Welcome to our fundraising ideas page. We hope you find the suggestions listed below helpful!
The fundraising ideas below are tried and tested. They are simple, effective and easy to organise! All prize ideas suggested can be easily found using our key word search and of course, can be sold on stalls as well as used as prizes.
Do feel free to let us know about ideas which have worked for you, or items which have been particularly good at generating interest or money for your good cause, we'd love to publish them here. We will add more ideas and suggestions throughout the year.
(All prices quoted are approximate and subject to change, and as with all items on our website are subject to VAT )
Our website is brimming with great value items suitable for a wide range of fundraising - including stall prizes for Fetes, Fayres and all types of fundraisers; lucky dips, tombolas, raffles, Santa's Grottos and party bags. As you will see, tombola and game prizes start from as little as 9p each!
We're delighted to offer advice on suitable prizes or items to suit your budget, or let you know which items are best sellers or the most profitable for your charity or good cause - just drop Sue an email at sue@andersonswholesale.co.uk
Bag packing
Ask at your local supermarket about this, many will allow you to do it and accept donations for your good cause.
You will need: Adult supervisers for any children, signs and buckets or collecting pots clearly stating the cause you are raising money for (some shops may insist on these being security sealed with a slot for the money) t shirts/sweatshirts with the cause on ( optional) and some literature about the cause for those who want to know more .
Ideally, you need a person to man each till. Do make sure you give some advice on correct packing first so eggs stay intact and bread doesn't get squashed!
**You can make a lot of money on a busy Saturday! **
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Beat the Goalie
Get a willing adult or older child to be goalie (Dads will LOVE trying to beat Mums!) Make up a sign challenging people to beat the goalie, and offer 4 tries for £1.
You will need: A willing and fairly good goalie (or two or three to cover it in shifts if it's an all day event!) a robust goal - if you have an existing goalpost at your school or community centre or other chosen venue - great, use this! If not, try Argos for a flatpack, easy assembly goalpost and net from around £14.99. And of course, you will need some prizes.
You can either choose to have one really good, large prize (for example, if you're lucky enough to get a TV or bike donated by a local company) and record all the names and numbers of those who score 4, picking one winner at the end, and giving everyone a small item for taking part - see our sweets, football stickers and erasers, punch balloons or parachute men, all for around only 10p each!
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Give a small prize for anyone scoring 2 goals - see above for ideas for around 10p each , - a medium prize for a score of 3 - maybe a football keyring, tub of bubbles or mini pinball game, all for under 30p each and a larger prize for a score of 4 - maybe a football jetball, puzzle cube keyring, a set of pencils or a smiley sticker book - all for under 50p!
** See how competitive the men are! **
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Bowl a lemon
Buy a set of skittles but instead of using the ball, bowl a lemon at them instead - it's hilarious!
You will need: a set of cheap skittles, several lemons, and a flat, smooth surface to bowl on and some prizes.
You will only need a short distance for people to bowl over. But this is much harder than it sounds, as of course, the lemon won't go straight. Offer a prize for anyone knocking half or more over in 3 tries for £1.
**Really good fun both to watch and to play! **
Glider Contest
See who can fly their glider the furthest! Write the top distances on a board to encourage friendly competition and repeat attempts.
You will need : Gliders (cost from us around 9p each or less if bought in bulk) lolly sticks or plant labels, pens, 3 prizes and lots of space!
Sell entrants 2 gliders for 50p (they cost you under 10p each) and get them to write their name and number on two lolly sticks or plant labels.
Mark a line on the floor on which entrants must stand and get them to fly their gliders! Mark where their glider lands with the lolly stick or plant label and then let them take their glider home! Award one prize if you have a large prize, or smaller prizes for the 3 which fly the furthest.
** A fun game for all ages, with the bonus of everyone taking their gliders home! **
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**Guess the Birthday!! **
Simple and really cheap to do!
