Quick and Easy Fundraising
Sometimes the simple sometimes work the best. Here are our top six simple fundraising ideas.
1. Playtime fundraiser
Challenge yourself and your students – how much money could you raise in one playtime? You could sell cakes, hold a raffle or charge to play different games.
2. Non-Uniform Day
Ask your students for a donation to come into school without their uniform; it's a fast, easy and effortless way to raise money. Students at John Ball Primary School in London paid £1 to come in their own clothes and raised £520.86.
3. Playground collection
Shake those buckets and rattle those tins. As parents and children are arriving or leaving school why not stand at the school gate and collect their loose change?
4. Give it up and Put it Right
Get sponsored to give up one of your favourite things for a day (or week). The whole school to give up sweets for a day and donate the money they would have spent to UNICEF. Or perhaps you could hold a sponsored silence.
5. Sell sell sell
Remember, your trash is someone else’s treasure. You could hold a school art auction, jumble sale, make jewellery, bake cakes, or run a school quiz. Aith Junior School in the Shetland Isles held a Bric a Brac sale and raised £300.17. Manor Prep school in Oxford raised £679 with their delicious desserts.
6. Show off
Show off and put on a performance. Charge parents and staff for tickets to the event, then show off again about how much money your raised. There are plenty of ways to show off your school’s talents. You could charge parents and staff to attend your Christmas play, or summer annual sports day.
You could hold your own X-Factor or karaoke competition. Put on a school talent contest or even hold a special assembly about children’s rights and charge for entry. In February 2011, Braintcroft Primary School in London had a special assembly on Children’s Rights given by the children in Year 4, they even wrote their own song about children’s rights!
