Rutland Water Family Challenge

Every child deserves the best start in life

A happy home, a safe place to play and access to quality education, medical care, and nutrition.

Currently, 1 in 5 children worldwide are living in extreme poverty, and do not have access to these simple necessities and rights. Instead, their life is incredibly challenging, with the risk of illiteracy, disease, child labour, lifelong poverty and even death.

Islamic Relief invests in their future and provides long-term support for their families, carers, and local communities to provide long-lasting, safe sustainable solutions to poverty and inequality.

Around the globe, Islamic Relief aims to combat the main issues faced by children – providing child-friendly safe spaces, essential healthcare, water and food aid, and a quality education.

Islamic Relief also empowers communities, provides family livelihood support, and develops long-term solutions to poverty and critical issues such as human trafficking (child labour) and child marriage.

Fundraising Ideas

Smarties: Buy 20 tubes of Smarties and give them to 20 of your friends. Your one condition? Once they’ve enjoyed the Smarties, they return the tubes back to you filled with as many £1 coins as they can collect in a week. You’d be surprised how much you can raise using this tactic!

Bake Sale: A true classic. How about adding a theme to your fundraiser depending on the cause you’re raising for? E.g. a blue theme if you’re fundraising to provide clean water. Or you could really go for it, and sell other homemade delights alongside your delicious baked goods like milkshakes, smoothies or classic desserts (trifle, cake & custard etc.).

Car Wash: Probably the most fun thing you could do, and all you need is water, a bucket, a sponge and some car shampoo. You could do this at your school or workplace, or you could even ask a local business to let you use their grounds/car park. Try to make it more interesting by doing it in fancy dress and get your family and friends in on all the fun!

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