Need to raise 2k for Charity any ideas on what works well ?

[LardLizard]

Ideas so far some sort of ball or dinner
Perhaps a race night or fun casino night

Doing a run
Any other ideas welcome please

Why specifically £2k and in what time frame?

Depends who for as well - some attract more people

Schools
Club
Sports

What’s the charity type

Why £2K? What charity?

It’s an animal chairty it’s in memory of someone

So raising funds for a specifici thing- like sponsoring a new kennel?

A promise auction - Google auction of promises for ideas. Can be online so relatively easy.

Not a ball or a dinner or a casino... Those things invariably cost more to host than they make. It’s the playing at it “seen to be seen” way of making money. People buy an expensive ticket and then drink and eat as much as they can to get their monies worth. Even if you get the venue for free it would raise more for the. Wine to give you a donation.

Much better to sell stuff. Ask for donations and eBay or Facebook. Get a licence and do a raffle. If you can get ten super first prizes donated, £2000 divided by a fiver is 400. Doable.

it would raise more for the. Wine = it would raise more if the venue 😁

How about a monthly numbers square type thing? PTAs often use these? You sell a square for a certain amount of cash - half cash collected goes to prizes and half to the charity - eg sell 100 squares @ £1 each - £50 in prizes and £50 to the charity. I think you need to get a small lottery licence from the council.

I volunteered with a local charity for years. Tombolas, no matter how crappy the prizes always raised a lot, as did raffles. If you can persuade a supermarket to let your volunteers bag pack instore you can raise hundreds in a single day. We raised over £250,000 in seven years for a specific local cause. Also if we ran big events by having volunteers who worked for certain banks meant the bank matched the money we raised. Our bigger events that were successful were Easter, Christmas and Halloween discos for children. There were many others too. Balls are expensive to hold and unless you're sure you can sell all the tickets you could get burned.