50 miles for Turkey and Syria

Please follow this link to create a Facebook fundraiser. Once created, you can easily edit the content of the page after creating it.

Click Fundraisers in the left menu of your News Feed on your Facebook profile. You may need to expand the menu to find it. Once clicked, you’ll see your fundraising page under the name ’50 Miles in 30 Days for ShelterBox’.

To share a fundraiser to your Feed on desktop:

1. Click Get started to share your fundraiser in Feed.

2. (Optional) Add more to your post.

3. Select Post.

To share a fundraiser to your Feed on mobile:

1. Select Write post to share your fundraiser in Feed.

2. Under Share in Feed, tap Write post.

3. (Optional) Add more to your post.

4. Select Post.

To edit a fundraiser on desktop:

1. Open your New Page’s Feed.

2. From the left menu, click Fundraisers.

3. Under Your fundraisers, find the fundraiser that you want to edit.

4. Click Edit Fundraiser.

5. From the fundraiser, click … under the cover photo.

6. Click Edit Fundraiser. You can edit the following:

a. Amount of money you want to raise

b. Date fundraiser will end

c. Fundraiser title

d. Your reason for raising money

e. Cover photo

7. When you’ve finished editing, click Save.

To edit a fundraiser on mobile:

From the Facebook app, open your new Page’s Feed.

1. Tap on your profile photo in the bottom right.

2. Tap Fundraisers.

3. Under Manage your fundraiser, tap on the fundraiser that you want to edit.

4. From the fundraiser, you can tap the icon or directly edit the following:

f. Cover photo

g. Fundraiser title

h. Amount of money you want to raise

i. Date fundraiser will end

j. Your reason for raising money

5. When you have finished editing, tap Save.

You can edit the end date of your fundraiser as you wish, by using the steps detailed above in the ‘how to edit my fundraiser’ section.

Yes! Drop us an email on [email protected] and we can email over a digital copy of our sponsorship form or print and post one for you if you wish.

We are encouraging all participants to use Facebook fundraising, but you can use JustGiving if you like by setting up a page here: www.justgiving.com/campaign/50milesearthquakeshttp://www.justgiving.com/campaign/50milesearthquakes

We encourage you to try your best to raise as much as possible to support vulnerable families who are in need of shelter after disasters. Raising £100 is completely achievable for a challenge of this kind. Post in the group if you are having trouble getting donations and we will do what we can to help, but please do remember that you are doing a wonderful thing in support of those who are affected by disasters and conflict regardless of how much you raise.

The money which you raise through Facebook will be automatically sent to ShelterBox, an international disaster relief charity who work to provide essential aid assistance to people affected by disasters such as conflict, earthquakes, tsunamis, drought, and extreme weather events.

By providing emergency shelter and tools for families robbed of their homes by disaster, we’re transforming despair into hope.

ShelterBox is launching an emergency fundraising appeal to help people affected by the earthquakes and other disasters around the world. Your support will contribute to our Turkey (Türkiye) and Syria Earthquakes response as part of our General Fund. We believe that the best way for us to be impactful is by staying flexible, and it is essential that we have funds available to support those affected by disasters around the world. We are currently operating in Ukraine, Ethiopia, Syria, Yemen, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Mozambique, Pakistan, Somalia and Cameroon, and we are constantly monitoring to see where our emergency shelter may be needed next. We want to see a world where no family is left without shelter after disaster. Find out more about us.

 

100% of the money that you raise will be transferred to ShelterBox, as Facebook charges no fees on charitable donations.

We trust you to record your miles however you would like. Some people will use Strava to record their walks, others may track their distance using a fitness watch, or perhaps you already know the distance of your favourite walking route so don’t need to measure it! Feel free to screenshot your miles and add to your feed if you would like to show your supporters what you’ve achieved.

This challenge runs for 30 days from whatever start date you pick. Please feel free to make it your own.. Do what you can, when you can. We believe in you!

Yes! Make this challenge your own, however you like. Many people will be walking their miles, but you can customise your own challenge to suit your own personal goals.

We are keeping this challenge as flexible as possible, to ensure that it will suit your needs and can be adapted to account for any unexpected obstacles that crop up across the month. You can take on the miles in whichever way suits you. It could be only 5 days where you complete 10 miles each time, or a little under 2 miles every day- the choice is yours!

When you registered for the challenge, we asked you whether we could contact you by email about our work, how your fundraising helps and other ways to get involved. If you selected ‘yes’ in response to this, you will have been added to our email list, whereas if you said no, you will not hear from us about anything other than this challenge. You can read our full privacy policy which details how we store your data, here: Privacy Policy – ShelterBox.

If you wish to contact us with regard to your personal data, or marketing preferences, please email us on [email protected], or phone us on +44 (0)300 0300 500.

If you would like to ask a question about the challenge, please feel free to post it in the ’50 Miles in 30 Days’ Facebook group. If you would prefer to keep your question private, you can direct message ShelterBox on Facebook and one of the team will get back to you. You can also phone us on +44 (0)300 0300 500, or email us on [email protected].