Fundraising Ideas A-Z
Auction of skills and promises
Organise an auction and offer your skills or services to the highest bidder
BBQ
Hold a bbq in your garden. Ask guests to pay an entrance fee, then provide them with food and drink for free.
Buggy Walk
Cake sale
Organise a cake sale in your office, school, church or neighbourhood.
DVD night
Invite everybody to your house and charge an entrance fee. Watch a DVD and stop half way through to sell refreshments.
Easter egg hunt
Organise an Easter egg hunt in your local park and charge people to take part.
eBay sale
Fashion show
Clothes shops may supply samples to promote their lines. Friends can act as models charge entry, raffle or auction donated prizes and sell refreshments.
Firewalk over hot coals
Give up something you like
Get sponsored to give something up for a month
Head shave/Hair dye
Get sponsored to shave your head or to dye your hair in a funny colour
Indian Night
Organise an India themed night with Indian food, music and dancing!
Jumble sale
Get everyone to rummage though their houses for those hidden treasurers they would be happy to part with.
Karaoke night
Host a karaoke night in your local pub/hall/club and charge people to take part
Longest line of coins
Get sponsored per metre around your school, office or club. Or start a line of coins in your local park or college grounds.
Murder Mystery
Organise a Murder Mystery night and charge people to take part
Non-uniform day
Participants pay a donation to dress up or down for a day in work or school
Open House
Host an Open House or Open Garden event and charge an entry fee. You can sell refreshment and organise a treasure hunt for children to take part in.
Phone off
Ask people to sponsor you to have your phone off for a day, a week, or longer.
Quiz night
Organise a quiz night in your local pub/hall or club.
Raffle
Including a raffle as part of your event is always a great way to raise some extra cash.
Seventies night
Get all your friends together and dress, eat and dance in true 70s fashion
Skydive – go on, be brave!
Teacher quiz
Find out interesting, strange and funny things about your teachers and put them together in a quiz. Charge students to take part.
Unwanted presents sale
This one works especially well after Christmas!
Variety Show
Organise a Variety Show in your local town hall and get your friends to showcase their talents!
Who’s the baby
Ask your friends, colleagues or member of your club to bring in a photo of themselves
and charge people to guess whose who.
Xmas carol singing
Organise a group of you to go carol singing at your local shopping centre, town square or church
Yellow Duck race
Organise a Yellow Duck race on your local river/stream.
Zzzz Sleep over
Have a Sleep Over in your school/office or club and let participants get sponsored to take part.