A
Ask – you’ll never know if you don’t!
Abseil – scale a local building
Aluminium Collection – collect empty cans and sell them to an Alupro aluminium can recycling depot. Contact info@alupro.org.uk for your nearest recycling site
Art – ask friends who are artists or photographers to donate their work, or approach local artists. Stage an exhibition and charge an entrance fee and commission
Auction – auction off original items, taking a percentage of sales
B
Be enthusiastic!
Bad tie day – charge your colleagues a pound to come in wearing their loudest tie. Award the winner
Baked bean bath – get sponsored to spend a day in a bath of beans!
Ball throwing – how far can you throw a ball?
Barbecue – charge for the burgers and sell drinks
Battle of the bands – Contest for unsigned bands. Charge entry and invite record producers
Beat the goalie – penalty shoot-out
Bingo – hold a one-off evening or regular morning sessions
Book sale – sell old books, collected from everyone you know. Second hand bookshops may buy left over stock
Bring and Buy Sale
Bungee jump
C
Cake stall – hold a cake stand at fairs. Check health and safety regulations
Cake baking contest or baking and selling cakes to friends/colleagues
Car Boot Sale – cash in your old belongings
Car wash – wash cars at shopping centres or office car parks
Christmas cards – enclose a flyer about your event with a reply slip for pledges
Coffee morning
Community Sunday brunch/picnic – in the village or school hall
Copper coins – collect 1p and 2p pieces from all of your friends
D
Donations – get companies to donate prizes and provide venues
Dance-off
Darts evening
Diet – get friends and colleagues to join you, £1 for pound!
Disco
DJ – ask any DJs you know to do the music for an event
Dog walking – charge your neighbours and friends for the service
Drawing competition
Dress down day at work
Drink – get sponsored to give up alcohol
E
Email all your friends and get them involved
Expert Talks – ask people to donate their time and expertise
F
Face painting
Family fun/sports day
Fashion show
Fair or fete
Fancy dress party – pay and win prizes
Film evening – recreate an evening of vintage cinema by showing classic films and musicals and charge an entrance fee
Football/Netball – sweepstake for tournaments with friends or at work
G
Gift Aid it!
Games – Twister, Jenga, Team Trivial Pursuit. Pay to enter with donated prizes
Garden party – sell tickets or invite guest to make a donation
Gardening – offer your gardening services to friends and family
Go-karting – organise a work trip
Golf tournament
Greeting cards – make and sell cards for every occasion
Guess the number – e.g. guess how many sweets in the jar or how many pies you can eat!
H
Hair – cut people’s hair and get someone to shave off a treasured beard!
Halloween party
Horse racing – sweepstake at work
I
Involve everyone you know!
International themed evening – a buffet dinner, with each friend bringing a dish from a different culture
Ironing – offer your ironing services
J
Join in with an existing event in your community (e.g. a fun fair, school fete) and run a stall or activity
Jewellery making – buy your own beads and sell at a craft market or fete
Juggling – how long can you juggle or how many balls can you keep in the air?
Jumble sale
K
Karaoke night
Knitting – sell scarves, hats, ponchos
L
Left-handed day – try doing everything with your left hand for the day
Lent – get sponsored to give up chocolate!
Look-a-like contest
M
Make the most of your talents – make necklaces, sculptures or cook food to sell
Magic shows
Marathon – get sponsored to run 26.2 miles!
Massage – charge friends and family
Murder Mystery night – dress the part to make it more fun!
Music concert
N
News Year’s Eve party
O
Odd jobs – help out friends for cash
Outward bound
P
Press – tell your local paper what you are doing
Paintballing
Party! – 60s, 70s, 80s. Dress up!
Play
Postage stamps – collect and sell stamps to dealers
Press-ups challenge
Private tuition – teach French or Flamenco, sell your skills
Pub crawl
Persuade your boss to hold a fundraising day for team building purposes
Q
Quiz night – get your local pub to help
R
Raffles
Read-a-thon
S
Silence – get sponsored to keep quiet for a day!
Smoking – get sponsored to give up and get healthy!
Sponsored walk/bike ride
Sponsored skipping/hoola-hooping
Sponsored clean-up – the playground or the local park
Stars in their eyes – get your friends to dress up like someone famous
Static bike ride in the gym
Stay-awake-a-thon!
Swim-a-thon
T
Table tennis challenge
Talent contest – charge admission
Taxi your friends around at a fee!
Tea mornings – put the kettle on and get baking. Entertain guests with raffles and auctions
Ten pin bowling – bowling alleys sometimes have special rates
Toy sale
Treasure hunt – entry fee and donated prizes
U
Unwanted gifts – get friends to donate items and have a boot sale
W
Wacky ideas are the best
Wine & Cheese party – use homemade wine
Wine tasting – hold tasting sessions for wine companies
Work – Ask your workplace to match what you fundraise
