A-Z of fundraising ideas
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A
- Abseil - a group of people could abseil down a local building
- Aerobics: sponsored marathon/competition
- Antiques fair
- Arts or crafts stall/exhibition/fair
- Auctions
B
- Bad hair/tie day
- Baked beans bath
- Barbecue
- Barn Dance
- Book/comic sale
- Bouncy castle – it could be a sponsored event, eg number of bounces per minute!
- Bring and buy sale
C
- Cabarets/talent shows
- Car boot sale
- Car washing (in Church/School grounds)
- Carol singing – see fundraising guidelines
- Card making – making and selling them, or selling bought cards
- Class collections
- Coffee mornings
- Collections of other things (eg waste paper, bottle tops, coins, stamps)
- Competitions
- Computer games knockout, best if played in pairs
- Concerts/recitals/plays/shows
- Cookery contest
D
- Dance marathon
- Dinner dance/ball
- Discos/raves
- Dry Cornflakes/Cream Cracker-eating contest
E
- Easter egg hunt
- Easter party (Make Easter bonnets)
- Egg rolling competition
F
- Face painting
- Fairs, fetes, bazaars, etc
- Fancy dress party/day
- Fashion show (with clothes made by pupils or donated by local shops)
- Film show/premiere
- Fireworks party (adults to organise)
- Flower/fruit/vegetable show/sale/display/stall
- Foam party – fill paddling or swimming pool with foam and then party!
- Football tournament
G
- Game shows (eg Stars In Their Eyes, Name that Tune etc)
- Gigs (local bands play in Church/school)
- Golf match
H
- Hair beading/plaiting
- Hot-dog/burger stand
I
- ‘It’s a Knockout’ competition
J
- Judo competition or display (adults to organise)
- Jumble sale
K
- Karaoke competition/display (adults to organise)
- Kite flying
L
- Line dancing
- Longest chain of paper-clips, line of coins, etc
M
- Marathon events - table tennis, aerobics, line dancing, badminton, etc (in shift teams)
- Midsummer masked ball
- Midnight film shows/parties/etc
- Mufti/non-uniform/denim/tracksuit/etc day
N
- New Year's Eve dance/party
O
- Old fashioned dance night
P
- Pancake day race/competition
- Parties – school birthday/anniversary, etc
- Penny mile, where coins are lined up and measured – can be done in teams
- Photographic competitions
- Pram push
- Pool competitions
Q
R
S
- Silly games afternoons: egg & spoon, silly races, wet sponge throwing, etc
- Slide evening
- Sponsored events (eg bike ride, dog walk, knit, kite-flying, headshave, haircut, hula-hooping, run, shoe-clean, silence, sing, sports match, swim, talk, three-legged walks, walk, window clean, etc etc etc)
- Sports contests, Adults vs children
- Stalls at fairs etc (e.g. cakes, plants, books)
- Strawberry and cream tea party
- Swap-shop
T
- Tea party
- Theme days/evenings
- Throwing wet sponges at a person/teacher in stocks, great at a summer fair!
- Top of the Pops show, teachers or students miming and dancing to chart music
- Treasure hunt
U
V
W
- Wacky Races
- White Elephant stall
- Who’s that baby? (students and staff bring in photos of themselves as babies)
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Z