in the future. So everybody wins! And it helps integrate you into your community too which is always great for business. Xx

 

[Pinkbunny28]

When I was at college each group held a charity event night for friends and family to provide treatments (so we could do our ranges etc) and all local businesses could get involved and donate things for our raffle and for mini goodie bags for each person, even food think we made about £500 from raffle and treatments which I think 50% of profits went to the charity was a fantastic night too and everyone who donated was given free advertising at the event x

 

[tiger-lily]

oh thats so weird i just posted a new thread about organising some sort of wee event.

i was thinking a bit bigger than the usual sort of charity days salons run.

see my post and we could maybe knock all our heads together and come up with something awesome!:Grope: