Ideas for DS14 to do for a sponsored something...

It was set up on a building that doesn’t normally have any abseiling going on by the charity. I really can’t remember if I paid or if it was free as a fundraising event full of volunteers manning it. I don’t think it’s a good way to raise money really because it was me basically having a brilliant day and I think like others have said people should overcome a challenge or something to be sponsored.

i did recently do a sponsored sky dive. I paid for the sky dive and all the sponsor money went to charity. I don’t like the idea of people’s sponsor money paying for the event either so I was sure to pay for my own sky dive.

He should hire himself out for jobs rather than pointless sponsoring. Far more useful. Friends student Dd was going to hire herself out as a pre Christmas assistant. Would totally pay for that

And yet you still haven’t answered the question about WHY he is doing this. You’d get better answers if you did because frankly I think people are struggling to give answers due to your lack of clarity.

He could offer to wrap up people's presents for a small fee, I hate wrapping, it's something I'd pay for

I'd be most inclined to sponsor someone to do something useful. Sponsored litter pick for example. Swimming or abseiling or some other exciting activity doesn't add any extra value to the cause, isn't sufficiently entertaining for would be sponsors to buy into, and often requires 'waste' in terms of the cost of doing the activity.

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Fundraising ideas

Okay, I’ll answer your question.

Ideas:,
run a marathon
cycle from castle a to cycle b
Row a canoe across the Solent
swim seven miles down the river Severn
Sit in a bath of bake beans for 24 hours
Watch a football match at every FA football team club in England

£5 a sack! 🤣 maybe 50p. Our local litter pickers as a group regularly pick up 20 bags or more in a morning!

I wouldn't have thought it surprising many friends and family will sponsor you regardless of what you do as it is, for most, done through a sense of obligation/duty/pressure not to say no to the child even when they don't care or want to sponsor.

If you are doing to a tougher, unknown crowd you need to market what you are doing and make it something people will see value in and actively engage with/want to see done.

It is not about the charity (people who want to give to charity already do), it is about the child and the activity.

Someone shows up at my door asking me to sponsor them for a swim they will be told I don't have any cash. Someone marketing they are going to clean up my neighbourhood litter wearing a costume and if I can sponsor them by the bag of litter which they will share photos of in the local facebook group then I'm interested and will be generous as I value the activity for the community and the size of the task. I don't care if the charity is for kidneys or cats, as I am not going to investigate on the door step if it is a worthwhile charity.

I agree with lots of PP that I would be pretty fed up at being asked to sponsor someone to do something useless like swim or walk.

On the other hand, I’d be happy to sponsor someone for picking litter, walking shelter dogs, reading to people in a care home etc.

These days there's so many sponsored events going on that people mostly donate because they want to donate to the charity anyway, or because they want to support their close family member/friend. So it doesn't really matter what he does. If you want him to have a project to work on, just pick that and make a separate donation to charity.

In our village, we have a small group of people who do litter picking voluntarily once a month.

What would you sponsor? £5 for every sack filled? Per street? Per hour?

But what if he couldn't do the litter pick for some reason.
Would people then not donate?
Surely you do a litter pick because you want to do that for the community. That's the "charitable" reason.

You’d do the litter pick and in thanks the neighbours would donate £5 to whatever the charity is? Much more useful than just running up a hill or something.

You still haven’t given the reason for doing a sponsored event - how has this come about and what is the purpose (obviously it’s to raise money but why)?

@washingandcleaningtoday sorry if this all sounds negative.
Things I think that are good for raising money are things that can be done by a group.
For example...
Car Boot Sale/jumble sale (all proceeds to the charity)
Car Wash (usually a summer thing)
Christmas Card delivery service (a local thing that instead of people buying stamps to post cards they pay for a local group to hand deliver cards)
Putting on an event like a Bingo night.

Yes, I agree with the first poster. Being sponsored to do something fun or achieve something for yourself is all a bit of a nonsense. I don't ever sponsor events like that.

When people are doing something useful for charity, I'll support it. Putting on a dinner, baking cakes, gardening, washing cars.

To be honest if the charity/cause is something I feel I would like to donate to I don't always think someone has to do something for it.
For example if your sons school library had a load of books destroyed by a fire or something and a request is put out for donations of money to replace the books - I would happily just donate the money.
I wouldn't expect him to swim 100 lengths or something. What if he couldn't do it? Should I then say "well sorry but you can't have new books now"?

I think people know how a sponsored event works. However, nowadays, there’s definitely sponsor-fatigue so you’ll find that people won’t sponsor, just because.

People sponsor people because they believe in the cause, or the person. Asking someone to sponsor a random event, is, to put it simply, begging. It may be important to the person doing the event, but not to the person being asked to sponsor them.

so to do a sponsored event with no real passion for the challenge or charity is rather random.

I think sponsored events are becoming less popular as people are reluctant to fund an activity the recipient wants to do anyway like a 10k run. What about a blind card or sweepstake with the option to win a portion of the money and the rest of the proceeds going to the charity. My (much younger) DD did a guess the number of jelly beans in the jar at a family party last year and raised £25 for charity and one happy relative got to take away the jar. Is there a teen version he could adapt this concept to like an online gaming competition with the winner of the F1 race or whatever taking a small cash prize?