Finathon®

Your guide to fundraising with Project AWARE

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How many people can you get swimming to end finning?

Let’s GO

Seek sponsorship, raise funds and have fun!

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The clock’s ticking for vanishing shark species. You can join the race to protect them.

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Get

Swimming

to End

Finning

Create Your OnlineFundraising Page

If 25 Finathon™ team mates raise $100 each that’s a team target of $2500.

Choose Your Fundraising Target

Personalise Your AppealSend personal emails with the link to your fundraising page, share on social media and start fundraising.

Target: $100

Ask everyone to

aim for $100.

The cost of a bowl

of shark fin soup.

Target: $300

Shark fins can sell for

$300 USD per pound.

Encourage everyone

to set their target at

$300.

$2,500Choose Your Team NameRegister a team, join a team or sign up as an individual.

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FINish

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Good Luck The Race Is On• Swimmers sign liability release forms• Nominate someone to time laps &

log distances• Say THANKYOU to

swimmers and donors for supporting your favourite cause.

• Set your date and choose your target distance.• 100 laps of your pool or 2km ocean swim? Swim to

the pontoon or around your island. • Seek permission. Mark the course. Book the pool.

Invite Everyone • Invite your dive students, dive club,

families, instructors, the local school , hotels and community! Ask them to join your team online or sponsor the event.

• Promote your event with the online Finathon Action Kit for posters, banners, social media messages, certificates.

Plan Your Swim

Seek prizes

from local

businesses for a

Finathon Raffle

on the day.

Donate to

yourself first!

Then ask close friends

and family.

Tell them why you’re

passionate about

sharks.

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WHY SHARKS?

Shark fishing is largely unregulated around the world. Overfishing, bycatch and finning – slicing off sharks fins and

throwing away the body at sea - kill thousands of sharks every day. Project AWARE helped close loopholes in the EU finning ban and secure international trade protections for 8 of the world’s most vulnerable sharks and rays.

But, to ensure the survival of sharks, stricter, enforceable controls are

needed for more species at national, regional and

global levels.

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Thanks To Your Support

Fight Insist Negotiate

on full protections for critically endangered sharks

strong policies to ensure a brighter future for all sharks

to stop finning

Thank You

Project AWARE will:

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