Fun Raffle Ideas

CAMAD

Hi, we are a charity and will be having a stall in a small summer charity fair. We are going to a tombola type raffle 50/50 prize. Does anyone have and good ideas of different types of 'instant win' raffles that can make it a little bit more exciting and different?

Thanks

christineperseus

lottery ticket for that night

Savvy_Sue

I don't really understand what you are saying, but one tombola which always did well for me was a Jam Jar tombola. You need plenty of supporters for it though, but you invite them to bring in a Jam Jar (or other jar / clear container) with something in it - sweets, little toys, stationery, pasta, toiletries, or even JAM! Label them all up, prize every time, we used to charge 50p but these days it would be £1 I suppose, always very popular and sold out in no time.

It worked for us because it was a school, so we'd encourage everyone to bring in something for it, we didn't do a bottle stall so it was affordable for everyone. We'd also encourage them to decorate their jam jars, and give a prize for the best in each class or year group.

May not work so well if you don't have a ready group of supporters to bring these in for you, but worth thinking about.

fran-o

We've done Bottle Tombolas before - a few star prizes of bottles of wine/ beer, then other bottles can include toiletries, soft drink bottles, jars of pickles, salad cream etc

Katiehound

I recently saw a different kind of bottle stall - except you always won a bottle. I'm not exactly sure how they did it ( I didn't have a go!!) All the bottles were in foil bottle bags- so you could see they were bottles- but not the labels! All the bottles had a foil cap so looked alike and authentic.(anyone who makes homemade wine can do that) For £1 a go you chose your bag, took out the bottle and handed back the bag (or paid about 50 pence if you wanted to keep the bag.) Some of the bottles were labelled 'Pure H20' and others were real bottles of wine! It would take a bit of preparation but the stall seemed to do quite well.

ih8stress

Years ago I went to a garden party where they 'raffled' chocolate selection boxes. They had some cardboard signs numbered 1 - 10 which they 'sold' for 20p each (and retrieved after each win). Someone then picked a numbered ball out of a bag to select the winner.

They did a roaring trade. You can obviously vary the prize to suit, use dice, playing cards or bingo balls etc instead (just remember to 'personalise' whatever numbered item you hand out for easy recognition).

Good luck