Individual sponsorship

We'd like you to do your very best to help us reach our fundraising target of £200,000 this year.

When you register to take part in the 6 Peaks challenge, as a team member you can make use of our online sponsorship facility. Here you can create an online sponsorship page that enables your friends, family and colleagues to sponsor you very easily via credit card.

Once registered to take part, the best way to collect sponsorship is by setting up a Just Giving page. Sponsorship raised this way is automatically credited to the team/individual and goes directly to WaterAid's bank account, minimizing the effort and administration for everyone.

>> Set up your online sponsorship page today with www.justgiving.com

Download an offline (paper) sponsorship form (PDF 225Kb)

Corporate sponsorship

WaterAid is offering your company or organisation the unique opportunity to sponsor one of the 6 Peaks mountains for £2,000 + VAT at the prevailing rate.

In return your company or organisation will be acknowledged on the 6 Peaks website, with a hyperlink from your logo directly though to your own website.

In addition, your logo will appear at the Mountain Control post for your chosen mountain, and a representative of your company will be invited to the 6 Peaks celebration events.

To secure a corporate sponsorship package please contact us and we will be more than happy to help.

Sponsorship tips

There are a host of ways to maximise your sponsorship; here are just a few ideas:

• Think laterally when deciding who to contact and make sure you email all potential supporters - sponsors come in many forms! Apart from contacting close friends, family and colleagues, why not contact overseas friends, former colleagues, college friends, fellow members of church, sports clubs and so on.



• Add a link to your email signature. Adding your Justgiving link to your personal and/or work signature helps ensure that all your contacts are made aware of your efforts, and you may even gain some unexpected sponsors! Don't forget to ask permission from your work to add the signature.



• Send email updates on your progress, it is very important to engage your supporters when you can, make sure they know where you are up to on your training and sponsorship, and what a potential donation will buy for WaterAid. People often intend to sponsor you but do not get round to it on the first request. From our experience, reminding people does help them to carry out their good intentions.



• Ask the web editor at your work to add your site to the intranet or website. Workplaces enjoy promoting their staff's socially spirited efforts and it could get you a lot of extra sponsorship.



• Publicise your efforts on the notice board in your gym, church, college, children's school, pub, etc. Create a simple poster telling people about what you are doing and why, and ask any interested parties to sponsor you via your online fundraising page. You would be surprised at the amount of people who receive sponsorship from complete strangers.



• Advertise your web address via any publicity drives you initiate. If you are carrying out any publicity surrounding your participation in the event, for example contacting local papers or radio stations, make sure you include your link on any information you produce for them.



• Use Facebook to maximize your sponsorship. Find out more on the WaterAid website.



• Don't forget to ask your sponsors who are UK tax payers to Gift Aid* their donation.

* To qualify for Gift Aid, you must pay as much UK income and / or capital gains tax as WaterAid will reclaim in each tax year (6 April to 5 April), currently 25p for every £1 you donate. The Government will add an additional 3p, so WaterAid will receive 28p.

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Without the support of the following organisations the 6 Peaks Challenge 2009 would not have been possible. Many thanks to: Kelda Group, Yorkshire Water, Discover Leisure, Stena Line, Isle of Man Steam Packet, Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland, Ordnance Survey Ireland, Isle of Man Survey.