Fun HAD Fundraising Ideas!
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Penny Raffle
Buy a book of 500 raffle tickets, tear them up and ask
everyone you know to pick a ticket, when they have picked a ticket they
owe you that amount. When all tickets have been picked you will have
made £1,252 – you could ask local businesses to donate prizes that you
could give away as a bonus on certain ticket numbers!
Pyramid lunch
You invite 5 people to lunch, those people
invite 5 people to another lunch, then they invite 4 people, who invite 3,
who invite 2, who invite 1 person. If each person pays £5 to attend
you can raise £8,125!
Restaurant
See if your local restaurant will let you have a table for
half price. Organise a set menu, invite 20 friends and charge them
full price. You could always ask if the waiters will donate their tips
to your fund one night.
Pyramid Coffee Morning
The same as above but on a smaller scale.
Makeover night
Do you know any beauticians or nail
technicians? Invite friends round and for £10 they could have a
manicure or pedicure and a night of fun with the girls.
Hold a Theme Party
Decide on a fun theme & charge an entrance
fee.
Hold a themed dress-down day at work
Charge £2 to dress
down, alternatively £5 to dress up.
Ask your local school to have a dress-down day
Get letters sent home to let parents know
of the event and see if they would be interested in raising money for us.
Check to see if your company has a £1 for £1
match funding scheme
Lots of companies will donate money to charity for their employees.
Car Wash
Get your local Fire Station or Car
Dealership involved! They do all the work, you refill the
buckets! Advertise it in your local paper – this is good advertising
for a local car business!
Girls/boys night in
Provide wine/beer at your house, play some
music have a chat watch Sloppy DVD/Football tell your firends to bring
donations.
Is it your 21st?
Or a special anniversary – in your speech
mention you are doing this amazing fundraising and send round a
collection. You could hold a raffle or ask for donations instead of
presents.
Time to get your own back
Ask a teacher/boss to go in the stocks and
have wet sponges thrown at them, you should find plenty of people to make
a donation for this pleasure!
Cake Sale
Ask your friends/family to bake
something for you to sell. Head down to church/village/school fetes
and sell your delicious goodies.
Car Boot Sale
One man’s trash is another man’s
treasure! Have a fun day bartering with the local public over your
old junk.
Jumble Sale
Take advantage of the summer fetes!
Book Sale
Who reads all their books more than
once? Empty your shelves and head down to the car boot or fete and
sell every book for £1.
Host a Bingo night
Speak to the local community centre and
ask for the hire of the hall for free for charity and get/friends family
down for a night of “full house”. Charge entry and have prizes
donated.
Promise Auction
Ask your friends and relatives to agree on
promises they will auction for money, such as carrying out a weeks worth
of ironing, a spring clean, car cleaning and walking the dog. Or, if
they have a skill like hairdressing or work in a restaurant they could
give vouchers.
Slave auction
Instead of auctioning off promises, auction off people.
Smarty idea
Give everyone you know a tube of Smarties and
ask them to give the tube back to you filled with 20p’s, each Smartie tube
contains around £12. Don’t forget the Gift Aid request!
Smarty idea 2!
Give a tube to each class at your local school and see
which class can fill the most tubes in a month.
Bag Packing at your local supermarket
Get your friends and family together to
make it more effective.
Quiz night
Organise a quiz at your local pub, social club, club house or
community centre.
Games night
Hold an outdoor picnic with a good old fashioned game of Rounder’s. Charge
for tickets.
Sports Sweep Stakes
Take all the teams that are entering and ask
people to bet on who will win. – the prize could be something that you
have acquired.
Any Sweep Stake
Make it X Factor or another event.
Balloon Race
Ask your local primary school or Guides, Brownies, Rainbows,
Cubs or Scouts to host a balloon race. Each child pays £1 for the
balloon and they are all let off together with the child’s name on a card
on the string. When someone finds the balloon they call up and give
a prize for the balloon that has been reported to have travelled the
furthest.
Raffles
Hold a raffle at your workplace, social club, golf club,
tennis club, church fete, summer fair or anywhere else you can think of!
Tombola's
Get everyone you know to donate a prize and head down to any event.
Remember it doesn’t have to be a summer fete!
Ask BIG
Ask at least one person for a £1,000 donation – The worst
they can say is no, or maybe they’ll donate £500 instead, or even £250
better yet they could say yes!
Hold a dinner party
Invite your friends, family, work
colleagues associates. Talk to them about what you are doing and ask
for their help. A nice night for you and a good way to raise money.
Delegate
Give 10 of your friends 10 donation forms each and ask them
to help raise money for you.
Network with your Neighbours.
Write to all of your neighbours in your
street (or in your block of flats.) Attach a letter stating what
you’re fundraising for and ask them to make a donation – you never know
you might get a neighbour that wants to join you!
Open Garden
Ask
a local land mark to open their garden for one day and give the entrance
fee and proceeds to you, or alternatively if you have a nice garden ask
people to come and have tea and cakes in your garden.
Talent Show
Get your children/friends to take part in a ‘Children’s Stars
in their Eyes’ and charge entrance.
Fashion Show
Speak to local stores/boutiques about setting up a Charity
Fashion Show.
Sponsorship
Do something you are afraid of and get friends to sponsor
you. You could shave your head, jump out of a plane, bungee jump.
Local press
When you are holding an event, make sure you get in the local
paper so more people come along!
Office fundraising
Speak with everyone in your office and get them
to challenge each other to raise the highest amount. Get your
employer to give the winner a day off or a prize!
Corporate Prizes
Do you work in a large Company? Ask
the department that deals with the free tickets your company has donated
to them to auction them for charity.
Collect in a shopping centre
You have to apply for a licence form the council
but you can raise a lot of money if a few of you collect outside those
busy shops on a Saturday.
