Did you have a School Fete and if so, how much money did you make?

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Just wondering what the average amount of money is really.

£13k according to deputy head this am!

About £1200-1500. School of approx 340 pupils but very mixed catchment. It's notoriously difficult to make money here, so we're very pleased with the money we've made since taking over as a team 4 years ago.

There's a village school a few miles away with fewer than 50 pupils, and they regularly make £3,000-5,000 at fetes and other events. But I think they benefit because school events are seen as 'village' events and everyone goes, and the village is also very very scenic so gets lots of tourists too.

Average amount £1 - £1.5k, this year almost double that.

its friday

but last one was £1700

should beat it but mostly outside and predicted storms- damn!

we're in a mixed ncome area, smallish school (just infants) and a pitifully small pta, so thats a real success for us

next year switching to saturday to cash in on tourists and old ladies in the village; and to allow teachers to help (we're a pa as being a pta would require teacher input)

dd's school has two classes in each year and is primary so that is 420 right?

Yes, that's about right

224 in our school, many of whom go straight to after school care so no parent to attend fayre iyswim

nearest other school got £2.5k at the wekend, they're tiny but because they hold it on a wekend they get lots more grandparents, passing trade etc and tey schedule it wth the village roman festival yoo so tourists. we'll do ours 2 weks later to be in with the arts festival i hope next year for same reason.

We have 210 kids. We made just under £4k this year.

Ours is on Fri, will be interested to find out!

am i alone at being STUNNED by these amounts?How much old crap do you sell?

ours is tomorrow, tho we only normally make about £1200 ish, we have very stingy parents, anything to do with putting their hand in their pockets and they will keeps the kids off school for the day so that dont have to part with their money.

TheChicken - I am amazed too, can't remember how much was raised at Christmas Fayre, but for a school of 410 children I know or believe strongly we wont be anywhere near 4k.
I am basing this on how much the school comittee has to beg for help/items/ etc and when there are days for raising money for charity. Area of school catches a range of families in differing financial situations, i.e not necessairly rich or poor

would love to know what sort of stalls you have to be able to raise that sort of money. You must have very good parent support too. We have NO EXTRA PARENTS coming to help out at ours, a couple of teachers and just the 5 members of our parent group.

Ours runs from 12 til 3 on a Sat and we split the time into hour slots and get volunteers to run a stall for an hour and then hand over to somebody else. Yes, it is difficult to get volunteers, but in the end we manage it and a great time is (usually) had by all! Teachers also help, but not all of them and often not fir the whole time.
BBQ run by local Scouts and we split the profits 50:50
Bouncy castles provided and manned by a company who give us a of the profits
Other stalls include, beat the goalie, coconut shy, pick a lolly, craft stall, tin can alley, hook a duck plus others. All pocket money prices too.
Also a raffle, and sweet and bottle tombola which both do well.

I think each year gets allocated something to do (ours was the kids tombola and lucky dip this year, at xmas it was the craft stall (ie kids pay to make things)

I think almost the whole school pitches in! They had for eg this year

Tombola
Silent Auction
Raffle
Lunches/Teas
Strawberries and cream
Trim trail competition
Football/Rugby/ other sports comps (eg fastest football kick by age group)
Bouncy castle
Big slide
Crafty bit
face painting
other games

There was no white elephant or toy stall or book stall this year as part of the playground shut for re-building so I guess they took less than usual.

Ours raised £4000 this year. We have almost 200 pupils + nursery. Its a Catholic school so there is support from the parish too. I think a lot of the money comes from the raffle. Its a huge achievement considering the very modest incomes round here.

50 kids in the school.

£320.

We make around £7000 on average - ours is not till next week.

About 500 children at the school, affluent catchment.

'One family of black face painted puppies kept coming back and back'

ROFL!!

ours was this weekend, it rained throughout so I guess takings will be down on last years gorgeous sunshine.

OK, our stalls:

Refreshments (includes alcohol - Pimms, beer etc)
Football penalty shoot out thing with a contraption that measures your speed
Cheerleading coaching type thing
Bungee run (dying to go on that myself!)
2nd hand book stall
Bouncy castle and bouncy slide
Adult tombola
Children's tombola
BBQ
Art corner
Pull a straw (self explantory I think)
Hook a bag (parents bring in small gift bags filled with goodies and the kids hook them off a board)
Auction (prices included a Lexus RX400 Hybrid for a weekend, iMac computer, meals at hotels etc)
Sweets and crisps
Hook a duck
Cake stall
Hair, nails, tattoos
Face painting
Cream teas (church ladies doing this)
Rainbow stall (new toys - each class brings in toys of a particular colour and the teachers run this one)
Ice cream van
Go Karts
Fire Engine

We also have a raffle - selling tickets atm - B&B in the new Hilton hotel with cocktails, signed Man Utd football, chauffer driven Aston Martin, meals, JL vouchers.....)

Blimey CD - £13K!!!!

We also charge entry - so we produce a programme and it's £2.50 for a family (2 adults, 4 children) - we make quite a lot on that.

DD small Special Needs school had theres yesterday and raised around £3000

Fantastic!