Charity Fundraisers

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If you’re trying to running a charity event, your goal is pretty clear: maximise profit through ticket sales and concessions, which can be passed back to your charity.

Here at Simply Events we can organise all aspects of your charity event, including;

Venue logistics & catering management (permits etc)
Speakers/Presenters
Activities/Entertainment
Publicity/Promotion (social media, promotional material etc)
Registration (online signup, payment & trading)
Sponsorship Management

One of our top tips is:

Choose the right venue

Always be open and as flexible as possible, early planning means you can investigate all the options and you can then seek out the cheapest option that meets your needs here at Simply Events we can venue find you, we have a bank of beautiful venues that we work with on a regular basis, we can negotiate with suppliers and arrange your event from start to finish bearing in mind your budget constraints.

Thank you for making my husband’s 40th birthday celebration such an incredible success. Steve and I have literally received dozens of messages from our friends thanking us for a great night. From your early assistance, to the final weeks, to the day of, everything you touched was wonderful and exceeded my expectations. The venue was just what I had envisioned-elegant yet fun and trendy, the food was delicious and the DJ knew just what music to play to get everyone out dancing and having fun. I am also grateful to you for the extra effort you put in to make sure my slideshow presentation went off without a hitch. There is no one that I would have trusted more with that laptop! You are a true professional, an expert in your field, organised, patient and always calm, cool and collected. I just can’t sing your praises enough and would recommend you to anyone looking for an event planner.

Big thanks to you and Lara for a first rate job on Saturday – we have had a wonderful crop of thank you letters – it appears that our friends enjoyed the evening. The Three Waiters were a huge success – thank you for your recommendation. Matt’s food also came in for glowing praise – the beef really was melt in the mouth. Our thanks to you both again – you were stars!

Melanie at Simply Events was on the committee on the inaugural Great Dorset Bake Sale committee and played a key role in helping this charity event raise over £5,000 for a local cause. Her ideas, contacts and energy proved invaluable and she was a pleasure to work with throughout.

First class service from the Simply Events team at our function at Dean Court. We had a tough crowd to impress, but Simply Events delivered.

Thank you and the wonderful staff at Simply Gourmet for helping make Codestone’s ‘Hogwarts Christmas Ball’ a fantastic event this year. We have had lots of comments this year saying it was the best one yet and this goes down to the food being excellent, so I really have set my next year’s event to another level. I can’t believe you managed to do all that catering in a few hours and having to run across grass to get the food over to the hall, unbelievable. Your staff were brilliant and so polite with everything, I will be highly recommending Simply Gourmet to anyone who is looking to hold an event, thank you so much.

I used the services of Simply Events for some charitable fundraising work which involved arranging various events for me from assisting with venue sourcing and logistics of the events to assisting with ticket sales and promotion and coordinating the events at the event itself. I found the service to be excellent and would not hesitate in recommending the services of Simply Events to any company or individual looking for assistance with planning a corporate or private event – they have superb connections with venues and suppliers in the area and ran the events in a professional and very organised way.

The party was absolutely brilliant and we have had loads of messages from people saying how amazing it was. So thank you so much and I would definitely use Simply Events again

We would just like to say a HUGE thank you for yesterday, you made the whole afternoon run so smoothly and we were able to relax and enjoy the occasion so much more. We were all quite chilled in the morning before it all got underway and normally we would have been running round like headless chickens. The Canapés were delicious and the sweetie cart was so yummy!

Such a super day that Melanie and her team did for our Hearnes 20th anniversary celebration. Her planning and ideas were perfect and she laid on the most fantastic day for our staff. Because her eye was always poised over every detail, we could thoroughly enjoy the day and relax knowing everything would go to plan. We had a super day on the water, picnic lunch at Brownsea, treasure hut, booze cruise with live music culminating in a meal at Shell Bay. We even had seats to watch the sun go down! Every attention to detail meant our expectations were certainly over delivered. This special celebration was a huge success and we are very thankful to Simply Events for everything they did. We will certainly be using them for our next celebration. Many thanks to you all.

Just to say a big fat thank you for last week. I truly could not have survived the evening without you. I cannot believe how relaxed everybody was and how much they enjoyed the evening. You were absolutely brilliant, the food fabulous and then at the end of the night it was if a fairy had cast her magic wand and the place was so clean and tidy it was if you hadn’t been. There is no way I would put on a future event without you involved, I now appreciate what having an event co-ordinator on board means