A to Z of fundraising ideas – add your own
A ** Abseil ** Aerobics ** Antiques fair **Arts and crafts stall/exhibition/fair ** Auctions 8**
B ** Bad hair/tie day ** Baked beans bath ** Barbecue ** Barn Dance ** Bits and Pieces (music quiz) ** BMX bike display/competition **Book/comic sale ** Boot sale ** Bring and buy sale ** Balloon Race ** Bag Packing** Busking** Bucket Collection ** Bungee Jump ** Bingo ** (grow a) Beard ** Bazaar **
C ** Cabaret/talent show ** Car boot sale ** Car washing ** Cycle ride/race ** Coffee morning **Collection in pubs etc ** Competition ** Concert/recital/play/show ** Cook books ** Cookery contest (eg. Ready Steady Cook) ** Cookie Challenge ** Catering/drinks(at an event-with supplies donated) ** Celebrity event ** Cake sale** Calendar ** Craft Fair/workshop ** Charity shop ** Church (religious) collection ** Computer game challenge ** Collection box**Cat show**
D ** Dance marathon ** Dinner dance/ball ** Disco/rave ** Donkey Derby** Dry Cornflakes/Cream Cracker-eating contest ** Dress down day ** Dog Walk**Dog show** Door-to-door collection ** Duck Race**
E ** Easter egg hunt ** Easter bonnet competition ** Easter party ** Egg rolling competition **
F ** Face painting ** Festival ** Fair/fete/bazaar etc ** Fancy dress party/day ** Fashion show (clothes from shops) ** Film show/premiere ** Fireworks party ** Flower/fruit/vegetable show **Football tournament ** Fun run ** Flash mob ** Fairground stalls/rides ** Food challenge **
G ** Game show (eg Stars In Their Eyes, Wheel of Fortune, Blockbusters, Blind Date etc) ** Gigs (local bands play in school) ** Gladiators/Gladifakers ** Golf match ** Gymkhana ** Garage sale ** Gift wrapping ** Games Tournament **
H ** Hair beading/plaiting ** Halloween party ** Hot-dog/burger stand ** Horse riding ** Hand made goods sale **
I **It’s a Knockout competition **
J ** Judo competition/display ** Jumble sale ** Jewellery sale **
K ** Karaoke competition/display ** Kite flying **
L ** Line dancing ** Chocco Lotto (no’s on sweet packets) ** Ladies Luncheon ** Last night of Proms ** Lottery ** Limbo challenge**
M ** Marathon events (e.g.table tennis, aerobics, line dancing, badminton, etc (in shift teams) ** Midsummer masked ball ** Midnight film show/party/etc ** Murder Mystery evening ** Magic Night** Makeover ** Messy (Geeky) Hair Day **
N ** New Year's Eve dance/party ** Night walk ** Night-time hide and seek, using torches ** Non uniform day
A to Z of Fundraising ideas continued
O ** Old-time music hall ** One hundred club (raising £100 every week, or a fundraising club with 100 members in it) ** Open Gardens events ** Odd jobs ** Odd shoe day **
P ** Plot the Pat (with a cow!) ** Pancake day race/competition ** Panel games party ** Penalty shoot-out competition ** Pet show ** Photographic competition ** Pram push ** Pub Quiz ** Pamper day**Promise auction **
Q ** Quiz **
R ** Race ** Raffle ** Rapping contest (show/sponsored event) ** Race Night ** Reading challenge **
S ** Saints’ days party/theme day ** Silly games afternoon (egg & spoon, silly races, wet sponge, throwing, etc.) ** Skateboard display ** Slide evening ** Soap episodes show/theme day ** Sponsored event (eg. bike ride, dog walk, gardening, 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.) ** Sports contest, ** Stalls at fair (eg. cakes, plants, books etc.) ** Strawberry and cream tea party ** Swap day (Boss-Employee) ** Swap-shop ** Strawberries & Cream Tea ** Sky dive ** Swap shop ** Street party ** Speed dating
T ** Tea party ** Teddy bears’ picnic ** Theme day/evening (eg countries - French, Spanish; soap operas, past-eras etc) ** Tombola ** Treasure hunt ** Talent show ** Triathlon ** Table top sale ** Tug-of-War **
U ** University challenge **
V ** Variety show ** Video Game Challenge **
W ** Wacky Races ** Whist drive ** White Elephant stall ** Who’s that baby? (staff bring in photos of themselves as babies) ** Wine Tasting ** Waxing ** Wing walking ** Wet Sponges ** Work shops ** Wristbands ** Wheelbarrow races ** Wheelchair basketball **
X ** X-Files day (Use your imagination – the ideas are out there!) ** Xmas fair/panto/party **
Y ** Yacht race ** Yellow Day (eat yellow, dress yellow etc) **
Z ** Zany parties ** Zip Wire challenge ** Zumba
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