Fundraising Ideas?

Ok, as part of the sixth form president team, we need to keep coming up with fresh new, exciting fundraising ideas , anyone got any?

Or If they're just things your sixth form does for fun or activities you have going on all year round, I'd love to know as we're running out of idea's fast! :eek:

Reply 1

Jamin

Well, we were trying to raise money for our yearbook, and we did an ipod nano raffle and in a School of around 1000 people, we raised £700 in profit, that was selling £1 for a ticket and £3 for 5...

Something to consider?

Reply 2

Keiraaa

hey i like it.... thanks

anyone else any ideas?

Reply 3

Renal

RAG raids, although you might be a bit young for that sort of thing.

Reply 4

Ashes_to_Ashes

Keiraaa

My experience is the annual charity week. Every year, year 12 plan a whole week of events in the school within about a month and on average usually raise £10,000!

I'm on the commitee this year and we're just finishing all the events now. Here is a list of what we did/organised:

*A year 7,8 and 9 disco in the school hall, which rasied nearly £800.
*A non-uniform day where people pay £1 to come in non-uniform (£1 x 1500 students = £1500! :eek:

*A variety show of dancing, singing, ect (like Bitain's got talent but with school students) and charge people to watch. It was on two nights and raised £1500.
*Bake sales.
*Raffles.
*Auctions.
*Teacher sumo wrestling (hilarious to watch), raises lots of money.
*selling bits and bobs on stalls.
*A fashion show.
*car washing.
*bucket collections.
*House party (like Noel Edmonds lol) on a lunchtime.
*hire a party boy =P
*hire a sixth-former.
*bag-packing (can get a lot of money).

...it goes on and on. :smile:

exhausting but worth it, I think we'll get to £10,000-£12,000 from it, for the Josie Grove Lueikeimia (spelt wrong, o well :s-smilie:

) Trust.
But the events are quite fun to organise.

Hope that helped, if you want any tips or advice just ask me.
For example, we bought glow sticks at Poundland (30 for a pound) which worked out at about 3p, then sold them for 50p, which made profit as they all sold out (150-200 of them :smile:

)

Hope your fundraising goes well whatever you decide to do :biggrin:

Reply 5

Keiraaa

thanks, we already have teacher idol, bit like X factor :P and we have purchase a person which is where you hire a sixth former and parties etc. we can't do the selling of glow sticks 'cos the young enterprise beat us to it for our halloween party on wednesday. but it's a great idea :biggrin:

cheers.

Reply 6

mollymustard

Although its not very exciting, our Student Union do cake sales for our 6th Form every friday morning and usually make about £50-£80 profit in 3 hours.

We also go to every single parents evening and sell raffle tickets with a cheap prize like £20 WHSmith Vouchers (they dont care what they win they just want to support us).
We make about £160 on that per evening.

Reply 7

anna_lou

face painting! its really easy to do

Reply 8

Jamin

The glowsticks idea for discos i had last week. Did you sell the big thick ones or was it just the thinner ones coz its the thin ones the pound shop in town has 20 for £1

Reply 9

Keiraaa

Jamin

The glowsticks idea for discos i had last week. Did you sell the big thick ones or was it just the thinner ones coz its the thin ones the pound shop in town has 20 for £1

I'm not sure... It's the enterprise team sorting it out.. I think they're buying them off the internet. *shrugs* lol

Reply 10

Jamin

It's cool, i've bought some online and we are selling them on thursday night :biggrin:

Here's hoping they go down well !

Reply 11

Keiraaa

Jamin

It's cool, i've bought some online and we are selling them on thursday night :biggrin:

Here's hoping they go down well !

they're not doing it now cos three of them have gone on holiday pppfft!

Reply 12

jcroft

We managed to get a sumo wrestling arena for the teachers to ultimately battle it out, it worked a charm. While that was going on lunchtime, we sold sweets by the shed full. Seriously, buy a massive tub of sweets from Makro, (5kg tub for £15) then put about 3 or 4 sweets in a bag and sell them for 20p! We made quite alot by doing this, by the end of the week we had made £700 on sweets alone.

Good stuff. :rolleyes:

Reply 13

Sadafbkhan1

So basically i am currently in year 13 at school and hold the position of Fundraising and events ambassador. I have to come up with ideas preferable fun creative and different to raise money to fund our end of year celebrations i am wondering what ideas you may have?

Reply 14

Emma:-)

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How about bag packing in your local supermarket

Reply 15

Parente

Just bag packed in Tesco today and we each got the equivalent of £13 an hour, for 5 hours. We're also doing a teacher car wash where we re washing teachers cars in our free periods in one day

Reply 16

yllekriot

Hello, can I ask how you got the iPod? I am trying to think of ideas to raise money for a degree show at uni but would like to keep the costs down as much as possible.
Thanks

Reply 17

chocolatesauce

mufti day, selling krispy kremes...

Reply 18

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