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Stuck for ideas for raising money ? Check out our list of over 101 fundraising ideas !
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If you're in a hurry to grab some top ideas for fundraisers - here's our popular and free mini-ebook "101 Fundraising Ideas - Tips on How to Raise Money for New Fundraisers ". This comprehensive list of ideas is the perfect resource for your church, charity, PTA, middle or high schools, christian kids groups, non-profit group, scout troop, youth ministry or sports club. There is a section on fundraising for specific occasions, such as the Christmas holiday period You'll find ideas on how to run successful fund-raising events and activities for each group online elsewhere on this website, but you can download this in PDF format, print out and read it at your leisure.
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100 Club Annual Dinner Dance / Party Annual Event dance/fireworks/New Year party, etc Annual Subscription/Membership Art Sale / Auction Auction of Promises Auctions of Promises Bad Hair Day Balloon Races Balls & Dances mid-summer, Valentines Day, New Year or Christmas Barn Dances

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Beetle Drive
Bingo Bucket or Street Collections outside stores and in shopping malls Burns Night Celebrations Cake Bake Car Boot sales Car Wash Carol Singing Celebrity Speaker Event (eg.figures) Challenge Events Charity Stall for Sales of Second Hand items Cheese & Wine Evenings Chess Competition Christmas Card & calendar sales Christmas Fair Clay Pigeon Shoot Clothes Swap - ask people to donate those unwanted items with their price tags Coffee Morning Concerts Cookery Book Cookery Demo or Themed Food Evening Country Walk or Ramble Craft Fair Crazy Golf Match Disco

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Doughnuts - another idea for students and young people. Selling fresh doughnuts can have a high profit margin and be a quick and effective fundraiser when you have a captive audience.

Donations Duck Races Easter Egg Hunt Face Painting Family Portrait / Photo Fancy dress party Fashion Shows Fetes

Fifty Fifty Raffle - you sell tickets for $1 each, the winner from the drawing wins half the money raised, your organisation keeps the other half. Depending on how many tickets you sell, you could raise $20 or $200.

Film Premiere sponsor or show a new film, though you may have to consider asking for "donations" rather than charge a fee Fireworks Display Flower Arranging Demonstration Football Match / Tournament Fun Runs Garden Parties Generous Giving from Wealth Individuals Gladiators / Its a Knockout Golf Events Grants from Fundraising Bodies & Trusts Helping Hand service offer to cut peoples grass, walk their dogs or look after their home whilst theyre on holiday, asking for a donation in return Horse Racing evening International Evenings themed evenings, Italian, Indian, Australian, etc Just Giving use Facebook and MySpace to let your friends and family know all about it Karaoke Evening Litter Picking - Sponsored

Love-grams for Valentines day (for students) Take orders in advance, on the day deliver a card & candy or card & single rose to each person's dorm room. People may order these for that special someone

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in their life, but also sometimes for friends. You can make a reasonable amount of $$ , just make sure that you buy the cards and candy in bulk and charge a fair price, for example, between $3-5 would seem affordable for most students.
Make Overs Mile of Pennies / Coins Mufti, Dress Down or Non-Uniform Day Murder Mystery evening Music Quiz Mystery Tour / Trip Open Garden Events Paintballing Pancake Day party Parachute Jump Plant Sale Playstation party get your mates to bring their PS2 & PS3s round and charge everyone to play the different games Poetry Competition Pub Tournaments e.g. darts, Skittles, darts, pool, cards Quit It give up chocolate / smoking / etc for a week / month Quiz Night Raffles - the first year just go with what prizes you can. As you repeat though,

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you'll find businesses are more willing to donate to something with a successful history, so you'll probably find that you're "on a roll" and things willl just get bigger and better every year.

Rambles

Readathon - ideal for primary schools, students get sponsored for every book they read or just a flat donation for pupils that just need to be encouraged to read

Run a Marathon Santa Letters writing Santas Grotto Scavenger Hunt Selling Christmas Gifts from Catalogues Seventies Night / Disco

Singing Telegrams on Mother's Day. Ideal for students, call your mother and sing the song of your choosing for a small charge.

