A to Z of fundraising ideas
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
- Bits and Pieces (music quiz)
- BMX bike display, or competition
- Book/comic sale
- Boot 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 schools grounds)
- Card delivery service, pupils pay for delivery within the school
- Carol singing see fundraising guidelines
- Charity shop open one lunchtime a week selling donated items
- Christmas cards making and selling them, or selling bought cards
- Class collections
- Coffee mornings
- Collections of money at speech day
- Collections of other things (eg waste paper, bottle tops, coins, stamps)
- Competitions
- Computer games knockout, best if played in pairs
- Concerts/recitals/plays/shows
- Cook books writing a class or school cookbook that can then be sold
- Cookery contest (eg Ready Steady Cook could be the teachers!)
D
- Dance marathon
- Dinner dance/ball
- Discos/raves
- Donkey Derby
- Dragon boat race
- Dry Cornflakes/Cream Cracker-eating contest
E
- Easter egg hunt
- Easter party
- 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, Wheel of Fortune, Blockbusters, Blind Date etc)
- Gigs (local bands play in school)
- Gladiators/Gladifakers
- Golf match
- Gymkhana
H
- Hair beading/plaiting
- Halloween party
- 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
- Lottery can be Chocco Lotto where numbers are put onto sweet packets
M
- Man O Man (or Teacher O Teacher)
- 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
- Murder Mystery evening
N
- New Year's Eve dance/party
- Night-time hide and seek, using torches
- No work day, students choose what they want to do
O
- Old-time music hall
- One hundred club raising £100 every week, half term or term, or a fundraising club with 100 members in it
P
- Pancake day race/competition
- Panel games
- Parties school birthday/anniversary, etc
- Penalty shoot-out competition
- Penny mile, where coins are lined up and measured can be done in teams
- Pet show
- Photographic competitions
- Pram push
Q
- Quizzes
R
- Races
- Raffles (see guidelines)
- Rapping contest, show or sponsored event
S
- Saints’ days parties/theme day
- Santa’s grotto
- School fair
- Silly games afternoons: egg & spoon, silly races, wet sponge throwing, etc
- Skateboard display
- Slide evening
- Soap episodes show or theme day
- Sponsored events (eg bike ride, dog walk, knit, kite-flying, headshave, haircut, hula-hooping, no smoking, rapping, run, shoe-clean, silence, sing, sports match, swim, talk, three-legged walks, walk, watch TV/don’t watch TV, window clean, etc etc etc)
- Sports contests, teachers vs students (no PE teachers allowed!)
- Stalls at fairs etc (eg cakes, plants, books)
- Strawberry and cream tea party
- Student-teacher swap day
- Swap-shop
T
- Tea party
- Teddy bears’ picnic
- Theme days/evenings (eg countries - French, Spanish; soap operas, past-eras etc)
- Throwing wet sponges at a person/teacher in stocks, great at a summer fair!
- Tombola
- Top of the Pops show, teachers or students miming and dancing to chart music
- Treasure hunt
- Tuck shop
U
- Uniform days (for schools without a uniform and/or for teachers)
- University challenge
V
- Variety show
W
- Wacky Races
- Whist drive
- White Elephant stall
- Who’s that baby? (students and staff bring in photos of themselves as babies)
X
- Xmas fair/panto/party
Y
- Yacht race, etc
- Young Enterprise Scheme run by students, donate part of profits (eg making and selling cards)
Z
- Zany parties
- Zumbathon
