SEVERN FREEWHEELERS SUPPORTERS PACK
Thank you for choosing or considering supportingSevern Freewheelers. We’ve put together some information for you that hopefully will help you in your promotional material. Don’t hesitate to ask if there’s anything else you require.
We’ve provided you with:
- Just Giving page details
- Text Giving details
- About Us
- Our logo
- Some images you can use
- A sample Sponsorship Form
- Gift Aid Form
You’ll find a brief synopsis below of what we do so you can cut / paste sections to suit your material.
In the zip folder there are a few images of the motorcycles, what we carry and our logo for you to use. All we ask if that you do not alter the logo in any way. Feel free to amend the other pictures to suit your material.
Please allow us to approve any promotional material that uses our logo, no request has ever been refused but we do need to be mindful of other sponsors and the sensitivities of the NHS.
If you mention what we carry, please do not make any reference, however oblique, to the fact we may, on occasion carry drugs.
Please note that permission to use our logo and any other material is confined to the primary event or activity you are using to support Severn Freewheelers.
Raising Funds
You can create your own Just Giving Page and link this to ours; you’ll find everything you need to know on how to do this here:
Text Giving
We’ve found that asking for a small amount has greater impact. We suggest you use the following text:
Text “BIKE20 £2” to 70070 to donate £2
Severn Freewheelers – about us
Severn Freewheelers are a registered charity (Charity No: 1120999) with two objectives.
Our primary objective: To relieve sickness and protect health by the provision of transport of urgently needed blood, drugs, human tissues and other medical requirements between hospitals and blood transfusion banks primarily but not exclusively in Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and North Wiltshire
Our secondary objective: To promote safer motorcycling.
Severn Freewheelers life started with some six members in October 2006, struggling to raise finance to go ‘live’ in one area with a vision to provide the service in Gloucestershire, Hereford & Worcester and North Wiltshire. Here we are just six years later, fully operational in our target areas with five motorcycles and over 100 members.
Severn Freewheelers EVS provides a lifesaving service to the NHSand is provided free of charge and funded entirely by public donation and sponsorship. We are often referred to as Blood Bikes or Bloodrunnersbut we do much more, transporting test samples, patient notes, X-rays, human milk and other essential medical supplies. In 2012, we made over 3,500 deliveries, covering a distance of some 140,000 miles.
SF EVS operates a fleet of specially adapted BMW R1200RT-P, Honda SR1300 and Honda VFR1200motorcycles, equipped with high-visibility markings, blue lights and sirens for emergency use, which enable us to save lives by delivering urgently required items safely and promptly. If our service did not exist hospitals would be forced to use a costly and potentially slow taxis or commercial couriers.
Severn Freewheelers EVS is run entirely by volunteers. Not one single member benefits financially from the operations of the charity, every penny donated goes entirely towards the running costs. All our riders hold an advanced motorcycling qualification, e.g. the advanced riding test by RoSPA or the IAM. We also have a team of fund raisers and telephone coordinators. Incoming requests from hospitals are categorised by the on-duty coordinator as non-urgent, urgent, or emergency and the nearest of our three (four at weekends) on-duty bikes is dispatched to assist.
We need to raise around £42k per annum in order to run the service and we budget to replace our motorcycle fleet every two / three years
Some cost examples:
£200 for a set of tyres
£1500 per month on fuel
£500 to insure one motorcycle for one year
£300 per month on servicing
£10 funds one life saving journey
Severn Freewheelers are founding members of the Nationwide Association of Blood Bikes.
Our next journey could save a life – maybe even yours.
Sponsorship Form
We’ve drafted an example Sponsorship Form – in the Zip file. We can claim Gift Aid on the sponsorship you raise so please make sure you get the detail that is required to enable us to make this claim.
We’ve left a section at the top for you to complete with who you are and what you’re doing to raise sponsorship.
Sponsorship Forms should be returned to:
Treasurer
Severn Freewheelers
PO Box 220
Cirencester
GL7 9BJ
Gift Aid Form
If you are donating money personally and you are a UK tax payer, please complete the Gift Aid Form in the zip file.