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Smarties tubes collect 1 coins for your cause Sponsored Abseiling Sponsored Anything - Hot Tub a Thon, you name it, having fun is the name of the Sponsored Head/Hair shave Sponsored Jail break Sponsored Silence Spring clean your wardrobes and sell on eBay Spring Flowers & Hanging Baskets Demonstration & Plant Sale Strawberries & Cream Tea party at Wimbledon time. Also how about hand dipped

chocolate strawberries as a student graduation or end of exams event

Ten Pin Bowling

Tennis tournament Treasure Hunts Trips & Outings Unwanted Gift Sale perfect after Christmas Used Stamps Wine Tastings Salsa Night Welly Throwing Competition

Talent Show

Please feel free to email us with any suggestions that are not on the above list! Download and print the fundraising ideas list now.

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Helpful Tips for New Fundraisers The first tip that I have for any new fundraiser is to find out what you want to get out the whole process. There are a number of reasons why a person gets into fundraising. Sure, it makes a person feel good because they're contributing to a good cause, but there are many other reasons. You may be raising money for your favorite charity, your church, your school, a business or any number of other things. Another tip is that you should have clear goals. You should have a goal for how much money you want to raise with your fundraiser. You should also have a clear time frame for achieving this monetary goal. Some fundraises only last a day, but there are plenty others that are ongoing, over a period of time. Another tip is to give yourself plenty of preparation time. There is nothing worse than being unprepared. You have to have everything organized and know what everyone's tasks are going to be. You need to make sure that everyone knows what they are going to be doing and what is going to be expected of them. You don't want to try and wing it at the last moment and have everyone running around, not knowing what they are supposed to be doing. Another tip is to make sure that you know what all of your expenses are going to be. There is nothing worse than going into a fundraiser and not knowing what your expenses are going to be. You have to run it with a business mentality, so create an income and expenditure budget and try and stick to it! It isn't how much money you make. It is how much money you make after expenses are taken out of the total. You can say, well we raised $10,000, but we spent $9,000 to do it. You only ended up raising $1,000. It sounds simple, but there are so many people that make this mistake and that is because they don't figure in the costs ahead of time or they didn't take the time to get a good estimate of what the costs were going to be. Lets say that you're going to raise money by mowing lawns. If you're going to do it yourself, you don't have to worry about labor, but there are plenty of other costs. You obviously are going to need a lawn mower and have a form of transporting it. You're also going to have to pay for gas and maybe an oil change or other forms of maintenance. If you're going to make and sell some crafts, in order to, raise money. You're going to have to think about all of the material costs that are going to go into it. Unless you're planning to sell them locally, you're going to also have to find a way to ship the items and think about the material costs that go into shipping. That would be the boxes, labels etc. You may also have to look into advertising costs. You may need to advertise online, in magazines or in newspapers. You have to be thinking about all of these things. Another tip is to simply have fun! There is nothing worse than treating a fundraiser like a job. You won't have fun and that might effect the people around you and they might not have fun. Just remember that you're doing a great thing here. Most people wouldn't do what you're doing, they just aren't motivated enough. You always have to keep the reward in mind. Anything that you can do to spice things up and make things more interesting and fun, go ahead and do it, within reason, of course. Another tip is to motivate yourself and the people who are helping you in the fundraiser. One way to do this is to provide a little competition. A little competition never hurt anybody and it will help ensure a more successful and more interesting fundraiser. If you're selling a product, give the person that sells the most a special reward. That will help motivate people to work harder. They not only have the motivation of raising more money for the fundraiser, in order to, help the cause, they will have motivation for beating everyone else and getting the

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special reward. With this many ideas, fundraising is easy. Just don't forget to have fun! Got a unique idea that you'd like us to add to the list - please contact us with details of your suggestion.

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