Put Some Fun in your School Fundraiser
Here are some ideas for you to get started. We would love you to help.
Bake Sale
The annual bake sale is a tried-and-true fundraising idea for schools and clubs. Parents, staff, and pupils can donate home-baking items, which are then sold to pupils, friends, and family.
Bag Pack
This is a great fundraising idea for older children or parents. For insurance purposes, many supermarkets will only allow children aged 14 years or older to participate. Weekends fill up quickly, so you will need to apply early to get a suitable day at your local store.
Be sure to sign up early in the school year for a bag pack, as slots fill up quickly.
Table Quiz
Charge per team and have a good mix of questions. You could have a round about your city or county, one on music, one on your school or club, general knowledge, dingbats, sports, flags, missing words, nature and a photo round.
Have spot prizes for the best answers, best team name and an overall prize for 1st, 2nd and 3rd teams.
Raffle
A raffle is often held in conjunction with a bake sale or other fundraising event. Ask for donations from parents and local businesses and price your tickets according to the range of prizes.
Treasure Hunt
A small or larger-scale treasure hunt is a fun event for families and a great fundraising idea. You can hide items to be found at your school or venue or create clues from items in your locality, e.g., poems or inscriptions on plaques, shop or street names, etc. Each clue leads you to the next location, and you either take the first letter of each place to solve a riddle or pick up treasure at the final location.
It does take a bit of organisation, but you may also discover things about your locality that you didn’t know before.
Sponsored Event
From a dance-a-thon to a skip-a-thon, get everybody active and have fun while fundraising. Each child tries to get sponsorship to take part.
School Bring & Buy Sale
Another popular fundraising idea is for families to donate their unwanted items and sell them on the day. This is often combined with a bake sale and other fun fundraising ideas such as nail painting, fortune telling, hooking a duck, etc.
Calendars/Wall Planners
We all need calendars and wall planners to track family activities. Schools can team up with companies that create these to raise funds.
Christmas Cards
Mayo Roscommon Hospice sells Christmas Cards annually and always needs help. If you can help us, please let us know.
Fashion Show
They take a lot of organisation, but if you have a good team in place, can be a great fundraiser and feel-good event. On the night, there is also an opportunity to have a raffle.
Strictly Come Dancing Event
This has become a popular fundraiser for schools and clubs. Parents are sponsored to participate in a dance routine that is then judged, with the best dancers going through to the grand final. During the event, you could have a bake sale, raffle, game of heads or tails or a silent auction.
Non Uniform Day
Each student brings a set amount on the non-uniform day, so it is a great way to fundraise if you have a particular target in mind.
Sponsored Silence
The bliss of silence! The annual sponsored silence is usually held as a charity fundraiser but could be done as a school/club fundraiser, too.
Recycling
Everything from old mobile phones to batteries can be used to raise money for schools and clubs and help charities. We also have Hospice Shops, and all donations are welcome.
School Cookbook
Students and staff submit their all-time family favourite recipes along with a photo, which is turned into a cookbook.
Sponsored Run/Swim /Cycle
We all want to get fit. Have a fun fundraiser by getting the students, teachers/leaders, or families to get sponsorship to participate in a run, swim, cycle or other endurance event.
Film in the School Hall
You could show some old classics that many children may not have seen already. And a tuck shop is obligatory!
Put on a movie, charge an entry fee and have fun!
Games Day or Evening
Organise a fun games day or evening for students /members. It could be a board games day, lego building day, jigsaw day or you could hire giant games like Jenga or Connect 4. Everyone pays a small fee to take part.
Read-a-thon
It’s educational and fun. Children are sponsored to read as many books as possible in a set amount of time.
Concert
If your school or club have talented musicians or a fantastic choir, run a concert for friends and family to attend and charge a small fee.
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