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Phone: 01635 41464 Fax: 01635 580549 E-mail: info@westberkshiremencap.org Registered Charity Number: 1076658 Limited by Guarantee No.3790942
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Fundraising Ideas |
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A Abseil - a group of people could abseil down a local building Aerobics: sponsored marathon/competition Arts or crafts stall/exhibition/fair Auctions (why not auction your teachers as slaves for the day!) B Back to Front Day - why not wear your shirt and ties back to front for the day! Bad hair/tie day Big Hair Day Baked beans bath Barbecue Bits and Pieces (music quiz) BMX bike display, or competition Book/comic sale Bring and buy sale C Cabarets/talent shows Cake stall Car boot sale Cards (Christmas, Valentines, Mothers day) make, sell and even deliver them Carol singing / service Car washing (why not dress up while doing it) Charity shop - open one lunchtime a week selling donated items Class collections Coffee mornings Collections of money at speech day Collections of other things (eg waste paper, bottle tops, coins, stamps) Competitions Computer games knockout, best if played in pairs Concerts/recitals/plays/shows Cook books - writing a class or school cookbook that can then be sold D Dancethon Dennis the Menace Fun Day! Dennis is Mencap's mascot everyone could dress up in Black and Red Dinner dance/ball Discos/raves Dot to Dot Do it for someone else day Doritos and Dip party Decorate and Sell Dry Cornflakes/Cream Cracker-eating contest E Easter egg decorating Easter egg hunt Easter party Egg rolling competition F Face painting Fairs, fetes, bazaars, etc Fancy dress party/day Fashion show (with clothes made by pupils or donated by local shops) Film show/premiere (contact your local cinema) Fireworks party (adults to organise) Flower/fruit/vegetable show/sale/display/stall Foam party - fill paddling or swimming pool with foam and then party! Football tournament (it can be team sport really!) G Game shows (eg Stars In Their Eyes, Wheel of Fortune, Blockbusters, Blind Date, X Factor etc) Game Day (bring in your favourite board game to play with your friends for a pound) Gigs (local bands play in school) Gladiators/Gladifakers Golf match H Hair beading/plaiting Halloween party Hot-dog/burger stand I It's a Knockout competition Ice lolly / pop making and selling in the summer J Judo competition or display (adults to organise) Jumble sale K Karaoke competition/display (adults to organise) Kite flying L Line dancing Longest chain of paper-clips, line of coins, etc Lottery - can be Chocco Lotto where numbers are put onto sweet packets M Man O Man (or Teacher O Teacher) Marathon events - table tennis, aerobics, line dancing, badminton, etc (in shift teams) Midsummer masked ball Midnight film shows/parties/etc Mufti/non-uniform/denim/tracksuit/etc day Murder Mystery evening N New Year's Eve dance/party Night-time hide and seek, using torches No work day, students choose what they want to do O Old-time music hall One hundred club - raising £100 every week, half term or term, or a fundraising club with 100 members in it Outdoor movie showing P Pancake day race/competition Panel games Parties - school birthday/anniversary, etc Penalty shoot-out competition Penny mile, where coins are lined up and measured - can be done in teams Pet show Photographic competitions Pram push Q Quizzes R Races Raffles (see guidelines) Rapping contest, show or sponsored event S Saints' days parties/theme day Santa's grotto School fair Scoff-a-hotdog competition (eg ‘who can eat two in the fastest time possible'!) Shakespeare marathon Silly games afternoons: egg & spoon, silly races, wet sponge throwing, etc Skateboard display Slide evening St Patrick's Day Party (eat lots of stew and sing Irish songs!) Soap episodes show or theme day Sponsored events (eg bike ride, dog walk, knit, kite-flying, headshave, haircut, hula-hopping, no smoking, rapping, run, shoe-clean, silence, sing, sports match, swim, talk, three-legged walks, walk, watch TV/don't watch TV, window clean, etc etc etc) Sports contests, teachers vs students (no PE teachers allowed!) Stalls at fairs etc (eg cakes, plants, books) Strawberry and cream tea party Student-teacher swap day Swap-shop T Tea party Teddy bears' picnic Theme days/evenings (eg countries - French, Spanish; soap operas, past-eras etc) Throwing wet sponges at a person/teacher in stocks, great at a summer fair! Tombola Top of the Pops show, teachers or students miming and dancing to chart music Treasure hunt Tuck shop, where the profits go to Mencap - getting supplies donated? U Uniform days (for schools without a uniform and/or for teachers) University challenge V Variety show Virgin V Party W Wacky Races (make your own go-carts!) White Elephant stall Who's that baby? (students and staff bring in photos of themselves as babies) X X-Files day (Use your imagination - the ideas are out there!) Y Yacht race, etc Young Enterprise Scheme run by students, donate part of profits (eg making and selling cards) Z Zany parties |
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