Donation Station is an activity that you can run throughout the year to help support the work of Cancer Research UK.
Friends, family and colleagues donate bags of unwanted items to your Donation Station collection point, which can then be sold in a Cancer Research UK shop.
At the end of this year, we will let your Relay Chair know what your team's efforts have helped to purchase in terms of our groundbreaking work.
For example, by helping to collect around 2000 bags, you could fund one cancer information nurse for a year, ensuring a private and confidential cancer information service for those who need it.
Please note: Donation Station activity will not directly contribute to your team target, but it is an additional way to support Cancer Research UK’s life-saving work and help to stock your local Cancer Research UK shop.
How to run a Donation Station:
- Start by ordering a Donation Station pack. This contains a step-by-step guide, posters and donation bags.
- Choose a location for your Donation Station collection point. It can be run anywhere that a group of people get together: a workplace, a gym, a community club or supermarket.
- Promote your Donation Station using the materials provided in your pack.
- Ask everyone to return their bags of donations to your collection point (rather than directly to a Cancer Research UK shop) so that every bag counts towards your bonus.
- Sit back and watch the bags roll in!
- Then drop the bags off at a Cancer Research UK shop or if you have over 20 bags of donations, you can request a van driver collection – details of how to book a collection are provided in your Donation Station pack.
- Either way please make sure you complete the Relay Donation Station Result form included in the pack and get the Stock Collector or Shop Manager to fill in their section.
- Send the form to your Relay Team Captain who will pass to the Relay Committee to for their records.
Get your Donation Station pack here. Good luck and have fun!