With 24 days to go, here are 24 top fundraising ideas to help top up your total:
Birthday coming up?
Ask for
donations towards your sponsorship instead of presents or a card. If you have
an online fundraising page you can post it on your Facebook page, or email it
out to all of your family and friends.
Dress down days
These
work well in schools or in the work place, charge each person £1/£2 to come in
for the day in no uniform or casual dress.
Skills auction
This
works really well in the workplace, get your colleagues to donate their
'skills' from dressmaking to tea making and everything in between! Get your
boss to offer to make the tea or wash someone's car and watch the bidding shoot
up!
Book and CD swap
Set up
a stall in the office and ask everyone to bring in their old books and CD's.
They can donate a few pounds to swap them for something different. You never
know what they might find.
Charity car wash
A
fundraising car wash is simple to organise, fun to do, and is a great way to
raise funds. You could offer to wash colleagues cars in your lunch hour. People
might donate more to see you complete the task in fancy dress.
Cake sale
Bake
some cakes and set up a cake and bake sale at your home/work place or school.
You could also serve hot and cold drinks to increase revenue. Remember to cook
a wide selection of different cakes to cater for all tastes.
Office lottery
Run
this fundraiser as weekly event and watch the kitty build up. You need 20
people to enter, with each person paying £1 for a lottery number (1-20). If
their number gets picked out the hat they win half the money and the charity
gets the other half. Not a big money maker but if you do this every week the
money soon adds up. You could also increase the number of entrants if you work
in as large office.
Sports day
Organise
a special sports day for the local community, you can lay on a host of
different events from egg and spoon to relay. This is a great way to fundraise
especially if you can do a range of different events that cater for all ages.
You can charge people an entrance fee to take part in the different events with
the winners getting a medal or prize. You could even set up a refreshments
stall to bring in more money.
Coffee morning
Why not
throw on the kettle and bake a cake, all in the name of charity? With little
outlay, this is a guaranteed success, simply ask your friends, family and work
colleagues for a donation in return for coffee and slice of homemade cake.
Garage sale
Ask
friends and family to bring in their unwanted items and sell it, it could make
someone else's treasure.
Ten pin bowling
Easy to
organise, if you’ve got a local bowling hall. Charge for entry and award a
small prize to the winning team. Or run a marathon sponsored bowling
competition.
Tombola
Run
a tombola stand at a local event. Collect prizes from suppliers, colleagues and friends
before the day. Give everyone plenty of notice to donate prizes.
Bingo
keep it simple, invite a group of family and friends for a fun game of bingo, you can do as many games as you like and charge people per bingo card per game and offer small prizes to those who are first to get a full house.
Shoe shinning
Offer
shoes shinning at lunchtime at your work place.
Movie night
Show videos at your house and charge family and
friends admission, you could make your own concessions and sell those too.
Zumba night
Ask
your local gym if they would be willing to put on a special spin/zumba/yoga or
any other class that happens in your area, and add donate proceeds to your
fund. Alternatively they could add £1 to normal class price which is donated to
you.
Discount
Talk to
the people who work at some of the places you visit regularly. Maybe your
favourite restaurant or bar would be willing to give you a discount for a party
or a donation per person or per drink sold.
Give it up
Give up
something until the marathon. Whether it's coffee, chocolate or texting, give
it up and add the money you would have spent towards your fundraising goal.
Sponsorship forms
Make
sure that you carry your sponsorship forms with you at all times during the
lead up to the marathon. As it gets closer people will want to know how you are
getting on and if you can get them to sponsor you there and then it makes it
easier for both of you.
Fine jar
Put a
fine jar in your office/home/school and write a list of rules and charges, when
someone breaks a rule they have to pay the according charge. (for example,
being late, forgetting to say please or thank you, swearing or mentioning a
nominated forbidden word/phrase, using your left hand to drink etc.)
Smartie tubes
Wirte
to/visit a local store and ask if they would kindly donate a number of
tubes of Smarties to support your challenge and help you fundraise for a lifesaving cause. If you hand these out to
colleagues/staff/friends and family and ask them to fill them with10p pieces
before returning them to you.
Write about it
Create
a blog, detailing your final weeks of preparation.Talk about your
nerves/excitement, final training activities, what you are looking forward to
and what you are might be worried about. At the bottom of each blog post attach a link to your online fundraising
page and then post your blog pieces on Facebook and Twitter. This will make people
feel more involved with your journey, engage them with your challenge and
perhaps make them more likely to donate.I hope at least one of these top ideas has inspired you to organise your own exciting fundraising activity. For further ideas, news and some positive fundraising stories please visit our website.
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