to ask you all for fundraising ideas because no one on chat will give me any

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What are your best fundraisers that raised the most but cost you least to hold?

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Cake sale
Carol concert
Golf day

Depends on your resources and likely supporters to be honest.

Quiz nights can also bring in big bucks and are dead easy

Depends on what you are fundraising for, how much you are aiming for and how many of you there are. Bag packing can raise a lot - our group raised nearly £900 in 6 hours at a small supermarket. Ladies Pamper Evenings raise between £500-£1000 in my experience. Raffles can raise anything from £30- £1000's depending on the prizes, but watch out for gambling laws and licences.

We are trying a craft fair next week, charging for the tables. Film night. Coach trip. Depends if you have to rent a room or have a venue already.

Sponsored toddle/buggy push (for local neonatal unit). Cost almost nothing to run and we raised £4k. Could have been more I think if we had spent more time getting the message out.

Helped a lot that plenty of people were pretty passionate about the cause. What are you raising money for?

I'm shaving my head on the £13th of December. I've got nearly £1k so far

It totally depends on your resources and Tory supporters.

Personally I have raised the most money by doing a sponsored skydive, but it was a long time ago and before people started to get sponsorship fatigue.

As a group, raffles have worked well, as well as big parties with a guest speaker and band that donate their time.

Auction at the end of a quiz, but I felt awful having to do it as people felt obliged to bid.

Race nights are good if you can get a venue for free and know lots of people who could come.

And I agree with the sponsored toddle/buggy push!

Just be very careful about things like licenses for events and Public Liability Insurance etc.

Rather than the usual cupcakes, I held a school stand with a chocolate fountain. Messy, but made more than the other tables put together.

Will pm you my friend's idea that made mega amount as it will out me.

See if you can persuade anyone who's employer offers a £ for £ charity match to man the best performing stall for 10 mins if they are too busy to do the whole event and photo them doing it for proof

30 day £ challenge - give everyone £1 and 30 days to make the most cash

What are you fundraising for?

Cake Sale - your local Asda will let you use their store to hold a bake sale for free.

Lots of passing trade, people donate cake, you then just charge £1 per item - people will lap it up!

It's easy money.

Bag2school clothes collection is probably the easiest thing we do. Send a letter and some bags out with a date for return. Then hang round until collected - few weeks later cheque for few hundred quid! Beats most of the stalls at the summer fair hands down, even cakes!

what are you fundraising for? what total target?

Sorry go faster, it was a bigger fund raising event for adults.

I have just read a piece in a local magazine about a company that makes plum puddings, cakes etc, and puts names of the event or cause on the wrapping.
They sell them cheaply and then the cause resells them to people with a mark up on to raise money.

I can't recall all the details (except that they also make Christmas puddings for a well known London grocer) but it sounded a very imaginative and successful way of raising funds.

Sponsored pegging?

Beetle drive or bingo night.

Depends on the scenario... I do a football scratch card thing everytime my DS has a home game... the cards were £1.50 for about 40 (* from ebay) It takes 15 minutes each time and I raise a straight £20 profit for the club... so not as profitable as most of the suggestions above, but over a season I expect to raise almost £200

Depends what you are fundraising for.

Cake Sale - have done these for school, for children's centre and for Bliss Premature Baby Charity. Always very popular.

Marshmallow kebabs always seem to be a good seller. Three marshmallows and a couple of grapes on a stick for 50p.

Memory Tree/Wish tree - sell a gift tag for 50p so people can write a special message or name on them or write a wish on them. Hang them on the tree, keep it on display for a week or so.

Balloon tombola - people donate the prizes, number each prize and put a corresponding number in an inflated balloon. Pay £1 to pop a balloon, win the prize whose number is inside it.

String pull bottle raffle - you have a selection of bottles, anything from alcohol to water to fruit shoots, all with a long string tied to them. Have the bottles on a table with a big board in front of them. Thread the strings over the top of the board and through a cardboard tube attached to the board. Pay £1 to select and pull one string, win the bottle attached to it.

Lucky dip - always seems to be popular if you can get lots of little gift items in paper bags, just need a big box and lots of shredded paper to put them in.

Sponge throwing - especially popular at school fundraises if the teachers will be targets. Head teacher especially seems to be a popular target.

Guess the bear's birthday - you just need a small bear and a calendar and get people to pay 20p a date to write their name and phone number on the date they think is his birthday. Pick a birthday out of a hat once all the squares are filled or your event is over. Small bears seem more popular with parents than giant ones, although once we raffled the same giant tiger about four or five times before someone actually claimed him

Pie and peas bingo night or quiz night went quite well too.