Pub Crawl
Get your mates to dress up and hit the town with collection
buckets. Phone the Pub Landlords beforehand to get permission to
collect on their property and you never know they might throw in a free
drink.
Murder Mystery Evening
Have a dinner party with a twist, charge
your friends and get them to dress up as characters.
Start up your own extra change box
Keep a jar near your door and every day put
all your extra coins in it. It adds up, or put it on your desk at
work.
Movie ticket/Theatre ticket
Ask them to donate several tickets. Sell
them or put them as a raffle prize at an event.
Strip and swap
Get all you friends to bring all their old
designer clothes round, and all have a swap. Pin on a realistic
price to each item and that money goes direct to the charity.
Creative friends
Ask a local artist or creative friend if
they would donate art/jewellery/cards that you could auction, sell or
raffle.
Hobbies
Do you go to Weight Watchers, Yoga, Salsa Classes? Give a
presentation and get the group behind you with your fundraising.
Sponsored
gym
Ask
members of your local gym to sponsor you to walk a certain distance on the
treadmill – you can fundraise
and get fit at the same time!
Sponsored triathlon/marathon
Ask at your gym if
anyone is doing one and see if they will adopt HAD.
Organise a tennis tournament
Ask your tennis clubs if you could hold a
competition, arrange matches, add up scores, winners etc, charge people
for entering and the winner gets a prize.
Hair
Salon
Ask you hairdresser if
they will have a HAD Weekend where all the stylists dress up and £2 off
every customer fee goes to your cause.
Mowathon
Need something for your kids to do in the school
holidays? Get them mowing, cleaning cars, digging etc. for
donations.
Su-doku
Competition
£2 entrance,
photocopy a particularly difficult one and see who finishes first.
Babysit
For donations.
Karaoke Night
Who cares if you can’t carry a tune? Spend a night at a
Karaoke Bar and sing to your heart’s delight. Have the announcer tell
the crowd that you are singing for donations.
Holiday pay
Ask
your boss if they will swap one of your holiday days for a days pay?
Poker Night
Get your friends round for a poker night.
Let everyone know that 10% of the winnings are payable to HAD.
Skittles Night
Talk to the local bowling alley or
skittles pub and see if they can do you a deal!
Music night
If you know any musicians ask them to perform a benefit
concert. Get involved with the local school or scouts/guides club and
see if they can show off their musical abilities by holding an X Factor
competition or busking for parents.
Do you know any teachers?
Get them to get their class
involved. Children are very good at creative fundraising.
Game shows
Set up your own ‘Deal or no Deal’ or ‘Blind Date’ with your
friends or kids at school.
Guinness Book of Records
Get sponsorship for a world record.
Longest chain of paperclips, or line of coins or something wacky and try
to beat it.
Pram Push
Speak to local play group and see if they would
organise a pram push for you.
Treasure Hunt
Set one up in your town, people pay money to enter a
team. Advertise it in the local press/radio and the money raised goes
to HAD.
Bicycle ride
Plan a route, ask friends to join you tell them to get
sponsored. Why not finish the route at the pub, a good day for all.
Comedy Night
Get a group of friends and organise for each friend to do a
10 minute section and tell them to bring their own jokes.
Dance-a-thon
Hold a non stop dance-a-thon and get
sponsorship.
Diet
Get
people to sponsor a diet you go on!
Football Day/ Rugby
Day
Hold a football/rugby
tournament for children and charge everyone admission or to enter their
child.
Karting Challenge
See if you can get a group together and
persuade the karting club to give you a discount then charge the full
amount.
Penalty Kick Competition
Organise a penalty kick competition, winner gets
a prize, charge for entering.
Donation Forms
Ask your local shop/hairdresser/dry
cleaner/dentist/gym to keep some of our donation forms.
Collection tins
Ask your local
bar/hairdresser/takeaway etc to have a collection tin on their front desk.
Raffle prizes
Ask your
hairdresser/dry-cleaner/mechanic/local boutique to donate a prize that you
could raffle. You have given
them your service for years, ask for something back.
Flower
arrangements
Contact the local
Flower Arranging Club and see if they will each donate a beautiful
arrangement that you could raffle off at your party or event.
Charity
Groups
Talk to your local
charity groups such as The Rotary, Women’s Institute and ask if they can
help you to fundraise for us – they have lots of experience and like to
support people in the community.
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Five aside Football
Set up a competition
yourself. Alternatively ask the league at your local sports club to fundraise
for HAD.
Sponsored Walk
Contact your local
Ramblers club and ask them to walk for HAD.
Gym Challenge
Organise a 24 hour
sponsored workout.
Community Fun Day
Organise a fun day for
all in and with your local community.
Leg Wax
Arrange a sponsored leg wax at your local
beauty salon.
Craft
Fair
Organise
a arts and crafts fair and charge for stands and admission.
Band
night
Enlist local bands to play for free and have a music night at a local pub or community hall.
BBQ
Have a bbq with your friends
and family charge admission and a donation towards food and drinks.
Seasonal Parties
Organise a seasonal
party around spring, summer, autumn or winter. Make it fancy dress and
charge admission.
Halloween Party
Invite friends and
family to a party in fancy dress. Sell jacket potatoes with imaginative
fillings!
Work Christmas lunch
Make
personalised crackers for your work colleagues. Ask them to make a
donation for them.
Charity Car Park
Contact your local
carp park administrator and sign up to cover the carpark for a
day/weekend.
E-bay Sale
Open
a charity account and sell your unwanted bric-a-brac.
Coffee Morning
Hold a coffee morning
with your friends and family.
Toddlers
playtime
Hold a play time session for your toddlers and parents group.
Collect donations for entry and refreshments.
We would love to get to 101
ideas so give us a call if you can add to the list!