Fundraising activity ideas

Kirsty1979

I'm helping to organise some fundraising activities at work as part of our social committee, raising money for a local hospice. We are looking to contact companies/shops that might be willing to donate prizes for raffles etc. Does anyone know which national companies are likely to help from past experience or have any tips for what our approach should be?

Also, we often do things in the office or after work to raise an extra bit of money - cake sales, quiz nights. Would love any ideas for activities that are relatively cheap and easy to organize!

You lot are always so helpful when I have an arthur question so I thought I'd throw this one out to you too!

katknapp

we raised money where i work by getting everyone to bring in foriegn currency left over from hols,also bring a book to work day and set up a book stall and sell them off,bad hair day!shave your hair day lol

and a fashion show,model unwanted clothes and have an auction after,you could contact your local paper and radio and also maybe some local clothes shops might donate?

stickywicket

I used to be Charities Officer for both a local charity and its regional counterpart. If it’s raffle prizes you’re looking for I used to find helpful people for donating free tickets were:

Sports clubs especially rugby league (if you’re in the north)
Local theatres and museums
Local attractions (virtually anything you’d pay for eg a steam railway, shire horse farm, aquarium, theme parks)
Local breweries

Local supermarkets will usually donate chocs and/or alcohol.
Local wine merchants will usually give a bottle or two.

Best thing about tickets (as opposed to more solid prizes) is they’re cheaply posted if the winner isn’t around at the draw.

National companies and charities tend to have gi-normous, complicated forms, take about 6 months to give a reply and will probably only give to charities direct rather than to groups raising funds for charities.

Good luck with it!

coco67

pop into your local barclays bank and have a word with the manager, sometimes they will match the amount you raise from there comunity fund, we have done this before and they doubled the thousand pound we had raised. also ask around the pubs, some to a quiz nite every week for a month and donate the money to a charity.

a beetle drive is cheep and easy to do, sell tea and coffee etc and raffle tickets at the same time, approach a fruit shop and see if they would donate a basket of fruit as a prize.

nail bars have been known to give vouchers for a ladys nails to be done.

depending on where you are some zoo's theme parks donate tickets,

murder mystery nights are good also.

even bingo can raise funds.

good luck with what you are doing,

valval

spot the ball ticket where they choose a team pay a pound and winner gets £10 and rest to charity ask local football (pub) teams where they on sale near you race night always goo for laugh or milionares night people love chance to win something val

coco67

at work you could organise a bring your loose change of coppers day and line them up along the hallway or cover a wall and see how much you get,

a swear box,

a magic square sheet, everyone buys a square or two off a grid and one square wins a percentage of the prize money.

Kirsty1979

Thanks everyone - some great ideas! Can always count on you lot!