PTA Fundraising Ideas please help.......

Doozergirl

My husband is organising a Grand Raffle for Easter. He's been asking local businesses that he deals with to donate a prize. Amazingly, we have a 27" HD Ready TV, a mobile phone with £50 credit, a box of Moet & Chandon, a luxury easter hamper, a £100 voucher to spend at a local reclamation yard and several free meals at local pubs.

Tickets will be £5 each which we think is acceptable considering the quality of prize available. Each ticket mentions the prize and the company that has donated it in bold. We'll see how we do, but considering the prizes are all donated, every penny should be profit!

Shame on the local Tesco Extra who he had several telephone conversations with and they asked us to put it in writing (company procedure). Didn't even grace him with a response.

little_lil

I am so glad i found this thread, we are having a problem with our chairman very similar to kellogs and we really need some new blood and new ideas. I am printing this thread off and will take your ideas to our next committee meetings. i feel it may be interesting when our Chair finds there are new members who are determined that a committee should be a group effort.

Wish us luck

little_lil

have just remembered one idea we have which hasn't been mentioned is a parent "craft club" where members get together and create home-made cards which are then sold with profits going to the school. We have some very talented crafters who have already expressed real interest in this idea.

Savvy_Sue

In my experience, the ONLY way to get other people involved is to ask them personally. You can send out letters until all the trees are cut down, but if every current active PTA member could persuade one other to help at one event, you've halved the workload at that event! Then when they've found you're a friendly bunch, with someone running round with tea for the helpers all afternoon, and offering each stall holder a break so they can have a look round, they'll be willing to come back for more!

franklally

Buy a tube of smarties for each child and put their name on it - have a smarties fill-a-tube fundraiser - they obviously eat the smarties and return the empty tube filled with coins - its surprising how many £1 and 20p coins you can get in a tube!

You may want to send out a note to parents with the tube suggesting that if their child does not want to take part just return the tube to the office.

Gingernutmeg

Following on from the Smarties idea - I remember a fundraiser at my school where the PTA ran a competiton where the challenge was to find the person who could fit the most things into a Smartie tube. We all got an entry form where the items could be listed, and then we all paid a fee to enter. Everyone had to buy their own tube of Smarties so obviously the cost to the PTA to set this up was very low! The competition really caught everyone's imagination and I seem to remember the winner had over 100 things in their tube, ranging from coins to cats whiskers to pencil leads!! There was a small prize for the winner and runner up, and then the rest of the money went to the PTA.

We also used to have lots of events that involed collecting a certain 'length' of coins ... 2p's, 5p's, 10p's etc to go around the playground, or the school building. Each class got a box to put coins in and after a certain length of time these were counted up. There were prizes (mini choc bars etc) for the class that collected the most. Like the Smartie tube challege, these kinds of events were also good for getting the local papers in.

mistermac_2

gingernut,

how about you get the kids to provide the pta with two recipes,one sweet and one savoury.these are then made into a cookery book and sold to raise funds,plus the kids/parents etc can have fun trying out the recipes too.

Syman

this is not a problem limited to schools, i used to chair a scout group comittee and had all of the same problems. the parents saw us as a cheap alternative to baby sitters and when asked for help (only time and skills - not money) they did not want to know.

As for fundraising

we added various referral links to pur website and asked the parents to use these when buying from amazon and the like.