A-Z Fundraising Events!

 

A

• Art do you know a painter, photographer or a potter? Get donations and hold an exhibition/sale
• Auction of promises' or a slave auction (get someone to offer to be a slave for the day or your manager to make coffee for the department for the week.
  Colleagues can bid for their services)

B

• Baby competition ask colleagues or friends to bring in baby photos of themselves. People pay to guess who's who great fun and prizes for the winners
• Bring and Buy - at work, in your garden or in the local sports club or community centre
• Barbecues
• Bag pack get a group together to bag pack at your local shopping centre. Don't forget a Garda permit and permission from the shopping centre

C

• Car Boot Sale – organise a Car Boot Sale in your work car park or the local church or sportsground car park.
  Charge each car an admission fee and then charge the public an entry fee
• Churchgate Collection don't forget to get permission from the priest and organise a Garda permit.
• Company contacts ask your suppliers for sponsorship, gift donations (get permission)
• Coffee morning, cake sale ask a local cookery class or school to help

D

• Dress down for the day. Pay for the privilege
• Diet you, friends and colleagues - €1 per pound
• Drink get sponsored to give up alcohol
• DJ do you, your children or friends know one? Ask them to do the music for your event
• Dye your hair blue in support of men with cancer and get family, friends or colleagues to sponsor you

E

• Email invites and reminders to friends, their friends' friends
• Ever ready keep your eyes open to opportunities and keep your sponsorship form handy (if appropriate)

F

• Fashion show
• Fancy dress party or day
• Fetes and fairs have a stall
• Fine box for colleagues' swearing or lateness
• Football kit day at work. Pay to wear one.

G

• Golf Day - tournament
• Guess the number e.g. balloons in a car, sweets in a jar etc.
• Games: monopoly, chess tournament, team trivial pursuit, scrabble pay to enter, donated prizes.

H

• Hobbies what hobbies can help you raise money sport, walking, cycling, art and craft, aromatherapy, massage etc.
• Horse racing & dogs sweepstake at work.

I

• Ink write to everyone you possibly can and ask for a donation
• International think about the country you're raising money for (if appropriate). Tie it in to your party, dinner or stall.

J

• Jazz night
• Jumble sale

K

• Karaoke evening (pay not to sing perhaps)
• Keepy Uppy Challenge organise a Keepy Uppy Challenge in work or in your local sports club. Ask everyone to donate a few euro to take part and the winner gets a prize while the collected funds are donated to our causes
• Kick-off 5-a-side tournament at work, between the local pubs or clubs

L

• Line dancing evening
• Library get your friends, family, colleagues to get a book from the library instead of buying it and to give you the money they've saved
• Lunch-less set a date for all your colleagues to bring in a packed lunch and then to give you the money they would have spent.

M

• Matched donation from your company
• Murder mystery party
• Meal ask a restaurant for reduced prices if you bring a large party on a weekday evening. Charge cover price plus extra. Raffle and games too.

N

• Neighbours. Offer to wash their windows, mow the lawn or throw a street party (if its big and in the street, get council authorisation). Charge admission.

O

• Organise events within events why not hold a raffle at your party or an auction at your sports tournament?
• Opera try to get a group discount on opera or theatre tickets and then charge everyone a bit extra for the outing.

P

• Party 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s beach, Easter, out of season Christmas, or no theme just for fun!
• Police cell ask if you can use a cell for the night. Get your work colleagues to sponsor you or your boss/director to spend the night there
• Pub crawl (fancy dress or three legged)
• Public humiliations get the director of the company in stocks and then throw tomatoes at them the more senior the better!

Q

• Quiz night organise one, ask your local pubs to give you a percentage of the takings
• Quiet time get a local youth group to do a sponsored silence

R

• Raffle get local businesses to donate prizes
• Races Three-legged, egg and spoon, relay
• Relatives Make the most of talented relatives who may be able to donate services, artwork etc. Get all of your family to ask all of their friends to sponsor you/come along to your events too.

S

• Services ask a hairdresser, beautician, masseur, tarot reader friend to come to your event and donate their proceeds or a day's tips
• Sponsored activities you and friends can walk, swim, dance, fast, bungee jump etc.
• Shave off your beard or your hair or someone else's (and get people to sponsor you)
• Street party
• Smoking sponsored abstinence, or/and donate the money you save

T

• Treasure Hunt
• Twenty-four-hour marathon: darts, stay awake or dancing. Sponsored or have a team competition
• Tail pin the tail on the donkey. Pay to play, donated prizes
• Tin collection tin or bucket to take to events:(make sure you get permission); contact us for details

U

• Use your network of colleagues and friends to come up with ideas and help with activities
• Unwanted and unused gifts ask friends and family, colleagues: use for prizes or car boot sale

V

• Valet service: offer to clean cars inside and out for all your family, friends and colleagues

W

• Website ask work if you can have a bit of space
• Wine and cheese party homemade wine, prizes and cheese donated. Guess the wine's country game. Charge admission and for entering games
• Waltz big band night (use old-time records if can't find a band) dinner-dance, admission fee
• Waxathon hold a waxathon in your local sports club, pub or at work. Get some friends to agree to be waxed but only if people sponsor them

X

• X-ercise - get your local gym to organise a work-out-a-thon
• X-factor competition

Y

• Young and old organise a big family reunion for all ages. Ask for donations, they're bound to vie with each other over who gives you the most!

Z

• Zest and zeal essential if you are going to make the best of your fundraising. Your challenge is demanding and exciting and your fundraising will make a real difference to people's lives. You should feel proud that you're doing it.