Fundraising Ideas

• Justgiving site - every team found this useful, and some teams added photos, links to blogs, logos of their sponsors, team photos, biograhies of each team member.
• Raffle
• Quiz nights
• Supermarket collections
• Supermarket bag packing
• Ice cream sales
• Competitions at lunchtime
• Collection boxes in the canteen, reception.
• Collecting at exhibitions
• Matched funding
• Support from their companies
• Writing to suppliers for prizes that can be used in raffles, quizes etc
• Race night
• Jumble sale
• Guess the baby competition
• Cake bakes
• Auction of promises

A straight forward guide of how past fundraisers made lots of these ideas work is featured on Tried and tested ideas 

• Auction a company car – a senior executive’s car for the weekend, for example!
• Auction your skills – find out what people are good at then auction a number of hours of their time to the highest bidder (this could be DIY, gardening or filing and office organising).
• Change places for the day – bid to be who you always wanted to be or bid for a slave to do all your dirty work.
• Donkey derby sweepstake – pick the ticket for a big race such as the Grand National/ FA Cup Final winner out of a hat.
• Dress up, dress down or dress to a theme – people taking part donate £1, those who don’t pay £2 (or more for failing to get involved!).
• Guess the baby competition – ask everyone to bring in a photo (or 80’s bad hair photo) and pay to guess who the person really is. The person with the most matches wins.
• Extreme logo – hold a competition to photograph your company logo in the most bizarre places.
• Organise a raffle – ask colleagues, your company or suppliers to donate prices then sell as many tickets as possible (don’t forget to check the raffle rules with us).
• Matching funds - Many of the larger companies now operate a matched funding scheme, whereby they will match all the funds raised by one of their employees up to a specified limit. So if you raise £250, you may find that your company will match that money with another £250. Worth asking about!!
• Meal deals – if you have a company canteen ask them to donate £1 for every meal sold on a set day.
• Pack your lunch – save money by bringing in your lunch instead of buying it for a week and donate the difference to your fundraising pot. Designate a week to do this and get the whole office involved – the money soon adds up!
• Pay to park – does your office have a free car park for employees? If so, nominate one day as NDCS day and ask people to pay to park – or get people to pay for you to park their cars for them.
• Penalties – Introduce fines for swearing, being late for work or meetings or missing deadlines.
• Swear box - Pressure will have almost anyone doing it! Put a suitable receptacle: wastepaper bin, big mug, plant pot in the middle of the office and make anyone who utters a profanity, a word stronger than "sugar", pay a £1 fine. You could always try and drive them to it, a paperclip in the photocopier ought to do it. . .
• Small change box - Loose change can be so irritating, so in the office and in the home help your friends and family by supplying a large collection tin to ease their burden. You'll be surprised how much loose change you can collect in a short space of time. Did you know that in Great Britain there are:
  
  £68 million 1p pieces in circulation.
  £82 million in 2p pieces in circulation.
  £140 million in 5p pieces in circulation.
  
  So, get out there and get it!
• Style challenge - Oh dear, those unbelievably awful ties! We all know someone who owns, or even wears, these disasters. Pay £1 to enter your most style-challenged ties. Of course, the difficulty may be in finding a truly independent judge to pick the winner.
• Wash cars – most people will be more than happy to have this job done for them. Ask your boss to volunteer and you’ll be amazed with the positive response from your colleagues!
  
  

