Information for Competitors

Your NSPCC contact is:
Matt Guy
NSPCC, Corporate Partnerships
Weston House
42 Curtain Road
London
EC2A 3NH

email: mattguy@nspcc.org.uk   Tel: 020 7825 2824

Personalise your team's page

Personalise your team's page by adding a message from the team, a team photo and your individual names. Once team member's names are loaded onto the site, sponsors can choose to support individual members of the team.

Please send photos, messages, and team member's names to: mattguy@nspcc.org.uk

Speed up changes to your league position

By getting sponsored online, you can make sure your teams total is up to date sooner than if you send sponsorship money in the post. This also means any changes to your league position will be updated quicker! If you would like any offline sponsorship to be reflected in the league table, please email Matt Guy at mattguy@nspcc.org.uk

Banking Procedures

• Option 1 - Make payments through the 'Sponsor a Team' part of this website.
• Option 2 - Send your money in the form of a cheque made payable to 'NSPCC Charity'. Please send cheques with a compliment slip stating the Team Name and that the money is for the Microsoft UK Challenge 2008.
  
  You can then send them to:
  Matt Guy , Corporate Partnerships
  NSPCC
  Weston House
  42 Curtain Road
  London
  EC2A 3NH
  
  
• Option 3 - If a company sponsors you, they may prefer to be invoiced by the NSPCC for the payment. In this case we can issue an invoice. If you would like to do this please contact Matt Guy on 020 7825 2824.

Get your suit sponsored

Give your fundraising a great head start and sell advertising space on your team suits! This is a really easy and fast way to raise money for the NSPCC. See link below for simple step by step instructions on how to get your suit sponsored and how to get support from your suppliers, clients or local companies.

Fundraising ideas

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Helpful documents

• Additional personalisation (Word 177k)
• NSPCC Pledge Form (pdf 416k)
• Suit sponsorship (pdf 215k)
• Microsoft Challenger Puzzle (pdf 7.4mb)
• Microsoft Challenger Answers (pdf 300kb)
• Microsoft Challenger Answer sheet (Word 119k)
• Microsoft Challenger Getting Started (pdf 1.4mb) Microsoft UK Challenge broke all the fundraising records in 2007, raising £550,000 to protect children. See how the teams did it last year and get inspired for 2008.
• Microsoft Challenger Wallpaper (pdf 3.7mb)
• The Ergo Challenge.pdf (pdf 1.0mb)
• Challenger Six Nations Fundraising Ideas (pdf 877k) Rugby related fundraisers to use throughout February and March
• Six Nations Sweepstake (Word 124k) A simple competition that will help you raise money in the office or at home.
• Printable Fundraising Handbook (pdf 247k) A guide starting your fundraising for the NSPCC, full of ideas, hints and tips to help inspire you and your team.
• Sponsor Form (pdf 146k) Use this form to collect pledges of support from friends, family and colleagues. Alternatively ask them to sponsor you online at www.nspcc.org.uk/challenger
• How the NSPCC spends your money (Word 31k) The money your team raises at the Microsoft UK Challenge 2008 is vital in supporting the NSPCC's work with vulnerable children. Read this document to find out how we can use your funds to protect children.
• 3 minute Helpline clip (mp3 2.8mb) Listen to a Helpline call and hear for yourself how important the service that you are raising money for is to children.
• Bonus Ball Bonanza Information (pdf 610k)
• Bonus Ball Bonanza Poster (pdf 420k) An easy and fun way to raise money in the office, at your local pub, among your football team or at home. Use the Bonus Ball Bonanza to add to your fundraising total month after month.

Keep checking this page for new fundraising ideas, hints and tips on how to get your team up the league table, as well as pictures and videos of fundraising events you can try.

Meet the teams

Select a team to view their fundraising progress, (drop down box with link to individual team pages currently on the site)