Partnering with Zimkids in your community
Sign up to our monthly newsletter
Invite your friends to sign up to our monthly newsletter: email info@zimkids.org. This is the best way to stay up to date with all the fantastic work Zimkids is doing and to discover how to get involved.
Creative sponsorship
Ask your family and friends to sponsor YOU to do something wacky and wonderful for Zimkids. We’ve had many people do this for Zimkids already including… a head teacher sky-diving for Zimkids, raising £500; a local pastor ran the Great North Run and raised £700; someone else has organized 2 jazz concerts raising over £1200 for Zimkids; and a small business funded the production of a CD with all the profits (£1400) going to Zimkids.
Promotional events
Raise awareness of Zimkids with friends by hosting a coffee morning to tell people about our work. You could ask your local libraries, community centres, places of worship and coffee shops to have some Zimkids flyers (email info@zimkids.org).
Volunteer
Find out if anyone is interested in volunteering for Zimkids. There is a small volunteer team in the UK who would love your help, whether that is helping us with promotions, our website, visiting schools and community groups, looking after our donors and much more (email info@zimkids.org)
One off projects
Ask family and friends to get involved in a specific project for Zimkids like sending clothes out to Zimkids. In 2007 we sent to Zimbabwe 187 school bags, and in 2008 we sent over 300 wash kits. Perhaps your friends have their own ideas of what they’d like to do for the children of Zimbabwe? Please also consider fundraising to send the items out as post is very expensive.
Zimkids Events
Invite everyone you know to attend UK-based Zimkids events (see ‘News & Events’ for up and coming events).
Become a Shamwari (‘friend’ in the local Zimbabwean language, Shona)
This means becoming a regular giver to the work. You can donate to Zimkids directly – click the ‘Donate’ button on our home page for more info.
