Scout camp fundrasing ideas...

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Our local Scout group are trying to raise £2.5k to fund a Scouts & Explorers trip to the Isle of Wight next August. In Nov we're going on a night hike and getting people to sponsor us.

Is there any other types of fundrasing we can do to support this? All ideas welcome...

Quiz night, cake sale at a local event (fete etc), help Rotary with their seasonal Santa sleigh collection, bingo. My daughter is offering a badge sewing service to younger sections in her Group, to raise funds for WSJ.

Jumble sale, our troop raises a lot of money in our quarterly sales.

Bag packing at a big supermarket. Some customers will give you money not to pack their bags. Some will also give you a donation and some will give you the “ taking the trolley back money” You do have to liaise with the supermarkets first.

Anything where people get something back too. Wreath making nights, quiz nights etc people will get fed up of sponsor us for doing x

Great ideas from @moggerhanger

I totally agree with @Airconfan too.
I don't agree with asking people to 'sponsor' the dc to do something (unless it is something useful like number of hours litter picking, or planting trees for the Woodland Trust or something). You are effectively saying "Please will you pay for my child to go on holiday".
You have to offer something - a night out, cakes, chance to win a raffle prize, a 'jobs' auction / list, car wash, etc. Quiz nights are usually popular and attract people just because they like a quiz. Afternoon teas are also popular.
Jumble sales or car boots or table top (ie indoor car boot) sales can go down well, and you can do very well asking people who don't want a table if they have anything to donate to a 'Group table'.
See if anyone in the Group works for a Bank or similar where they sometimes have schemes to match fund anything you've raised.

If you can get local businesses to donate items for a raffle (themed is best, eg Christmas, Mother’s Day etc) and sell lots of tickets, then in my experience, this is the most direct bang for buck you can get.

Our Guide district does a disco evening running separate sessions back to back for different age groups. Charge an entry fee ( quietly free to families who really shouldn't be funding other children to go away when they struggle for money), have a tuck shop and sell small glow items or glitter tattoos.
We raise a lot and it's a popular evening.

Bingo night, beetle drive, scout leaders in stocks having wet sponges thrown at them always seems to be popular!

Our Scouts do bag packing at our local Tesco, personally I avoid them like the plague as they quite happily pack cakes followed by a crate of beer on top but plenty folk let them 😆, most people seem to throw a pound or 2 in the bucket.

There's usually a few standing shaking a bucket at our local farmers market as well.

Fee for service - Dads and scouts weeding, packing supermarket bags, wheeling in rubbish bins, mowing etc.chores for next door neighbours.
Cake stalls - cup cakes, biscuits, honey joys
Christmas Wreaths - making and selling
Car wash - at scout hall for one morning per week for eight weeks.
Trash and Treasure - donation trash auctioned off.
Preordered Christmas shortbread - in affilliation with manufacturing company.

Lots of small groups do bag packing for a day at our local supermarket, you could ask at yours?

Ours did:
bag packing at a local supermarket, it helped that people knew the children or their parents or even attended the same Scout group and they made a really good amount.
Quiz night, the older Explorers run it (with adult supervision)
These charity boxes at Tesco and Waitrose, you often run against charities so it may only be the last place but even that is £500.

Jumble sale - it can bring money but it's quite an organisation-heavy event. You sell a table for a fixed amount or a % of the taking (and this is then trusting the seller) - then everything is up to the seller but you need to do a lot of legwork to get it going and ideally you need a popular location.

Supermarket bag packing (or being paid not to bag pack) (will need permission)
Beetle drive
Tea coffee and cake stall at a local event (will need permission)

Various grant awarding bodies may help. Look at charity excellence and funding.ai websites, they have info and you can search them. Think Alpkit foundation may help, not sure, you need to check their eligibility criteria as some bodies exclude Scout groups. There are some charities that specifically award grants to Scout groups, you’d need to have a search around and see what you can find.

The best fund raisers involve obtaining a Temporary Event Notice to allow you to sell alcohol.
Running a beer tent at a local event/fair.
Race night, with cheese and wine/beer.
Add in a raffle with donated prizes (if selling tickets in advance you will need a gaming licence, but event sales only is ok I think)
And look into the Krispy Kreme doughnut fundraiser offer.
Bagpacking is good but you may be too late to get a decent Christmas Tesco slot. One adult/one scout or cub per checkout. Beavers and decent singer/musicians to carol-sing in the lobby with collection buckets.

Thanks all for your ideas, sorry I've been MIA from this thread!!

It was being discussed at the AGM a few nights ago that they were thinking of doing a quiz night where explorers cook a meal and people can pay admission as well as for a table, meal and drinks.

I like the idea personally but I don't think people should be charged for a table per say.

One of our local Scout groups has some very slick fundraising they do every year. Christmas tree collection and a Fathers Day bacon roll sale.
Bag packs are good.
Rotary club grant?
Events - especially where your audience is already your group, but you're doing something different like a disco or beetle drive (actually good fun)

https://lesliesellct.org.uk/
Not sure if your trip would qualify but this trust gives grants for Scouts and Guides

If you use this you must coordinate with the rest of the group. It usually only gives one grant to each trip I think. So for everyone to benefit the leaders need to apply.

Yes you're quite right. The Leader needs to apply for the Leslie Sell grants. There's a very specific window of time they need to do it in as well.

Auction of Promises, people feel happy that they are "getting" something for their money.

People normally expect to pay an entrance fee for a Quiz night.
Local to us is £2 per person in the pub, to £12 or £15 pp with quiz and dinner (variously fish and chips delivered from local chippy, or curry)

Make more money on raffle and if you can get a licence, sell wine and beer

Scouts near us did some plants grown from plug plants and nicely potted up which were a sell out.

you may just have time to organise a Xmas food market at the hut basically sausages, mulled wine , fizz, beer and sweet treats. Done it twice and made a lot of money. Didn’t bother with stalls or raffles

Mother’s Day / father’s day craft

Cheese and wine night