Face to face



Jersey Hospice Care: million pound lottery (MPL)

With a guaranteed income of £500,000 every year from this event alone, this is a great example of taking a successful commercial idea and making it work for your charity. 


Christian Aid’s text for nets

This exhibit is a great example of modern fundraising. While there is a lot of talk about fundraising by text messages, rarely do we find an appeal that makes it so easy, so compelling and so tangible.


Portuguese Red Cross – the store that sells hope.

This exhibit demonstrates innovation, creativity and a new way to make people feel good about giving.


The Wishing Well Appeal for Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital

50 years laterIt’s difficult to do justice to a capital campaign as wide, and complex. This is a condensed summary of a major capital campaign which, at the time, was the largest appeal ever mounted in the UK.


Faisalabad’s first cycle rally for peace and the environment

cycle rallyCampaigning for social awareness causes is difficult enough in most countries but in Pakistan it’s a very new activity, with few options for influencing public opinion on any scale. This initiative therefore is bold and ambitious, but what’s really remarkable is how successful it was, particularly in the spontaneous support it generated from members of the public


The Magic Bus: corporate customers pay for a facility that helps poor kids

real challengesHow corporate customers enable an innovative charity to raise money to pay for a unique development facility for disadvantaged youngsters.


The atheist bus campaign

atheist bus This is a perfect match between a brilliant idea that generates real public interest and the technology that can make it easily happen.


Sense’s brilliant style for face-to-face fundraising

Sense F2FImagine the dark and silent world of a deaf and blind child. That’s what Sense’s street fundraisers asked passers-by to do. Those who stopped to listen were treated to a charming, evocative story that eased them effortlessly into the charity’s case for support.


Greenpeace International: the reinvention of face-to-face fundraising

Face to Face GreenpeaceAcross the world the approach Greenpeace developed for direct dialogue changed the way fundraising organisations recruit new monthly direct debit donors. Raising millions, perhaps billions of pounds in the process.


Give India’s Joy of Giving Week

This is a truly great initiative and one that we’re sure will be a big success. The Joy of Giving week is a first of its kind in India, and rather than being an individual fundraising activity, it acts as a platform for many NGOs across the country to raise funds for their operations.


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Thank you

SOFII gratefully acknowledges the generous and catalytic support of the Joffe Foundation, UK, which has made possible SOFII's growth and development to date.

'My Trust is delighted with its investment in SOFII. We are very pleased that we have been able to be of assistance in the launch of this important initiative.'
Lord Joel Joffe.

About SOFII

SOFII is supervised by The SOFII Foundation, a registered charity in the UK, No 1124743.

SOFII’s development director is Sue Kershaw. She can be reached at sue@sofii.org

'We love SOFII. Next year we hope to help again.' 
Lynne, HMA, Vancouver.

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