Individual D-Day Toolkit
- How can an individual help with D-Day?
- What is the idea behind D-Day?
- Explaining D-Day to other people
How can an individual help with D-Day?
You might want to organise a D-Day to help your chosen charity or to take place in your place of work. There are three key steps to follow, in creating such a link:
- Use the contacts you already have, through friends and family, to get in touch with people. Local business may be interested; you can find charities using the list of Association of Charity Shops’ member charities - click here. Although you will need to approach charities through their headquarters, you can also search for local shops using our online database.
- Explain what D-Day is, and offer your services in helping it to come into being.
- Promote the idea to local newspapers and radio stations. Get people excited, and interested.
What is the idea behind D-Day?
A company’s employees donate one good quality item each on a specific day. This could be a piece of clothing, a book or a record, depending on what the shop needs. There are several advantages to this way of working:
- The donation ought to be of good quality, as people are not being asked to part with a lot of things, or even to fill a plastic bag which they might associate with a binbag.
- People are getting a taste for donation, seeing how easy it is to help others and clear out their wardrobes and shelves.
- As a lot of people are taking part, there is still a great level of donation.
Explaining D-Day to other people
It’s important that people understand why D-Day is important. You will need to be able to explain to what you are trying to do and why:
- tell them about the benefits to charity, and what money raised from shops can help with (the charity’s website will have lots of helpful facts and stories)
- stress the green message in donation, telling people about the environmental benefits of reuse
- get people to understand that they will not have a lot of extra work to do
- make people feel that this is an easy way to benefit help the environment, charity, and the community