• A birthday card/xmas card amnesty – ask your friends and family to send you a donation instead of a card (or even instead of a present if you can bear it!).
• Casino night – play cards, roulette etc with the profits donated to your fundraising pot.
• Cake sale at work…no-one will be able to resist those afternoon treats.
• Cycle or walk to work for two months and put the money you save in transport costs towards your sponsorship total. Try and get other people to do the same, persuading them that it’s good for them! It’ll be good training for you too.
• Company miles – get everyone to do a sponsored mile of something – run, cycle, hop, swim – there are endless things and the more fun, the more you’ll get in sponsorship.
• Easter celebration – hold a bonnet competition, an egg and spoon race or an egg treasure hunt.
• ‘Give it Up’ week – get sponsored to give up chocolate, cigarette’s, alcohol or coffee – whatever your weakness is!
• Hold lessons – if a friend is a teacher of yoga, or aerobics, ask them to donate a session or two for free, sell tickets and donate the funds raised to your fundraising pot.
• Hold a BBQ, sports day or party – sell tickets, hold a raffle, play rounders, throw wet sponges at the boss/local bobby or anything you can think of that your friends and colleagues would like to do.
• International evening – sell tickets, inspired dress, music, food and wine from different countries – great fun and interesting too!
• Jail and bail – jail your boss or most annoying colleague in the broom cupboard or in reception and don’t release them until you have collected a certain amount of money.
• Murder mystery evening/ pub quiz – we have the tools and expertise, just pick a date and get selling tickets. Contact the corporate fundraising team for more information.
• Organise a snooker or pool competition – contact your local pool hall and ask if they can donate the use of a couple of tables for the competition. Charge people to enter, place bets on who will win and then donate the profits to your fundraising pot.
• Organise a Premiership or Wimbledon sweepstake. You could take bets on individual matches, players or the final outcome.
• Pasta or Italian evening - Organise a pasta/Italian evening or other themed night. Ask everyone to bring a bottle of wine and charge them an entrance price for the food. Sing an Italian song, wear an Italian costume - give an Italian prize for the best or the worst! Entertainment and good company provided free of charge!
• Race night – go to the dogs, charge for tickets and donate a set amount of the winnings.
• Beard shave - Well endowed with facial hair? Forgotten what a razor is for? Shed some light on your chin and shave your beard. No excuse for moustaches either. If you're really brave you could sacrifice the hair on your head, you'll be amazed at what people will sponsor you to do sometimes!
• Contacts your friends/family - Remind all your friends, family, colleagues and associates that your sponsorship deadline is approaching. Email or write to everyone in your address book and let them know you are a little short of your target and that their money will really make a difference!
• Collections - Station yourself with a collection tin at the entrance/exit at your local supermarket car park. Parking is often free on weekends so you can encourage people to donate what they would have paid in parking fees (two of our challenge eventers once raised £2,000 in 9 hours doing this!).
• Talent show – always a winner, organise your own version of stars in your eyes. Ask a local venue to donate the a space for free and get your friends and family to dress up as members of a tribute band or favourite artist!
  

• Five a side football tournament – charge participating teams and compete against teams within your company or from local businesses with a big final at the end.
• Go-karting – contact your local karting track and charge drivers extra on top of the normal fee to take part.
• Krypton factor assault course – pay tot ale part and have opportunities for advancement if contestants find hidden donation clues around the course.
• Marathons – find out when the next marathon or half marathon is taking place and get people to sponsor you.
• Organise a tug of war – teams pay to enter and can be sponsored.
• Organise your own It’s A Knock Out Competition – charge people to enter and add a tombola etc to raise further funds.
• Sports Day – golf, rounders, cricket, tennis the choice is endless, ask individuals to pay to enter and add in a fundraising activity such as guess the number of balls hit at your local driving range in an hour

A to E

• A Apple bobbing; Antique Fairs; Art Shows; Assault course; Auction of
  promises; Aerobic sessions/stamina competition; Animals; charge others to feed, clean, walk pets.
• B Beard shave; Baby Sitting; Balloon Race; Beetle Drive; Bread & Cheese Lunch; Barn Dance; Bedroom Tidying; Balloon Races; Bed Push; Bring & Buy Sale; Barbecue, charge by sausage or plate; Bake sale; Bathing in . . cold beans, gunge or something equally gooey and unpleasant.
• C Coffee Morning; Car Wash; Computer Games Marathon; Celebrity, does someone famous live near you? Would they help? Create a Cookbook, sell the secrets of your culinary success; Concert; Cabaret; Charity Cricket Match; Craft Fair; Car Boot Sale; Comedy Evening; Collections.
• D Darts Tournament; Disco; Double or Dare; Dress as Donkeys, run races or give rides; Dinner parties, invite your friends and charge for the privilege; Dress up or Dress down, but only for a price.
• E Egg and Spoon Race; Empties, take them to the recycling bin for a fee - keep an eye out for people having parties; Exhibitions; Easter Egg Sale.

