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Fundraising ideas, I need 20 of them for PTA!

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dontdillydally · 31/01/2011 11:18

given the task of finding 20 ideas for both pupils and some separate ones for parents to enjoy...please help!

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Mumsnut · 31/01/2011 11:30

Cake sales

Mufti Day (£1 each to wear own clothes rather than uniform)

Put the teachers in the stocks and throw wet sponges at them, £1 a go (perhaps for the Summer Term, at Sports Day ...)

Run a beer and Pimms and soft drink stall at rugby matches, sports days, etc.

Hold a Quiz Night

Hold a race night (video'd races)

Murder Mystery Night (if you're in Surrey, I can put you onto a good thing)

Ladies Shopping evening - stallholders pay a set fee or 10% of takings. The mums get a glass of bubbly free on arrival and crisps, etc, and pay a small entry fee. It is good to have an eyebrow person on the stalls.

Guess which baby photo was which teacher all those years ago, £1 a go. Put the photos in plastic though.

The baby photo thing also works within classes, £1 a go, 25 in a class, 8 classes is £200.

Skool Disco for parents - sounds of the seventies and eighties, school uniform to be worn. Pay bar and a burger van - needn't be expensive. Prize for best 'uniform'.

Sponsored run / trampoline bounce / etc. Smaller times / distances for younger pupils.

I do too much of these things ...

CrosswordAddict · 31/01/2011 11:57

Do you already have a HUNDREDS CLUB? This is where parents pay £1 for a number between 1-100. Then each month there is a prize 1st, 2nd, etc.It's a cheap painless way to raise money.
Sorry if it seems too tame!

bumpybecky · 31/01/2011 12:40

bags2school ask parents to bring in old clothes / bedding the company come and collect and pay you by weight :)

Hassled · 31/01/2011 12:43

I suspect you're on a hiding to nothing with a secondary school - PTAs are notoriously under-supported at that level.

But yes, quiz nights, raffles (send out begging letters to any local business you can think of. Mobile phone recycling - you send them all envelopes to post old phones in, PTA gets a cut.

Talkinpeace · 31/01/2011 13:26

www.ncpta.org.uk/information/100582/fundraising/

FrumpyPumpy · 31/01/2011 13:29

Parents donate decent unwanted clothing etc and have a sale; £1 per item to buy.

GooseyLoosey · 31/01/2011 13:32

Book swap - people go and drop off piles of unwanted books. They can buy other people's books at say £1 a book with the proceeds going to the PTA.

Roving dinners. Parents pay say £20 a ticket for dinner and then several hosts cook it (donating the food). The adults move around for each course with say 8 people at each course. Makes loads of money.

Milliways · 31/01/2011 18:44

Bonus Ball. You buy a £1 ticket for a number between 1 & 49. Whatever the lottery bonus ball is that week, that person wins £25, school gets £24.

Instead of paying cash for a Mufti Day, pupils bring in a bottle or jar for the next Tombola.

Summer BBQ with family rounders / cricket etc

Catsmamma · 31/01/2011 18:52

Penny Tower or trail...Each class compete to make the tallest or longest pile of pennies...school keeps the money obviously!

Our primary used to collect the old yellow pages...not sure you get money but the prizes were great for the winning school, and a few enterprising students collected the old ones by knocking on doors, or getting parents to blag the old ones for their workplaces.

freerangeeggs · 31/01/2011 22:28

Our school PTA held an auction and people donated prizes. For example, some teachers offered tuition, some people offered to make a nice dinner for the winner, or paint a portrait. It was pretty successful.

mnistooaddictive · 01/02/2011 12:17

The best one we ever did was Teacher Karaoke. The teachers all sang, usually in groups one lunchtime and the pupils paid to come and see them. They paid a £1 each and we made a fortune! You just have to persuade the teachers to do it!

Greenshadow · 01/02/2011 19:25

I'm on a secondary school PTA and would agree that most of the ideas which work in a primary school are non-starters here.
Our most successful event is our annual Christmas Fayre/craft fayre. It's a mixture - about 2/3rds external craft stall who pay about £20 for a stall and the rest made up of school stalls - bottle tombola, books, raffle, refreshments, second hand uniform etc.

We also make a few thousand a year by parents signing up for a standing order and donating anything upwards from £10/year. Numbers are really falling off for this though.
We're are thinking of replacing this with a 100 Club.

Other things that have worked have been quizes, a medieval night and 1940s night.
Later this year we are planning a wine tasting evening and a golf day (never tried this before, but apparently you can make a packet on it and it will often bring in non-parents which is always welcome).

One thing that didn't work for us however, was a Promises Auction. Had lots of offers but not enough people brought tickets for the actual auction and it had to be cancelled. Worked very well at our primary school though.

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loudrum1 · 22/01/2013 15:37

We ran a car boot sale on the school car park. We charge £10 a car and free entry to buyers. We also had a refreshment stand (which raised over £500) and our own stall with items donated by parents. In total we raised over £1000

MaryMargaret · 25/01/2013 20:41

Something my kids' school did once - and I wished they had done again - was to get kids in an art lesson to make simple but really attractive art works (they were torn paper collages as I recall?) in cheap clip frames, and sold, just before Christmas. BRILLIANT present for the rellies, and hard to refuse to buy them! (They were so nice I'd have happily bought other kids' too if had been left over). Need the art dept to co-operate of course, but I thought really nice fundraiser.

ivykaty44 · 25/01/2013 20:46

dd's school did a treasure hunt around the local area followed by a BBQ at the school afterwards, it was a few pounds to enter the hunt and this included the food afters.

Easter egg hunt

Pancake race - pay to enter the race and get to run with your own cooked pancake and pan Grin

ivykaty44 · 25/01/2013 20:47

dd\s secondary school had a headmaster quiz night, which meant the head teacher also had a team which was all teachers - the idea of course was to beat the head teachers team Smile

Kathy420 · 25/01/2013 22:57

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timidviper · 25/01/2013 23:11

At DCs primary school each child was asked to take a yoghurt pot, put a prize costing £1 or less in it, seal it up then decorate it. School gave a prize for the best in each class, pots then sold for £1 each at School Fair

Kathy420 · 25/01/2013 23:16

^ Great idea if it was thought up of by a 6 year old.

blossomhillontapplease · 25/01/2013 23:41

A few years ago we held an auction. We phoned local buisnesses, record labels etc for donations. We were very cheeky Wink and asked for reduced/free room hire food and sold tables to local companies.

This took a great deal of commitment just to try and organise but we had a few brilliant items that people where prepared to pay for. Smile

You could also try and auction a member of PTA/staff off to do housework for a day or something like that.....we tried this, initially some people volunteered but got a little [sceptical] given some of the suggestions from some of the volunteers Grin.

It was a successful night and raised good amount of money.

ben5 · 25/01/2013 23:53

5p Friday. Set a date maybe for the last week of term and bring in all your 5ps in ( I'm in Oz we had 5c Friday and raised $600)
we did a fete. bloody hard work for about 6-8mths but raised $10,000
plant stalls
is your school closed for voting at any stage? if so do a sausage sizzle on the day
do B&Q have people doing sausage sizzles over the weekend? If so see if you can get into this. We have done a few and made $1000
christmas cards/calanders
biggest thing you have to do though is to state what you are raising money for and spend it on that as soon as you have rasied the amount. Good luck

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