YWCA England & Wales

do something Chocolatey

do something chocolatey

Indulge your taste for chocolate and raise funds for YWCA by doing something chocolatey this April.

Make your favourite chocolate cakes and invite friends round for a charity chocolate morning, or take cakes to work and sell them to colleagues. They won’t be able to resist!

Any sum you raise – no matter how big or small – will go to help young women.

Chocolatey fundraising ideas

Download our chocolatey fundraising guide here. Perhaps you've got lots of chocolatey fundraising ideas of your own, too? Here are some to get you started:

Have a chocolate morning - forget coffee mornings, hold a chocolate morning - a delicious way to get together with friends. Invite friends round for a chinwag and a cup of hot choc in return for a small donation to YWCA. Or how about a chocolate evening? I should cocoa! Glass of creme de cacao and slice of black forest anyone?

Chocolate cake sale - bake some chocolate treats - cakes, brownies, whatever you fancy - and sell them to your colleagues and friends at work, at school, at the pub, or in your community group to raise funds for YWCA.

Big chocolate fudge raffle - use your baking skills to make a big chocolate fudge cake and raffle it.

Chocolate quiz - devise a quiz sheet of general knowledge questions - or on any subject you like, football, pop music, whatever - and offer a prize of a huge bar of chocolate. Sell your quiz sheet to friends, colleagues, people at your club or pub for £1 a go - all proceeds to YWCA. Have all your quizzes returned by your deadline, mark them and award your chocolatey prize!

Diet amnesty - for dieters, health freaks, gym-users and sufferers of 'chocolate guilt'. If you've been resisting the call of cocoa, why not give in and treat yourself to a small bar of something. Assuage your guilt by making a donation to YWCA.

Choc-tastic recipes

Check out these choc-tastic recipes from some of Britain's most popular cooks.

Things to help you

We've created these useful resources to make your event run as smoothly as chocolate!

• use these ecards as invitations to your event - quick, easy, free!
• promote your event with this poster
• send these invitations
• just add a cocktail stick to these flags to put on your cakes
• wrap this label around a jam jar to collect donations
• use this Gift Aid form to make donations worth 28 per cent more
• pay in your donations with this chocolate event form

Health and choco-ethics

Eating chocolatey things is lovely and elevates our mood. It has potential health benefits too: cocoa or dark chocolate is good for the circulatory system and it may helpful as an anticancer, a brain stimulator, a cough preventor and have antidiarrhoeal effects. But take care not to over-indulge! Consuming large quantities of any energy-rich food such as chocolate increases the risk of obesity unless you exercise to burn off those calories.

The chocolate industry is a global billion-dollar business and much of raw material, cacao, is produced in Africa. Chocolate slavery is widespread today in West Africa so before you buy your chocolate find out more about it and buy ethically. Asking if it's 'fair trade' is a good place to start.

Most of all, enjoy your chocolate sensibly, ethically and responsibly.

Paying in the money you raise

The easiest way to pay in the funds you raise is online using this form. If you'd like to pay in your funds another way please call us on 01865 304205 or email us.