Make it Crisis this Christmas Your guide
How will you Make it Crisis this Christmas? Each 26.08 you raise means we can welcome one more homeless guest to Crisis at Christmas our own life-changing Christmas event. So have fun, get together and help end homelessness for good. Help end homelessness There are so many ways you can Make it Crisis this Christmas. Whatever you decide to do, the money you raise will make a huge difference to people with nowhere to call home.
Sing out loud Go carol singing door to door, or raise the roof at home to raise money for Crisis. Bake off Hold a Christmas baking competition. Who will be your best baker this Christmas? Get the word out Christmas gets booked up, so make sure everyone has your event date in their diary early. Why not start an email or Facebook group to remind people? Decorate your event Turn your Christmas gathering into a fundraiser with our balloons, banner, hats and posters.
Christmas jumper day Pay a little to put on your cheesiest Christmas jumpers at home, at work anywhere you choose to hold your Christmas event. Christmas quiz Get everyone involved with a quiz at Christmas time to raise money for Crisis.
Christmas walk Fundraise on your family walk or work outing to help people take their first step out of homelessness. Christmas dinner Invite friends and family to join you for a special festive meal and make donations as their contribution.
Changing lives and ending homelessness In 13 Crisis at Christmas centres, we ll be laying on Christmas dinner, fresh clothes, health checks, housing advice and much more for people who are homeless this winter. Crisis at Christmas can also be the start of someone leaving homelessness behind for good. The need is great this Christmas. With soaring rents, evictions and a housing shortage, homelessness has been rising in recent years. We know from our own research that approximately 160,000 households across Britain are experiencing the worst forms of homelessness, and the number of people sleeping rough is projected to rise by 76 per cent in the next decade if things carry on as they are. But it doesn t have to be this way. We believe no one should be facing homelessness in Britain today. If we work together, we can end it.
Enter our sweepstake and play your part in helping to end homelessness. For the suggested donation, write your name and guess above. If you re the closest to the total (in your host s guide), you re the winner. Registered Charity Numbers: E&W1082947, SC040094 What s in your pack? We ve included all sorts of things in your pack to help you Make it Crisis this Christmas and help end homelessness. Make it Crisis this Christmas Decorations Use the banner and balloons to decorate your home, your workplace, your canteen wherever you choose to hold your event. Collection box Your easy-to-assemble collection box is a great way to collect donations on the day of your event. Make it Crisis this Christmas Recipe card Daniel s mince pies Daniel works as the Head Training Chef at Crisis Skylight Oxford so while he s cooking for the café s customers, he s teaching skills to people who are homeless too. Mincemeat Ingredients 100g butter 75g almonds (chopped) 225g caster sugar 1 tsp mixed spice 75g raisins half tsp ground cinnamon 75g currents zest and juice of 1 large orange 175g sultanas 225ml of brandy (optional) Method 1 Melt the butter and the sugar in a pan. 2 Add the fruit to the pan and mix. 3 Add the almonds, cinnamon and mixed spice. 4 Add the zest and juice of the orange, then simmer for 10 minutes. 5 Remove from the heat and add the brandy, if using. 6 Cool down the mix, then place inside a container with a lid and leave until needed (best to allow at least 1 week before use to allow the fruit to take in all the flavour). Alternatively you can buy the mincemeat premade ready to use for the mince pies. Make it Crisis this Christmas Sweepstake How many hot meals were provided to guests at Crisis at Christmas last year? Recipe cards Classic gingerbread is great for bakers of any age, while the mince pie recipe comes from Daniel, Head Training Chef at Crisis Skylight Oxford. Sweepstake Invite people to guess how many hot dinners were served at Crisis at Christmas last year (the answer is 37,552). The closest guess wins a prize of your choice. How to play Donation and Gift Aid form When people at your event make a donation, encourage them to fill in their details here and we can claim Gift Aid an extra 25 per cent. and lots of ideas Read on for inspiring ideas to help Make it Crisis this Christmas. Why not let us know what you re doing at mic@crisis.org.uk?
Make it count After your event is over, just send back the money you ve raised, along with the paying-in slip on your letter, in the return envelope to: Freepost Plus RTKS-ZCXS-HSBT, Make it Crisis this Christmas, 126 Fairlie Road, SLOUGH, SL1 4PY. You can also pay in the money you ve raised online by visiting www.crisis.org.uk/makeitcrisis You can also get in touch with Make it Crisis this Christmas team directly to help pay in the money you ve raised mic@crisis.org.uk 08000 38 48 38 Photo credits: Ali Tollervey, GILBERT MURRAY/stockimo, Alamy stock photo, Able Images. Crisis UK (trading as Crisis). Registered Charity Numbers: E&W1082947, SC040094. Company Number: 4024938. Crisis UK is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales.