Adventures with Dad: Fundraising Week
Join us in celebrating and promoting dads' active involvement with their children while raising funds to support Dadvengers and the work we do with dads. Participate in a sponsored activity that encourages dads to spend quality time with their kids. Make a difference and embrace the joy of fatherhood.
When:
From 18th to 24th September 2023.
What We Would Like You Do:
Organise a fundraising event, either on your own or with a group of parents.
Your activities should take place across the week, and we are holding a number sponsored walks in different locations on Sunday 24th September 2023. You’re welcome to join one of our walks, or we’ve got some other fundraising ideas for you:
Dads Drop Off Week
Whether it is something you don't usually do, or you don’t get the opportunity to do very often, make time to be the dad on the school / nursery run! Drop your child off and pick them up from school during the week, and get sponsored to do it!
Dads Cook with Kids
Cook dinner with your kids throughout the week. Whether you choose to do it everyday in that week, or have an epic dads and kids cooking session on the weekend. Getting hands on with your kids in the kitchen not only teaches them great life skills, it is a fun activity for all dads to do with their kids.
Dads and Kids Football Match
Organise a football match for dads vs. kids in your local area! Just pick a day and time, organise the teams and head to your local park to have a fun morning and see which team comes out on top!
Arts and Crafts with Dad
Get crafty with your kids! Spend some time with your children getting into drawing, glitter and glue and make some brilliant crafty creations. If you need some resources, get in touch and we can send out some activity sheets for colouring and drawing together, and have some brilliant craft ideas coming soon.
Sponsored Scoot / Bike Ride
Whether your kids want to scoot or cycle, you can go as far as you like and get sponsored by the kilometre. You can do the walk solo, or organise a group of dads and kids in your area and all go together!
Dadvengers Quiz Night
Our Dadvengers Quiz Nights are always great fun, and we can’t wait to get this one going! Pay £20 by donation to the Crowdfunder Quiz page to join the quiz, and send us an email to [email protected] to let us know you’ve done it. We will get you on the quiz list and send you all the details before the big night!
There will be a prize for the winner and it’s guaranteed to be great fun!
Join a Dadvengers Sponsored Dad Walk
We are organising sponsored Dad Walks across the UK, if you want to join one of ours or set up your own, get in touch by emailing [email protected]
Nigel will be taking his kids on a 3km walk in North London. If you want to join his group just let us know by email and we can send you the specifics!
Or, click here to sponsor Nigel's group.
What Will the Money Raised be Used For
Dadvengers is a Community Interest Company and any money that we raise will be put into meeting the needs of the community we serve - that’s you, the dads, parents and professionals who we work with.
The funding will be used in a range of ways; such as to arrange meet-ups, and activities for fathers and their children, which we want to continue to subsidise and ensure our services are accessible to all. These activities promote the father-child bond and strengthen relationships, which in turn reduces mental health issues in children and their fathers.
It will help us expand our successful Dad Walks to new areas. Being one of our most successful initiatives, we would like to roll these out over the whole of the UK, and this will need major funding if it is to remain free for local communities.
Funding will also support attending events for new and soon-to-be parents. We attend them to meet new parents and introduce them to Dadvengers, sharing the support and resources we can provide them. We are often the only father focussed company at these events, which demonstrates the importance of attending to ensure dads aren’t marginalised and have access to the support they deserve.
To support delivery of our New Dads Course and create new courses to support dads in other areas of parenting - like bonding with your child.
It will also help us to meet the costs of running Dadvengers; covering things like insurances, accounting, and staff training.
How do You Organise Your Sponsored Event
Start by choosing your idea, whether it is a solo event, or a group activity, and the date you want to run it.
We may also be able to help you promote your fundraising event by sharing it on our social media - use the hashtag #DadvengersAWD and tag Dadvengers in your posts so that we can help you reach other parents in your area.
Setting Up Your Crowdfunder Page for Our Cause
All you need to do is set up your Crowdfunder account. We can send you a link to join our fundraiser! You then set up your own fundraising page with your own goals, which links to the Dadvengers crowdfunding page. It really is that simple!