Why is fundraising important for WYC?
At Winchester Youth Counselling, every donation directly helps provide vital counselling, support groups, and wellbeing services for young people aged 11-25 across the Winchester district. Your generosity helps us ensure these essential resources remain accessible, free, and welcoming for every young person who needs them.
Fundraising ideas
Some other organised challenges you could try are the Three Peaks Challenge, Race to the Stones, Dulux Race to the King, The Conqueror Virtual Challenges, and many more!
Host a coffee morning
Get your family, friends, and colleagues together for coffee and cakes. Have fun baking (or buying, for the non-bakers!) some yummy cakes and treats to share.
Host a quiz
Feeling competitive? Why not host an in-person or virtual quiz. Check out Time to Change’s Mental Health Stigma Pub Quiz for some mental health related questions
Have a party!
Whether it’s a fancy ball, kids’ party, or laid-back film night, let your hair down and have a party! You could even create a birthday fundraiser on Facebook.
Choose your own challenge event!
WYC has selected three local challenge events run by Challenging Events Ltd (Winchester Half Marathon, The Hampshire Hilly Hundred and the Holly Hill Triathlon). We fund these challenge entry fees for our amazing athletes, who can then focus on training and sponsorship with support from a team of community participants and the WYC staff.
Check out our Fundraising Events Calendar and set your goals for the year.
Whatever your idea, we are here to support you, our small but dedicated team can help with collection buckets, leaflets and information.
Email fundraising@winchyc.org for support.
If you are signed up for another type of challenge, whether it be a 5km walk or swimming the channel, we would be so grateful if you chose WYC as your charity. Just hit the contact button and let us know your details and a bit about the challenge and – even better! – send us a photo of you or your team. We would love to share it on our social channels and make sure that we can say thank you properly!