Host Better World Gifts

Running Better World Gifts is about connecting with your community and sharing your love for helping families living in poverty. As you bring your friends and family together around your stall, you can have an even bigger impact. When you decide to run Better World Gifts, you choose whether you want to run it in-person, online or both. Either way, you’ll get all the resources you need and plenty of support to make it fun and easy! It’s three easy steps:

Let your friends, family or local community know about your stall;
Explain the Better World Gifts cards to them and help them make their donation (paper form or online);
Mail any donation forms back to us.

See? Easy as.

The difference? Just a bit of time. Of course, you can run Better World Gifts either as a stall or as a party. See what you think:

A Better World Gifts stall runs for consecutive weeks over a period of time – you choose how long and where. Maybe it’s at your church, school, office or local community markets. We send you the cards, set up a personalised online stall, and provide you with stories and resources to help you run your stall. We’ll also provide you with information on how to keep your stall COVID safe. Don’t panic: we’ll provide you all the phone support you might need as well as other prompts throughout that period.

A Better World Gifts party is a one-off event where you invite people to come and donate to purchase Better World Gifts cards. It works well as a Christmas or Birthday party to help raise money for families in need instead of buying other gifts. Better World Gifts doesn’t have to be the focus but we’ll send you cards, set up a personalised online stall, and provide you with resources to help you, well, party at your party! We’ll even give you lots of stories to share about how the cards make an impact. And who doesn’t want to hear a good story at a party?!

Once you register, we will send you a Gift Stall kit and/or set you up with an online stall. We’ll help you to organise your stall each step of the way.
If you registered for an in-person stall, watch your mailbox for your package. Your kit will include:

• Simple instructions and forms
• Printed catalogues of the Better World Gifts card options, gift cards and envelopes
• Special posters and other promotional resources – including Colouring In Templates for children!

If you registered for an online stall, we’ll send you an email with a link to your online stall when it is ready. The email will include:

• Your unique url for you to share your personalised stall with your friends and family
• A QR code for easy access to your stall
• Training videos and information on how to manage your online stall

Whether you’ve registered for an online stall, in-person or both, you’ll receive digital resources to help promote your stall. That includes powerpoint presentations, photos, stories and more. Find those resources below.

Our helpful Supporter Engagement team are also always on hand to help you with any questions you have as you run your stall. You can reach them via email at [email protected]org.au or call them on 1300 789 991.

You can host your stall wherever you like (as long as you have appropriate permission). There are hosts like you around Australia – here are some of the places others have held their stall:

• In church
• From home (you can consider hosting a Better World Gifts party!)
• A local shop or small business
• In the office
• At the gym
• At a local or school market
• At a conference

All ideas and locations welcome. If you think you need extra cards or resources where you’re hosting, then let us know and we’ll try and help as much as possible. And remember to take a photo of your stall and tag us on Facebook or Instagram!

Because really, this is an easy and important way to make a difference for those in poverty, one card at a time, thanks to your better world gift!