How to organise a jumble sale

lil_lady_2

Hi ,

I am new chair of are Schools PTA and im pretty new to the PTA as well .

This year I was hoping to do a jumble sale in are hall at the same time as are summer fair ( as for we normally sell second hand goods in there any way)

1. do I ask people to donate items ?

2. Do I rent out tables to outside traders / people who want to sell there unwanted goods?

The reason why I was wanting to do a jumble sale instead of the school children donating goods is that we have to ask for them weekly in the run up to the fair and I was thinking with a jumble sale I could just ask for a certain date and time for drop off rather then having to get people to help every week for over a month .

Thank you

brownhandbag

I do a village jumble sale once a year and we advertise locally, paper/radio etc. We have about 10 of us helping and all put the word out and collect what we can. We also open the hall for a couple of hours the evening before so people can drop stuff off while we set it all out ready.

Just ask anyone for donations, people are usually helpful.

On the day we charge 20p admission adults only/kids free and have a mad hour selling. Then another hour packing up, we take to tip/charity shops/other jumbles. Usually raise between £150 and £300 for little work and great fun.

We do tea/coffee too.
Personally I would keep car boot sellers to a separate event/day

Good luck with your event!

Obviously_the_best

At my kids PTA they used to pay 50p per kilo of donations, although a lot of people would just donate without wanting anything back for it.

RFW

lil_lady wrote: »

2. Do I rent out tables to outside traders / people who want to sell there unwanted goods?

Unless it's a very tiny school I'd say to stick with parents to start with, that way they're more likely to turn up on the day and will be less likely to cause any problems.