When is shave for a cure week

Shavers, sprayers and sweeper-uppers should all wear disposable gloves during your private shave event. Read all the safety tips by logging into your fundraising dashboard and looking under the Policies and Safety tab on your home page. No, please do not use any of your fundraising money to buy hair spray. Your sponsors have donated money, believing it will go towards the charity, so you must give it directly to the Leukaemia Foundation.

If you need a receipt for donated goods, please contact the Leukaemia Foundation. Please note, Tax Office rules do not allow receipts to be written for donated services. Generally, participants choose to colour their hair using brightly coloured, non-permanent, spray-on colour. Non-permanent hair colour sprays are available in many leading pharmacies and large retail chains. Your local hairdresser can also offer advice about colouring your hair with non-permanent coloured hairsprays and waxes.

We recommend you go to your local pharmacy, large retail chain or hairdresser and purchase non-permanent coloured hairsprays. All sprays and chemicals could cause an asthma attack. Of course, it will. How quickly that happens varies from person to person. Please take a look at our useful resources. If you still require our logo, email us or call on When you sign up choose 'Outside Australia' as your location. When completing your address details, please select your country FIRST so that our system will accept your non-Australian address.

We suggest you log in to our website and do as much fundraising as you can online. Your online donors will still receive a receipt, but they'll need to check with their financial advisor about whether the donation is tax-deductible if they live outside Australia.

If you raise any funds in cash, bank that money in your account and donate through our website for the same amount using a credit card.

This year, shaves will take place in backyards, workplaces, hair salons and lounge rooms across the country. We ask anyone holding their private shave event to comply with up-to-date state COVID regulations. If anyone involved in the private shave event becomes unwell — we ask that you postpone your event or take it online using tools like Facebook or Instagram Live and Zoom.

Planning a virtual shave event means people can tune in and join you no matter where they are in a safe, fun way. Check out this cool resource. Click here to log in. Yes, spread the word! Tell your local media about your shave or colour. Click here for contact details.

Often the best place to start is your local hairdresser. Then check with others in your suburb or town. Do you have any friends that might own clippers? Due to social distancing restrictions in place to keep our communities safe, the Leukaemia Foundation encourages participants to shave at home.

The safety of the blood cancer community is always our highest priority. For the best tips and ideas, check out this cool resource. Leukaemia Foundation staff must take reasonable care for their health and safety and to not adversely affect the health and safety of others. Our team will always practice hygiene and other measures to protect against infections, including:. When you sign up, we'll give you your very own fundraising page where you can upload photos, post videos to your timeline, choose a goal and tell your story.

From within your fundraising dashboard, you can send emails asking for sponsorship. The email will contain a link to your fundraising page, where people can sponsor you with their credit card — easy! Start asking for sponsorship as early as possible. Remember that by asking someone to sponsor you, you are allowing them to support an extremely worthwhile cause.

Look at our fundraising tips! When you share your fundraising page onto social media for friends and family to support you, Facebook may prompt you to set up a fundraiser through them too. Facebook is an excellent way to fundraise. We love following your journey and celebrating your massive efforts alongside you, which is why we recommend that you use your official World's Greatest Shave fundraising page.

It's not always a safe or profitable thing to do. You can run a small raffle or trade promotion in aid of a charity, but the rules can be complicated and vary from state to state. It depends on how valuable the prizes are and whether you are selling tickets or giving a free access in return for a donation. Click here to find yours. Fundraising after you've shaved your head is significant too, as everyone can already see the incredible sacrifice you've made and how committed you are to the cause.

Spread the word and fundraise online, or get creative and raise money at work, school and in your community. Check out our fundraising tips! Ask your sponsors to visit www. A tax-deductible receipt is sent by email directly to your sponsor.

Yes, you can. However, please commit to colouring your hair with non-permanent hair colour whatever you raise and tell your sponsors you will shave once you reach your target.

This way, you are still doing something to your hair to help our cause. Our system only displays your fundraising once you've paid it in using a verified method.

Online methods - credit card or PayPal display immediately. While there are countless worthy causes, if you sign up and raise funds through World's Greatest Shave, you are legally required to direct all the money to the Leukaemia Foundation.

You are not able to decide to give your donor's money to another charity, however worthy or urgent that cause might be. Your fundraising enables the Leukaemia Foundation to continue investing in vital blood cancer research and free services to support thousands of Australian families every year. Proceed with payment using a credit card or PayPal. The receipt will automatically be emailed to the email address you entered. Alternatively, if you have used BPAY or banked cash at the bank, you can submit this receipt request form.

World's Greatest Shave is one of the most cost-effective fundraisers in Australia. We receive tremendous support from media organisations to extend our advertising, and we work hard to keep our costs low.

Your sponsorship will also support families when they need it most, with as much practical assistance and emotional support as they need, all free of charge. The Leukaemia Foundation funds high impact research, concentrating resources on projects with the most significant potential to benefit all people living with blood cancer.

We work with leading research groups, like the Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand and Cancer Australia, funding projects from PhD scholarships through to clinical trials. Your support is crucial in funding innovations in blood cancer diagnosis, treatments and ultimately a cure. The Shave for a Cure event will take place at Mercury Bay Area School on the 1 st October where students will have their locks cut or shorn to raise money for their teams joint fundraiser.

We have decided to do this brave thing for a great cause. We are shaving our hair off to remember loved ones and support future cancer patients. We want to help find more effective treatments to save lives and make sure people with cancer get the support they need to get through. Leukaemia and Blood Cancer New Zealand is a charity dedicated to supporting patients and their families with blood cancer or a related blood condition. Through fundraising the chariety supports core services including patient support programmes, research, information, awareness and advocacy.

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That's it! We manage automatic weekly payments until you're paid off. Full purchase details can be viewed anytime online. Hundreds of freshly-shaven heads will be out in force in March as Kiwis go bald for Shave for a Cure! The annual week which has seen thousands of Kiwis go bald over the last 16 years will be held from March 18 — Shave for a Cure is a great way to show support with blood cancer patients - many who lose their hair as a result of life-saving treatments such as chemotherapy.

LBC receives no government funding and Shave for Cure funds their work supporting New Zealand families living with a blood cancer or related condition. Money raised from Shave helps fund emotional and practical support for patients — as well as education, patient advocacy and investment in research to find a cure.

The event will likely attract media coverage and large crowds over the lunchtime period. Farmers generously support Shave for a Cure and they are hosting Shaves at 15 stores across the country. We need your help: We are asking Kiwis to get behind Shave week and sign up to Shave at their nearest Farmers store. If you are not brave enough to shave then feel free to donate to help make a difference in the lives of blood cancer patients www. Advertise with Eventfinda.

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