Ideas needed for raising cash.

[Enchanted]

Myself and a couple of other Mums are going to do a trek in Brazil for Breast Cancer Care. We need to raise quite a bit of dosh to go. Any funky, original or just plain naf fundraising ideas???
So far I have found my house, potty trained my ds, given up smoking and remained married all with your help. Come on girls get ye thinking caps on!

Plenty of naf ones!!!!
Nearly new kind of sale.
Auction of promises.
Sponsered time away from here!!!!!!!!!!
Depending on how much time you have to raise the money, there are hundreds of "sponsored" things you can do, but only bring in small amounts of cash at a time.
Our local paper always seem to have features on fundraisers, perhaps you could get them to do an article on you?
HTH.

Hi enchanted. One of my friend did one of these treks, in Peru. I'm trying to remember some of the fundraising stuff she did:

She made Christmas cards and decorations and sold them at the WI table top sales and school fetes.

She works at Heathrow and she did a couple of cake sales at work in the staff room. She and friends baked loads of goodies the day before and she sold them to her colleagues.

She put on a quiz night with supper, persuaded the pub to donate the use of the hall free and charged people for the tickets. She also did a raffle on this evening.

She did bag packing at Sainsbury's.

If I remember anything else I'll post again.

In the naff category:

If you work in a suitable environment you can hold a "Come As Someone Else Day" where you all pay money/get sponsors to dress up as someone else for the day. You have to be careful if you decide to go as one of your colleagues - imitation isn't always the sincerest form of flattery!

Cheers Folks some good ideas. How does the Auction of promises go Littlerach?
Keep em comming!
My niece did a bag back at Asda and raised £1,400 in one day!

I used to be Chair of the childrens' school PTA. One idea I had for xmas fayre (which they still do very successfully - more successful than Santa's Grotto!) is called The Wish Tank. It's basically a selective raffle. You have to beg companies and individuals to DONATE indulgent prizes ie. week's membership at health club, dinner for 2 at plush restaurant, hairdo at GOOD salon, Indian Head Massage/other holistic treatments, pedicure, manicure etc. You will need as many boxes/tubs as you have prizes and will need to write the prize on the front. Then you invite all your friends and their friends and their friends round. They then buy a piece of paper upon which they write their name and contact number and place it in the box which contains the prize which they would like to win. It may help to give each person a glass of wine (obviously donated by local offy or supermarket). You will need to charge for each "wish". If I haven't explained this very well, please let me know and I'll try again. I'll happily do some begging for you if you let me know your approx. locality. At the last Xmas Fayre I won a week's membership to David Lloyd Health Club.

Sorry - obviously at the end of the day, you draw one name from each box and that person wins the prize. Forgot to mention it!!!

That sounds great Jampot, how much do you charge for each ticket? The other ideas we have are quizz night, restaurant night (our village has no restaurant),we would do up the village hall like a restaurant/bar and book tables then get friends to work for the evening. Oh and as many bag packs as we can muster.
I live in Bedfordshire Jampot where are you?

You could do a raffle of the scratch and win tickets. Unfortunately it demands a little outlay to start with but say the entry is 1 x 1 pound scratchy + 1 pound to get a ticket to go in the draw for all the scratchy's. If you sold lots of tickets somebody could be in the draw for hundreds of scratchy cards (so it could be a cash prize) for say a 2 pound outlay and you get all the entry money.

Why not post on the weight loss thread and ask about a sponsored slim, or ask people to pledge to loose so many lb's by a certain date and they send you £1 for every lb they don't loose.

Enchanted, I'm in Solihull. We usually charge £3 for wishes but if you have some seriously good prizes I would be inclined to charge more. The price can be set once you have all the prizes in. Also as a little extra, a pal of mine used to work for Christian Dior and we had loads of samples for giveaways (donated obviously). John Lewis are pretty generous and of course you could get people to go round "begging" at their local beauty counters. Obviously when counters such as Estee Lauder, Clinique etc have their "giveaway" promos it is pure begging heaven!!!! Let me know if you're going to do this and I will begin my mission!!!!!

I want to raise some money for the Down Syndrome Educational Trust and other like DS charities and will use some of these ideas myself - I didn't think to ask on here for advice on ways to do it so thanks Enchanted!!

I was going to just have a massive party in town somewhere, get DJs etc, make it a proper club night and charge all my friends etc a miniumim of £5 with all proceeds going to the DSET so there's my idea!

I really don't want to hijack your thread but if anyone could give me / us more info on the packing bags thing - that sounds great.

Another idea would be to approach some local newspapers to sponsor part of your trip in exchange for keeping a diary of your journey to Brazil which they can publish. Why not look through the old threads on "media" and call/email the journalists. If they're not interested, they may know someone who is.

Jampot you are a genius! Your idea about a diary for the local press is a fantastic one, I will get straight on it. Also I would love you to do some begging for us, thats if you have the time.
Tomcat I'm glad this thread has been of use to you too. Down Syndrome education is another cause very close to my heart, I wish you the very best of luck and I would love to share my ideas with you. Bag Packs.. you contact one of the super stores, Asda's very obliging I hear. Get a load of mates and pack peoples shopping for a day or more if they willl let you. My niece did this and raised £1,400 in one day. Also look at this site:
fundraising-ideas.org/DIY/UKCollection.htm
Sorry I don't know how to do links, good luck and keep intouch.
Udar, I like the sound of the scratch card thing but I'm not sure I get it, I still have baby brain and ds's 3.5

Straight on it tomorrow Enchanted. When are you planning on going? Helen Pickles is a feature writer for You Magazine and posted a thread a while ago about "employed work from home mums" (about November time). She was really nice to talk to so is definitely worth a call.

This has good novelty value and can be an excellent fund raiser especially if you live in an affluent area. You have to beg a local farmer to lend you a fairly square/rectangle shaped field and a cow. You split the field into sections, say a square metre/foot (depending on size of field) (hypothetically)and then sell the squares off to punters. Then on a day and time previously set you allow the cow into the field and whichever square he drops his first clod on wins a pot of cash. If you have a square field and split it into 40x40 and sell each square for £5 you raise £8k - the prize could be £500. Maybe even have some "lucky squares" which would be pre-arranged and the owners of those squares could win say M & S vouchers or other minor prizes. It may also be worth your while speaking to the Lotteries & Gaming Dept of your local Council in case you need a licence.

Thanks Enchanted - I went straight to my local Sainsburys last night and am going to write to them today about it - thank you.

With regards to Jampots idea re a journalist - Aloha is a freelance journalist and she may be able to put you in touch with someone or give you some advice in that area, she's such a lovley girl as well so if she can help she will.

Meanwhile well done for doing this and masses of luck.
Love TC xx