You will need: A diary or calendar and a large soft toy - (see OLLIE BIG BEAR)- which of course, can also be used as the prize - OR for something a little different, why not get someone to create or draw a person or creature and get people to guess their Birthday instead ? It could be a creature made of papier mache, a figure dressed in old clothes, a charity mascot, made up cartoon character, or whatever grabs your imagination! Display the person/creature next to your prize - which for example, could be a large tin of chocolates, a toy gift pack or a themed prize relevent to your cause.
Sell a day in the diary or calendar for your chosen amount - 25p or 50p depending on the value of the prize. Ask entrants to write their contact details on their chosen page. Choose the correct Birthday and set a date to draw the prize, or continue until you have sold all the days.
**At 50p a try, if you sell all the days you can make £170, or at 25p you can make £85, even if you have spent £12 on a prize!! **
Ask us for a free diary with your order if you are raising money for a good cause.
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Guess how many....
Sweets or marbles in the jar or balloons in the car...
You will need: A pen and sheet of paper to capture names, tel numbers and people's guesses, a large clear sweet jar, clean fish tank or something similar, and lots of wrapped sweets, jelly beans, marbles, pennies or anything else you can fill it with for people to guess the amount of! Or, fill a car with inflated balloons- whatever you use, do make sure you count the items first! You'll also need to decide what you use for a prize- don't offer what's in the jar as you can use this again and again! Offer one of our large soft toys like OLLIE BEAR or maybe a large box of assorted toys - we have some great value items you could put together to make a really eye catching display. (If two or more winning guesses are the same pick the winner out of a hat.)
Make an eye catching poster and display your prize to attract maximum attention. Offer 2 tries for 50p
** An easy fundraiser, you can use your jar again and again. **
Human Fruit Machine
Just as it sounds...!
You will need: A laminated sheet of prizes, small, medium and large prizes, and four volunteers - one with their hand in the air, the other three with sacks of fruit containing - apples, oranges, and bananas. Pull the arm down to start the 'machine' and the three rummaging about in the bags, with each revealing their fruit. Have a list nearby of the prizes for each winning line, i.e 2 apples, 3 oranges etc.
Offer 3 tries for £1
**Great fun to watch!** ( Tip featured on Money Saving Expert www.moneysavingexpert.com)
Lucky Dip or Mucky Dip!
Gift wrap toys and sweets and put them in a large box or toy bin with some shredded newspaper - or for a Mucky Dip use soil, mud, slime or even jelly (but have lots of water and paper towels handy!!)
You will need: A large sturdy container and lots of prizes -either unisex or clearly wrapped for girls and boys - think about age suitability too! Depending on the cost of your prizes, charge 50p or £1 per go.
** Email sue@andersonswholesale.co.uk if you need any advice, we have some great items to delight the children and make you lots of money.
Lucky Socks( or envelopes) ( featured on www.moneysavingexpert.com )
Very visual and eye catching!
You will need: String, lots of socks or envelopes, cloakroom tickets, plain paper and prizes. Put up two long rows of of string and peg socks to them. In each sock put either a folded up tombola ticket, or 'hard luck' note. The tombola ticket will correspond to a prize on a table.
Charge £1 for 3 tries, and have roughly one in 5 as a winner.
Ping Pong Pringles (thanks to Sue Bellingham for letting us know about this one!)
Attach empty Pringles tubes painted a bright colour to a large sheet of hardboard. People entering have to bounce a ping pong ball into a tube to win a prize.
Offer three tries for 50p. Give a prize for two or more balls in the tube. Make sure you have someone ready to catch the pinging ping pong balls!
You will need: All the P's ! Pringles tubes, paint, ping pong balls and prizes
** Simple and cheap! See Beat the Goalie above or the various website sections for prize suggestions.**
Play Your Cards Right ( higher or lower)
A great game to watch (as all those who've seen Brucie do it will know!)
