At All We Can, we don’t believe in telling our local partners what they should be doing to tackle problems in their own communities. We know that local people are the experts in their context and are best placed to identify solutions.

We’re bringing that same principle to All We Canuary. Rather than telling you to run, bake, or sing, we know that you are best placed to decide what good fundraising looks like for you!

While we are so grateful for your fundraising all year round, we have decided that January provides a good focus point in the year.

Firstly, because it is when we launch our new campaign, and secondly, because many of you will be taking on new year’s resolutions and may want to use that as an opportunity to create a positive impact at the same time. We hope All We Canuary can offer some added motivation for those already taking on challenges at the start of a new year.

All We Canuary is a great chance for schools to engage their students in fundraising, and to learn about global poverty. 

Month-long-Events

For most people, All We Canuary will involve tracking a particular activity for the whole month of January. There are a couple of options for adapting this concept in a school:

1. One possibility would be to decide on a particular activity for the whole school and track the cumulative total of everyone’s efforts. For example, perhaps as a school you could run/walk the 5,000km from the UK to Liberia! Different year groups could also compete against each other to do the most of whatever activity is chosen. 
2. Alternatively, each year group/form class could choose their own challenge so there are lots of different activities happening across the school, and the children have more ownership over their fundraising.

There might also be a particular aspect of your school’s vision or curriculum that would tie in nicely. In all cases, students could seek sponsors per-action (e.g. £1 per mile) or general sponsorship (e.g. ‘please sponsor me as I try to do as many miles as I can in January!’).

One-off Events

Instead of a challenge over the course of a month, you could do all the ........ you can on a particular day – allowing for a more intensive and focussed fundraising event that will be easy to invite families and the local community to.

While you have total freedom to design your own challenge, here are some ideas to get the creative juices flowing. For any of these you might like to set a specific goal (e.g. I will bake 200 cakes in January) or leave it open-ended (e.g. I will cycle as many miles as I can):

• Run/cycle/swim all the miles you can.
• Read all the books you can.
• Knit/crochet all the hats you can.
• Bake all the cakes you can.
• Sing all the hymns you can.
• Play all the board games you can.
• Use as little single-use plastic as you can.
• Do acts of kindness for as many people as you can.

You’ve signed up and decided what challenge to take on. What next?
Here you can find even more resources to help you get the most out of your fundraising in January.

While individual congregation members can engage with All We Canuary, it is also easy for whole churches to get involved.

For most people, All We Canuary will involve tracking a particular activity for the whole month of January. There are a couple of options for adapting this concept in a church: 

1. One possibility would be to decide on a particular activity for the whole church and track the cumulative total of everyone’s efforts. For example, perhaps as a church you could run/walk the 5,000km from the UK to Liberia!
2. Alternatively, if your church has small groups, perhaps different groups could take on different challenges, or even compete against each other doing the same activity!