A-Z of Fundraising Ideas for ThePromise
Here are a few ideas to get you going! They won’t suit everyone, but whether you’re a company, a school, a group of friends, or on your own, they should help to stimulate further ideas! Good Luck!
Auction of Promises – auction people’s promises eg to visit an elderly person in need, babysit, or do washing up for a week etc.
Baby Sitting
Bad Hair Days
Balloon Race
Bingo
Bric-aBrac/Bring and Buy – clear out those cupboards!
Cake Sales
Car Boot Sales
Car Wash
Charge for sewing name badges on school uniform
Climb Mount Elbrus (Highest mountain in Russia – Caucasus – 18,510ft) – using step machine, running machine in gym
Christmas Party
Coffee mornings
Dinner parties – charge your guests for their meal!
Fashion Show
Foreign coin collection
Gala dinners
Guess the baby (from photo!) competitions – at work, school, church
Golf days
Jewellery/make up sales
Kids concerts – parents pay to enter
Mufti days/Dress Down Days
Quiz nights
Scavenger hunts – like a treasure hunt, but you collect items on your way
School Disco – buy a ticket, have a raffle, prize for head boy and head girl!
Silent Auction – place bids in sealed envelopes
Sponsored anything! – beard/head shave, silence, spelling competition, sports
competition, walks, bike rides etc.
Sponsored dog walk
Spring Cleaning
Swap Evening with raffle – bring 5 nearly new items, go home with 5 bargains!
Sweepstakes – on anything!
Swear boxes
Swim/Row Lake Baikal (largest Russian lake in Siberia – 80kms wide) – swim the equivalent in the local pool or with rowing machine
Talent competition
ThePromise Path of Pennies – around the playground, office building, church.
Trading Places – with your boss, teacher etc.
Treasure Hunts
Unwanted Xmas present sale
Wine Tastings