You will need: An upright stand large enough to take giant playing cards -(see if you can get one made by the school woodwork dept rather than pay £400 like some other websites charge!) - prizes and a set of giant playing cards - at £4.25 our A4 playing cards are really great value.
Lay out two rows of 5 cards face down on your stand. Turn the first over, and ask the if the person playing wants to swop the card. Continue along the top row, once they have decided, by asking them if they think the next card will be higher or lower than the one just turned over. once they get to the 2nd row, ask them if they wih to keep the card or change it for another. Continue asking higher or lower and go along the bottom row too.They lose if they get the answer wrong; if they get to the end they get a prize from your selection on the table.
Charge 50p a time.
**Adults and children both love this game, have a selection of prizes suitable for each. **
Temporary tattoos, face painting and hair braiding
A great fundraiser at fetes and fayres!
You will need: Chairs, paper towels and water, face paints and someone good at face painting, a selection of temporary tattoos (the ones which rub or wash off, it's NOT advisable to use henna or other similar tattoos or paints) and hair braids, ribbons and slides.
Set your prices depending on the cost of your braids or tattoos and maybe have a few stallholders with painted faces.Make sure your signage is bright and eye catching. (It's also worth putting on your poster in small print that parents/guardians need to stay so you don't end up 'babysitting' children if parents go and look at other stalls!)
** Children love getting their faces painted and 'tattoos' done! **
Tombola with a difference No 1- Double deck-er!
Instead of tearing and folding loads of tickets, hold a playing card tombola using 2 decks of cards! Depending on the value of your prizes, make up a sign saying the charges are £1 for 3 goes, or 50p for 2 goes.
You will need: Two packs of playing cards- ours cost around 60p ex vat for two or why not use our large size playing cards? Ideally your cards should have different coloured backs so the packs don't end up getting confused, but this is not always necessary. The example below assumes your packs do have different coloured backs.
Pick out all the Picture Cards and Aces from the red backed pack and spread them out on a table, to give you a total of 16 winning options. Now put the rest of this pack of red backed cards back in the box and put them away, you won't need them. On top of each red backed Picture Card and Ace on your table, place a tombola prize (you may want to put a bigger or more valuable prize on the Aces and Kings). When someone has paid their money to enter the tombola, offer them the full, shuffled blue pack of cards to pick from. A prize is won by someone picking a picture card from the shuffled 52 cards in the blue backed pack and matching it with the picture card from the red pack the prize is sitting on on your table! Replace the winning card into the full blue backed pack each time and make sure you give them a really good shuffle! Once a prize is won, replace it with another on top of the now empty red backed card on the table and start the process again with the next person who enters the tombola. As you start to run out of prizes, simply remove a few picture cards from the table, or leave them empty, the choice is yours.
**It's simple and different, with no folding or endless searching for the right ticket!**
Tombola with a difference No 2 - mystery tombola!
Wrap some or all of your tombola prizes in coloured paper!
You will need: Tombola prizes, tombola tickets, coloured paper and /or gift bows, and sticky tape.
Maybe do a pink and red tombola for girls, and a blue and green one one for boys, or some prizes wrapped in yellow for Easter; with Christmas paper, topped with bows or in red and green crepe for Christmas and red and white for Mother's Day. We have some great value wrapping paper and loads of items suitable for tombolas and lucky dips and it's a great way to make money for your cause!
**A 'mystery' tombola looks really pretty, and adults and children love it!**
**Please send us your ideas!**
Our website is brimming with great value items suitable for a wide range of fundraising- including stall prizes for Fetes, Fayres and all types of fund -raisers; lucky dips, tombolas, raffles, Santa's Grottos and party bags. As you will see, tombola and game prizes start from as little as 9p each!
We're delighted to offer advice on suitable prizes or items to suit your budget, or let you know which items are best sellers or the most profitable for your charity or good cause - just drop Sue an email at sue@andersonswholesale.co.uk
