A-Z OF FUNDRAISING IDEAS SHINE A LIGHT SUPPORT SERVICE Supporting Families with Children with Cancer in Coventry and Warwickshire
Shine a Light Support Service A B C A Z of Fundraising Ideas Ideas to get you, your family, friends and colleagues thinking! Everyone can get involved! o Abseil - a group of people could abseil down a local building o Aerobics: sponsored marathon/competition o Antiques fair o Assault course o Arts or crafts stall/exhibition/fair/day o Auctions and Silent Auctions (I have a slip you could use for this) o Bad hair/tie day o Baked beans bath o Bake off o Balloon race o Barbecue o Barn Dance o Bingo (or chocolate Bingo) o Bits and Pieces (music quiz) o Bonfire o Book/comic sale o Bouncy castle it could be a sponsored event, eg number of bounces per minute! o Bring and buy sale o Britain s got talent show o Cabarets/talent shows o Car boot sale o Car washing event during other events??? o Carol singing o CELEBRITY try to get one o Challenge! Try something new! o Cheese and Wine event o Chinese new year event o Christmas cards making and selling them, or selling bought cards o Christmas Jumper Day o Christmas Present Wrapping Service o Christmas Carolling o Cinema screen a film! o Coffee mornings see our special coffee morning fundraiser pack! o Collections of money at events o Collections of other things (eg waste paper, bottle tops, coins, stamps) o Competitions o Computer games knockout, best if played in pairs o Concerts/recitals/plays/shows 2
D E F G H o Cook books writing a class or school or office cookbook that can then be sold o Cookery contest (eg Ready Steady Cook) o Craft Show o Crufts show o Dance marathon o Drawing competition o Dinner dance/ball o Discos/raves o Donkey Derby o Dragon boat race o Dress Down Day o Dry Cornflakes/Cream Cracker-eating contest o Easter egg hunt o Easter party o Egg rolling competition o Enterprise Scheme run by students, donate part of profits (eg making and selling cards) o Face painting o Fairs, fetes, bazaars, etc o Fancy dress party/day o Fashion show (with clothes made by school pupils or donated by local shops) o Film show/premiere o Fireworks party o Five Kilometre race Make yours stand out with a costume requirement or unusual location o Flower/fruit/vegetable show/sale/display/stall o Foam party fill paddling or swimming pool with foam and then party! o Football tournament o Game shows (eg Stars In Their Eyes, Wheel of Fortune, Blockbusters, Blind Date etc) o Gift Tags and Cards make from recycled cards and sell o Gigs (local bands play in school) o Giving Tree (Easter or Christmas) o Gladiators/Gladifakers o Golf match o Go-karting o Guess the name of the bear o Guess the weight of the (Christmas) Cake o Gurning Competition o Gymkhana o Gymnastics display o Hair beading/plaiting o Half Marathon o Haggis evening (burns night) o Halloween party or disco o Hot-dog/burger stand o How many sweets in the jar 3
I J K L M N O P o It s a Knockout competition o Ironing do your friends and family s ironing o Ice cream sundae making day o Jail or Bail o Judo competition or display o Jumble sale o Karaoke competition/display o Keep Fit event o Kite flying o Knit-a-thon o Lawn Mow o Line dancing o Litter Pick o Log throwing o Longest chain of paper-clips, line of coins, etc o Lottery can be Chocco Lotto where numbers are put onto sweet packets o Mad Hatter s Tea Party o Marathon events - table tennis, aerobics, line dancing, badminton, etc (in shift teams) o Midsummer masked ball o Midnight film shows/parties/etc o Mince Pie Bake Off (Christmas) o Mud Run o Mufti/non-uniform/denim/tracksuit/etc day o Murder Mystery evening/event o Nail painting and art o Nature Walk o Networking Event o New Year's Eve dance/party (ask at the Swan they are doing something) o Non Uniform Day/Dress Down Day o Old-time music hall o Open Gardens day or weekend o Open Mic evening o Pancake day race/competition o Parties school birthday/anniversary, etc o Payroll Giving pay out of your salary each month contact us for details o Penalty shoot-out competition get a celebrity goalie o Penny mile, where coins are lined up and measured can be done in teams o Pet show o Photographic competitions o Picnic o Pie Throwing contest 4
Q R S T o Pram push o Quizzes themed, pub etc o Races o Random acts of kindness day o Reading Competition o Running o Raffles o Rapping contest, show or sponsored event o Saints days parties/theme day o Santa s grotto (doing that) o Santa Dash o School fairs o Scoff-a-hotdog competition (eg who can eat two in the fastest time possible!) o SELL THINGS people make or donate or buy things and sell them... o Silly games afternoons: egg & spoon, silly races, wet sponge throwing, etc o Skateboard display o Skills Donation o Skip-a-thon o Sky Dive o Slide evening o Special Lunch event o Sumo Wrestling o Soap episodes show or theme day o Sponsored events (eg bike ride, dance-a-thon, dog walk, knit, kite-flying, headshave, haircut, hula-hooping, no smoking, rapping, run, salsa-thon, shoe-clean, skip-a-thon, silence, sing, sports match, swim, talk, three-legged walks, walk, watch TV/don t watch TV, window clean, zumbathon, etc etc etc) o Sports contests o Stalls at fairs etc (eg cakes, plants, books) ask at local schools o Steps Challenge o Strawberry and cream tea party in Summer??? o Swap-shop o Switch off Social Media/Gadgets o Tea party or o Tattoos o Tea Dance o Teddy bears picnic (you ve already thought of that) o Theme days/evenings (eg countries - French, Spanish; soap operas, past-eras etc) o Throwing wet sponges at a person in stocks, great at a summer fair! o Tombola o Top of the Pops show, miming and dancing to chart music o Treasure hunt o Trivia night Host a trivia night at a local pub and have participants pay to play. For extra credit, the pub can donate a portion of proceeds of drinks and food sold. o Tug of War 5
U V W X Y Z o University challenge o Variety show o Valentine s event/speed dating o Wacky Races o Wax Off o Whist drive o White Elephant stall o Wild Swim o Wine Tasting or Cheese and Wine o World Record break one! o X-Files day (Use your imagination the ideas are out there!) o Xmas fair/party o Xmas Pantomime o Yodelling competition o Yo-yo day o Yogathon o Zany parties o Zumba Fundraiser o Zip Wire adventure 6