Reprieve

Work with your friends, school, church, company or on your own to raise funds for Reprieve.

To give you some fundraising inspiration:

• £25,000 pays for a lawyer to work on death penalty cases in the US full-time for one year
• £1,000 buys a DNA test for a wrongfully convicted prisoner on death row
• £500 purchases a flight for a lawyer to visit prisoners in Guantánamo Bay
• £50 buys half an hour of professional translation of interviews with victims and witnesses of extraordinary renditions
• £5 pays for a single police report in a death penalty case

Reprieve represents over 15 clients currently detained in Guantánamo Bay. Here are 30 ways you can lend a hand (theirs are handcuffed).

If any of these ideas appeal to you, please get in touch with us at: info@reprieve.org.uk. We'd love to hear from you, and might be able to help by providing materials, information - and definitely loads of encouragement! In fact, we've developed a downloadable Handy hints for safe and successful fundraising document to get you started. Good luck!

1. Become a Reprieve Supporter – for £5 a month you can pay for that essential police report and receive our quarterly newsletter.
2. Make a regular donation by setting up a banker’s order, to help enable Reprieve to honour our long-term commitments to our clients
3. Become a Reprieve Fellow or volunteer
4. Create your own Fundraising page for Reprieve at Justgiving.com
5. Join our mailing list by emailing us at info@reprieve.org.uk
6. Ask Reprieve to give a presentation to your university or company. To do so email us at info@reprieve.org.uk
7. Support Reprieve while you search the web at everyclick.com
8. Trek the Inca trails, explore the Ghobi Desert and raise money for Reprieve by taking part in a Charity Challenge sponsored event on our behalf.
9. Get fit by completing the London Marathon, or if that sounds a bit much, Great Run and City Race are slightly less demanding, but just as fun. Or go international with the help of Sports Tour International.
10. Tell people about Reprieve: blog about us, re-tweet our news, take action on facebook
11. Stay up-to-date on Reprieve news by joining our group on facebook and Twitter
12. Buy a Reprieve product, we've got t-shirts, dvds, charity dog tags and at Christmas you can send all your friends and family a Reprieve Christmas card.
13. Come along to our events
14 Get Reprieve news on YouTube
15 Set up payroll giving for Reprieve, and organise a talk for Reprieve to come and talk to others about payroll giving at your workplace
16 For celebrations, ask for donations in lieu of presents
17 Buy a book from the Dorset Book Store Online – 10% of profits will go to Reprieve
18 Work for Reprieve. Interested applicants should keep an eye on our website
19 Organise a silent auction
20 Throw a Reprieve dinner party to raise money for Reprieve. We've got some great recipe ideas for a Caribbean night in. Mary's dinner party might give you some inspiration.
21 Organise a concert or karaoke night to raise awareness of music torture: www.zerodB.org
22 Write a book about one of Reprieve’s clients
23 Organise a poetry or book reading of Reprieve literature and charge admission
24 If you’re an eBay user, set your account so that a percentage of your sales benefit Reprieve
25 Purchase a DVD of In Prison my Whole Life. If you enter Reprieve's distribution code, LS952, when you make the purchase, we will receive 20% of the profits of each sale
26 Do a Jump for Justice by throwing yourself out of a plane as part of a tandem Skydive. There are parachute centres around the country and you can check out where they are here.
27 Hold a “Guantanamo Garden” flower sale
28 Have a letter-writing party, writing letters to prisoners to offer them hope and encouragement
29 Make a donation to Reprieve by shopping with Fund it Frog on Facebook
30 If you have a car, auction a ride to work for the week