So how do I organise a really good fund raising pub quiz (it's scheduled for 3 weeks from today)?

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It's at our local village pub. All proceeds to primary school and pre-school.

*How much do I charge per participating adult?
*Do we have a maximum number per quiz team (eg teams should be no bigger than 8 people) for fairness, or is that unnecessary?
*Apart from charging £1 or £2 or whatever per participating adult, how else do we make money and boost funds?
*Any good websites for pub quiz questions (yes I can google and will do so, but if you happen to know of some and can save me the hassle)
*Anything else we need to think of?

Thanks
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maximum number of people is good so you know from a fundraising POV how much you are likely to make

Charges - depends ... is the room hire free?

do a raffle on the night - get some prizes donated (even if it is a bottle of wine) and sell a strip of tickets for another £1

other things - prize "trophy" for the winning team (a plastic one is fine and a bit of a giggle as well)

alert local press - good photo opp and publicity for the venue

Ask the pub if they will donate a round of drinks for the winning team as well

No charge for the venue - so that's good.

Good idea about alerting local media

Will ask pub for free round of drinks for the winning team - top idea (and perhaps a free pint or two for the quiz master - that would be me )

Should be able to rustle up a raffle prize or two. Good plan

we thought about a pub quiz, but decided to hold it in the village hall, charge more for the ticket and provide food and drink ourselves.

We made more money that way

Ah.....now that's thrown me!

I wondered about supplementing the quiz with heads and tails at the end of the pub quiz.

Would ask people who wanted to participate to stand up (and others to remain in their seats). Those who were standing up would then pay a £1 to participate, and we would commence the game of heads and tails (are you familiar - the organiser tosses a coin and you have to put your hands on your head or your bum depending on whether you think it will be heads or tails. When you get it wrong you have to sit down until there is only one person - the winner - left in the game)

Was thinking could give half the money from the £1 participation fee to the winner and retain half towards our fund raising

Good idea or naff?

heads and tails will be good fun - also, if you have a very generous winner they may well donate their half back to you!

A simple but effective one is the envelope draw.

Get a supply of cheap, small envelopes (try a pound shop).

'Sell' the envelopes throughout the evening for £1 each. The buyer puts their £1 inside, writes their name on, seals it and hands it back in.

At the end of the night you draw out 1 envelope and the person whose name is on it gets half of the envelopes as a prize. The other half of course is profit for your fundraising.

Very similiar to the heads & tails game but you get people participating all evening, rather than just those still with bums in seats at the end of the night.

The pub quiz I go to is £12 a table and max 6 per team.

They have various rounds of 6 questions then you pass your answers onto the next table for marking. and you have a joker you can play to gain double points for one round. When we arrive there are about 25 pictures of people to be named, sometimes they are connected, sometimes they are not. there is also another one handed out with 20-25 clues like 2p in a p. answers = 2 peas in a pod etc.

The last round is something like how many can you tick of say james Bond movies then list 10 JB movies (or hits by the beatles or whatever) then 10 fake ones. the teams have to guess how many they can predict if they get even 1 answer wrong in they score 0. so most play safe and just tick say a deffinate 5.

I think I like the £12 per table with max of 6 per team as it is easier to 'police' as it were (in terms of ensuring that everyone pays)

Love the envelope 'game' - so simple but effective!

Hi - we haverun a pub quiz as a fundraiser for my DS's school for a few years now. We hold it in the village pub - always a great night of fun. We charge Euro40 per team, 4 people per team. Collect entry money on night- put numbered envelope on table and they will put the Euro 40 in- easy to collect then.

We had 10 rounds, 8 questions per round, some great quiz question websites, try www.quiz-zone.co.uk mix it up with some picture rounds too. Ask parents and local businesses to donate raffle prizes - we live in a small village and small school (110 pupils) but managed to get about 40 prizes - everything from vouchers for local businesses to btls of wine. Sell raffle tkts at half time - we made more on the raffle than we did on the entry fees and we had 28 tables! (Euro2 for one strip of tkts , 3 strips for a fiver - everyone gives you a fiver or more!)

Good luck and have fun

PS - we gave money and a btl of (donated) wine each for 1st , 2nd and 3rd prize and two of the three winning teams gave the money back to the school-that's the tradition