F to J

• F Fashion show; Face Painting; Fairs; Fetes; Fishing Tournament; Flower Sale; Football Match, can you get a local league player or team involved too?; Fortune Telling; Flower Show; Foreign Stamps; Families and Friends are always there to support you, get each to pledge to raise £20 for you.
• G Guess the Weight competition; Garden Open Day, have you got a garden people would pay to see or can you talk someone into showing their beauty spot for a fee?; Gala; Go Karting; Garage Sale, but not the car!; Gift Aid, £250 will increase in value with a tax exemption form, ask the NDCS for details; Golf Day; Games Evening; Gym Circuits.
• H Head shaving; Hallowe'en Party; Hat Sales; Homemade Goods; Hockey match; Hobbies, will yours raise money?
• I Indoor sports contests; It's a Knockout; Ice Skating; Ironing, sell your
  services; Indulge in your favourite foods, how many tins of beans can you eat?; International Evenings.
• J Juggling; Jail break; Jelly eating competition; Jumble sale; Jazz evening; Jobs about the house/ Jam Making; Jazz Evening.

K to Q

• K Karaoke; Keep Fit-a-thon; Kilts, how good are your knees?; Knobbly Knees competition, for those that shouldn't be seen in a kilt; Kidnap the
  Boss/Teacher.
• L Lambada marathon; Lawn mowing; Line Dancing; Lunches; Loud Tie Day.
• M Magic show; Mini Marathon; Massage, if you know what you are doing there will be no shortage of those willing to pay for the pleasure; Make Up/Make Over demonstrations; Medieval Banquets; Murder Mystery Evening; Magic Show.
• N No Smoking Day, or longer if you can bear it; Non Uniform Day; Nearly New Sale; Nature Trail.
• O Outdoor sports day; Onion Peeling competition; Outing or day trip; Outdoor Sports Competition.
• P Plant Sale; Pool Tournament; Pram Race; Paper Chase; Pasta/Pizza party; Put up a Poster; Pantomime; Panel Games; Paper Chase; Party.
• Q Quack Quack, go Quackers, sell plastic ducks and race them on the river; Quadruple race, four legged races are harder than three, and if it's still too easy combine it with fancy dress; Quaff, for speed, style and quantity; Quizzes.

R to Z

• R Rugby Match; Raffle, lost property, unwanted presents, all those books you have read; Relay Race; Rally; Record Sales; Rich Man/Poor Man Supper.
• S Scrabble Marathon, exercise the little grey cells; Sweeties, guess how many, win the lot!; Swear Box; Sponsored Silence; Scavenger Hunt; Swimming gala; Sack Race; Side shows; Strong Man Competition.
• T Teddy Bear's Picnic, fun for all the family; Tug-o-War; Theme Day/Evening/Event; Treasure Hunt; Three legged race; Tombola; Toy Sale; Talent Contest; Ten Pin Bowling.
• U Unwanted Gift Sale; Unicycle Ride; Underwear, are you Superman or
  Superwoman, wear it on the outside if you dare!; University Challenge.
• V Video Marathon; Vices, give yours up for a price!
• W Wellie Throwing Competition; Whist Drive; Wheelbarrow Race; Wine Tasting; Window Cleaning.
• X Xylophone concert, Xtra terrestrial convention, who's your favourite ET?; Xtra-ordinary feats with . . . (your imagination is the only limit!).
• Y Yodelling Competition; Yoga Marathon; Your Own Ideas!
• Z Zany Clothes Day; Zoo, be your favourite animal for a day or have a Zoo Party.