Fundraising ideas in a small school

[PurpleEglu]

Looking for help from the great and good of MN. Our school is lokking for new fundraising ideas.

We are particularly small school, only 35 pupils, so fundraising can be quite difficult.

If anybody has any experience of good fundraisers in a small school I would be really appreciative.

Our School uses www.apfs.org.uk which uses projects like children designing christmas cards and then the school gets a small portion of the cards sold.
Do you do second hand uniform sale again our school does this and school gets 25% of sale price parent gets 75% back.
Holding christmas fair in school hall that people like virgin vie and phoenix traders come to pay for stall and is open to general public not just school people.
Most recent is Quiz night open to general public teams of 8 £10 per head includes fish and chip supper.

Here Cashback site where the school gets the cashback.

There are some great ideas there thank you.

Tamarto that cashback site looks great.

Bump for the evening crowd.

The school I am about to start at has only about 35 pupils. They had a possum hunt and the people who killed the most won a prize. It was a fund raiser so I assume people paid to take part and the school got money for the dead possums.

P.S. This may not work where you are as I have just moved to New Zealand.

charmander, not so many possums in Scotland. But I like their style.

I pressed a button and lost my 1st post grrr. One thing that the school I once worked in which was small only 35 pupils had a craft fair where local bisnesses pay to have their stall in the school. For example therewas an Usborn books lady and the Avon woman.

We also charged for entry and a raffle all in all we made 1000 pounds which was match funded by barkleys bank.

We also invited people from the village to come.

The school also had their own stall.

That sounds great Cloudhopper. We are having a summer fair and had discussed getting extra people in on the stalls.

We had a combined teddy bears picnic and craft fair at DDs pre school which had about 50 pupils. The PTA made up lunchbags, with food donated by a local supermarket, which we sold for £2 and then invited local crafty types to have stalls so the parents could do a bit of shopping afterwards.

Thanks Ladies for more great ideas. I will be putting all of these to the committee when we next meet.

Hi PurpleEglu - Have you heard about Peter Pan Week at all? It's a week long event of fundraising that runs from the 26th until the 30th April culminating in a Guiness World Record attempt for the largest number of people dressed as characters from Peter Pan. Have a look at the link below:

www.gosh.org/peterpan/schools-and-youth-groups/peter-pan-week-2010/

Is this the kind of thing you were looking for?

Amy x

THanks GOSH and Madame, am willing to think about any ideas

Hi,

A school in Chester used us to raise money through a "crowdfunding" website - www.peoplefund.it - this kind of thing would be great for small schools especially as it gets you online rather than just relying on people coming to events/buying tickets etc...

They raised £5,000 and built a solar powered outdoor classroom!

www.peoplefund.it/the-hive-upton/

It's really easy to set up and schools/PTAs can reach everyone online - even passing millionaires!!

Message me if you want any help with it.

Simon

Do you have an M&S nearby? DD goes to a local village school (55 on roll, I think) and our PTA organised a bag pack at our local M&S. About 20 parents volunteered an hour each. Over the course of the 4hrs we were there, we raised around £700.