Have you ever raised £10,000 from a single fundraising event?

[joanofarchitrave]

Just wondered what kind of event it was?

I'm considering getting stuck in to trying to achieve this, and thought it would be better to try for a single massive event than doing lots of dribs and drabs. Is it realistic to do this on an amateur basis with a group of well-meaning people??

Depends, only of you've got 10-20 rich and generous friends and a great cause.

Or can attract 3000-4000 people to a very-cheap-to-run event.

A local Zumba class had an event for the local hospice a few weeks back and think they are up to £8.5k in sponsor money so can be done. Just needs dedication by all involved and obviously the more there the better!

There are a group of friends organising a summer ball for 3 local charities. They know some very well connected people and are charging £70 a ticket, but expect to raise about £15k for charity (300ish people attending)

Wow, answers!! Thank you!

Do you know what sort of event it was Pootle? A flashmob Zumba perhaps??

Yes, we'll almost 9k at a charity fun night with massive raffle offering massive prizes like an overnight stay and a round of golf at gleneagles.

Generally these things tend to come down to how well connected you are. An alternative but less glamourous (for want of a better word!) way of raising lots of money is to encourage employers to set up payroll giving schemes and give you access to staff meetings/noticeboards/flyers in pay packets/etc to evangelicise and get people to sign up. If you have success with just a few large employers you could raise significant amounts over a 12-24 month period (when donations will taper off without ongoing work)

I've been to a small charity ball, not a huge swanky affair by far, it had a buffet done by the local college, lots of local bands for entertaining, a raffle and a bar, the tickets were £20 each, they must have had about 50 people there and raised 20k, the families invited and that attended were this directly effected by the illness that the charity is for though so there were a lot of family of people willing to really give as much as they could.