Ideas for my event?

You could also do a "living fruit machine". You need to get 3 volunteers and seat them side by side at a table, ideally with some kind of curtain or barrier between them so they can't see each other. They each have a pile of fruit or other objects in front of them - they all have to have the same things. Someone pays their money to spin the fruit machine, shouts go and the three people in the "fruit machine" grab something from their pile and hold it up - if all three are the same the competitor wins a small prize.

We do this at events for a charity I support and people love it. You could also adapt it so that two the same wins something really small or particular combinations win a bigger prize.

I've been involved in a few charity nights and things that are always popular are -
* Raffle (where have items on display on a table but also go around the room selling tickets)
* Sell food/drinks e.g bulk buy from Costco
* Silent auction
* Heads & Tails - works well if it's seated around tables, everyone on the table puts £5 into the table envelope & just before you toss a coin they have to put their hands on their head/bum, if the coin is heads then everyone with hands on their head stays standing & others sit down. Keep going till just 1 person wins (e.g win a prize). Is a bit of fun & gets v.competitive & great way to raise some extra money
* Matched funding - see if the company you work for will match the ££ or up to a certain amount of £ raised on the night

Hope it all goes well, I'm sure people will donate lots in memory of your husband & to help those in the futur

davemorton wrote: »

If some of the raffle prizes are particularly nice/different, hold an auction. It can be incorporated into the nights entertainment.

Great idea, though I hate standard auctions as it means people who can't afford to spend too much often miss out.

So how about a pound auction, where by at the start you give pens & paper out to people. You will need one person on the microphone & 2 or 3 people on the floor going around. Basically the long & short of it is that you start at number 1 & people buy a number for a pound. Beforehand you need to put a random number into an envelope & write the prize on the front of the envelope.

So the auctioneer states the prize & shouts out 'number 1' & whoever puts their hand up first (as judged by the people on the floor) gets that number, they write it down & give their £1 to the people working the floor, then the auctioneer shouts 'number 2' & it carries on until no one wants to buy any more. The envelope is then opened & whoever matches the winning number wins the prize. If the winning number is higher than the amount of numbers sold, it goes to the highest number.

Its a great way to get lots of people buying tickets & often you cant get lots of money spent for items that don't cost that much.