Anyone got any fundraising ideas for a village pre-school?

[JODIEwantsanewname]

I've just joined the committee for my DS's Pre-school and the fundraising sub-committee have both stepped down. I'm thinking of taking on the role of fundraiser, but need some ideas to take to the next meeting. We are seriously short on funds and need to do something drastically, other wise fees will need to go up a great deal

The ones I've thought of are,

1/ parents drop off unwanted stuff and I'll sell it on e-bay.
2/ having a 'spring fayre' (christmas was a no-no as the school, the 2 churhes and the WI each did one and they felt they didn't want to 'swamp' people)
3/organising a sponsered something or other for committee and staff to do, not sure what yet though, any ideas welcome.

What does your pre-school do thats successful?

Try to find out if any local schools, churches etc are having Fetes, or are there any local village festivals?. We usually try to have a stall as this cuts out a lot of the work advertising etc and we typically only pay about £10-£12. The added bonus is people also get to know about you and it always generates enquiries about places.

We typically do a childrens games stall with things like hook a duck (only need a water tray/pandling pool and rubber ducks), and games we have at Pre-school like throwing bean bags in different sized hoolahoops. Prizes can be anything from lollies (£ shop) to stickers etc from Baker Ross fundraising catalogue.

Hi Hipchick2, we did Funmats at our school. It was a great success!

Thanks for that ScampyGirl. Sent for the info and booked in for xmas. Products look great
www.funmats.co.uk if anyone else is interested.