Fundraising for school PTA

netti

We have asked parents to gift aid their donation but a lot of people either don't realise they should, or aren't eligible anyway.

Also our school has a charity committee which raises funds for outside causes. All of our non-uniform days go towards this along with other in school events.

Communication is a real problem at High School. If the kids aren't interested they won't pester their parents. We are going to speak to the school council (a group of students) to ask them what they would like us to fundraise for and how we should go about it. Perhaps with their input we will have more success?

We do collect supermarket vouchers at our school but with no local Tesco we never get very many! Waitrose have been very generous and included us in their charity donation. The way forward seems to be trying to get money without having to bother the parents for it!

Alleycat

At our primary school we have class reps who help with the organising of various events. For example there is a weekly cake stall which each class takes it in turns to bake for and run. The class reps organise their own parents to bake and sell.

There are the usual Christmas, Easter and Summer fairs with nearly new toys, pocket money toys, tombola, raffle, cake stall, plant stall and home produce (jams, chutneys etc). Then there are the seasonal stalls such as hook a duck, face painting/temp tattoos, kids crafts.

We also have regular (each half term) second hand school uniform sales. This usually generates quite a decent amount and is always popular. We are going to be starting regular second hand clothes stalls each term or so as the first one we did at the easter fair did very well.

Once a term there is an evening event such as bingo, quiz night, horse racing night etc. People pay an entry fee on the door, there is a small bar and people are asked to bring in dishes of food to sell. They are usually well attended and again a decent amount raised.

We've now done two bag2school collections and raised nearly £1000 I think it was. Hard work lugging the bags of clothes and fabric around but it was good fun.

Finally, we get donations and support from local Estate Agents. In the autumn term, a local agent offered a scheme whereby local residents who sold their properties through them could complete a form and a percentage of the agent's fees was given to the school. I don't think they'll be doing that one again in a hurry though as I don't think they realised how popular it would be! The main one for the Estate Agents though are advertising boards for the Christmas/Easter/Summer fairs and financial support for the admin costs i.e. flyers, signs etc.

XxXfashionqueenXxX

Anyone tried kids on the catwalk? Basically you get the kids interested to become models in a fashion show which they all do for you. Then you sell tickets for the show!

doodledoodle24

Well, we had our 'indulgence evening' on friday and made just over £1,500 in 2 and half hours!
We had therapists of all kinds around the hall, a raffle, cakes,wine, etc, foot spas, workshops, it was a fantastic night, sold all 100 tickets we had printed!

QueenBee

doodledoodle24 wrote: »

Well, we had our 'indulgence evening' on friday and made just over £1,500 in 2 and half hours!
We had therapists of all kinds around the hall, a raffle, cakes,wine, etc, foot spas, workshops, it was a fantastic night, sold all 100 tickets we had printed!

What a great amount :T

Have our first summer fair coming up in July - any ideas to make it a super dooper event? TIA:D

woodywoody

doodledoodle24 wrote: »

Well, we had our 'indulgence evening' on friday and made just over £1,500 in 2 and half hours!
We had therapists of all kinds around the hall, a raffle, cakes,wine, etc, foot spas, workshops, it was a fantastic night, sold all 100 tickets we had printed!

Hi thats a fantastic amount, someone mentioned something similar at our meeting this morning but we have no idea how to really organise it, did you use a proper company like body shop or just local people? and did you charge them a fee for the stall or did you share a percentage of the profits?
sorry for all the questions
TIA

doodledoodle24

woodywoody wrote: »

Hi thats a fantastic amount, someone mentioned something similar at our meeting this morning but we have no idea how to really organise it, did you use a proper company like body shop or just local people? and did you charge them a fee for the stall or did you share a percentage of the profits?
sorry for all the questions
TIA

Hello,

No we did it all ourselves, we got 100 samples donated from lush, avon, & ecover, which were used in free goody bags that we made up for every ticket holder.

Tickets were vistaprint business cards

Sold tickets at £3.50 each which included the goody bag and 1 raffle ticket and a copy of the programme.

Tickets were sold 2 weeks before the event, and came with a sheet of all therapist available and their telephone numbers. The ticket holders had to ring and book into a 15 minute slot before the event.

We approached various therapy people (massage, reiki etc), we had avon and independant clothing boutiques take stalls too.
We didnt charge a stall price, just 15% off their takings on the night, plus a raffle prize donated.

The busiest stalls we had were the clairvoyant and the reiki/indian head massage, so much so that the next event we are planning is a clairvoyant night in October:)

We had 4 foot spas, with someone running them, cleaning changing water etc. Charged £2 for 15 minutes, this was mega busy!

Also had the bar, selling wine and soft drinks/tea/coffee, and home made cakes donated.

HTH

Leah123

We are thinking about investing in a popcorn machine to use at our PTA events. Has anyone recently purchased one and can advise where from and if it has proven to be worth the investment?

nosherw

Does anyone do Jumble sales anymore (for those of us who remember then) If so do they bring in much in the way of funds

Loving this thread,

I am on committee for a pre-school and as previous people have said its the mothers who cannot be bothered to get involved that make my blood boil OR mothers who leave there children at the stay and play (where we have a few stalls and a play morning for the children) and then dont bother leaving the children any money for a cake :mad:

tenzing

Yes, they seem to be back in fashion. We've done them at church and made a load of money on (seemingly) a load of old tat. We've also done tabletops which don't bring anyone in and don't make anything. Same sort of stuff but if you label it "Jumble Sale" it seems to appeal. Good luck!