PTA Cookbooks

[silveryshoes]

Hi,
I'd like to put together a cookbook of kids recipes and sell to raise money for our infant school PTA.

While there seems to be loads of US sites offering cheap printing/ fundraiisng - can't seem to find any UK ones. But lots of minutes online from various PTA meeting saying how well their cook books are selling.

Has anyone done this and could point me in the right direction. Sure I could put it together fine, but its just the printing, want it too look reasonable but not cost the earth so we can sell for some profit.

Are there any other threads here on PTA fundraising ideas. Also thought of selling Xmas cards.....

Many thanks

We did one and found a parent of a child in school who had contacts and got us a fab deal. Worth a try

thanks. I'll ask around next meeting.

Why not put together one yourself and get it bound nicely by a printing firm with a glossy front cover? Front cover could be a picture done by the children? Our school's doing one and it's turning into a major production (unnecessarily in my view) as the people producing it seem to have lost sight of the fact that it's a fundraiser and are more focussed on making it as glossy and gorgeous looking as possible, which is making the production price prohibitive.

Another idea - our PTA did a planner calendar last year which was sold at Christmas time. Each page featured a photo of each class in a "fun" pose and it sold well. They pre-printed the key school dates on it so it was very useful. HTH.

Thanks Maggie

Planner is a great idea - I know we always get letters about school fetes, book weeks, training days etc, but I always lose them!

And good tip about the book - must admit that is my main fear, that it ends up being a lot of work and we only make 5p profit per book! Will try and find some local printers...