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What stalls do you have at your local fete?

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  • Not sure about best beer deals, but you could perhaps raffle a barrow (or other suitable container) of mixed alcoholic donations, rather than the traditional bottle stall (tombola). The trouble with most school tombolas is that the vast majority of the prizes are only worth about the ticket price or less, which isn't really hugely appealing, but some people will still have a go in the hope of winning the one decent prize (bottle of vodka or whatever), and if they end up with a tin of beans instead they're not as disappointed as if they'd won nothing at all!
    Cake and candy is always popular, with home-made tablet a big seller.
    Toy and book stalls are also expected, and again, goods are donated so no expense involved.
    If you're having a darts stall, be very careful about offering cash or other costly prizes: you might end up with the dilemma of being a spoilsport by limiting the number of shots any one person can have, or paying out repeatedly to someone who's unusually good at it.
  • Timmne
    Timmne Posts: 2,555 Forumite
    Balloon races are an excellent earner and loads of fun for the kiddies too.

    You can make your own labels and give a prize for the furthest travelled (i.e. the label that gets sent back to you from the furthest address) - say a tenner. The person that sends it back also gets a reward.

    Not sure how much the helium costs but you can sell these balloons for a quid or two each and it's a great attraction!
  • Pick a stick.
    Two plastic trays filled with sand. Paint only a few lolly sticks red, the rest leave white. They get the lolly plus a small prize like a bubble tub if they win.
    If they don't they get just the lolly.
    85p-1.00 a go.
  • jembie
    jembie Posts: 936 Forumite
    Cake stall
    Curry stall
    bric-a-brac stall
    book stall
    cans & jars stall
    hook a bag stall (Gift bags with small prizes in and use a broom handle to "hook" them)
    dress up and have a photo taken
    penalty shoot outs
    any crafty type things ie. make your own bookmark (Cut strips of coloured paper and the kids pay 50p to decorate it)
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  • toy stalls are always good to get the money in and the people. A plant stall would be good aswell.
  • moo2moo
    moo2moo Posts: 4,694 Forumite
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    Wheel of fortune. Circle of card with 8 differently coloured numbered segments. Sell each segment at £1. Spin the wheel. Holder of the winning number gets a prize and you make £8 per spin of the wheel.

    Coconut shies make loads of money. Phone round and find somewhere to borrow one from or someone to make one. We use builders mesh screens as a safety cage round the poles. 25 coconuts £8 from a fruit and veg wholesaler. Left over coconuts sell at £1 each to those not lucky enough to win one.

    BBQs and beer are also great combinations and for kids it has to be a bouncy castle.

    Baker Ross sell giant punching balloons at 50 for £15. Put in a some rice before blowing up and they make a great noise. Sell on at £1 each or use as prizes.

    Wilkinsons sell bottles of bubble mix for 25p also great for prizes.

    Coloured hairspray is also fantastic and very quick to do. £1.49 a can from Wilkinsons. We bought 15 cans and ran out after 90 minutes charging £1 a time.

    Tombollas are good too. Make life easy for yourself. Make a large grid with numbers in multiples of 5 from 1-100. Place your prizes on the grid. Number plastic milk bottle tops from 1-100 and place in a bucket. The odds never change and you can keep adding prizes for as long as you can find things to put on the grid.

    Ice cream cones - cones on 3 for £2 at Tesco so 63 cones for £2. Value ice cream 75p per tub. Sell each cone at 50p.

    Generally if your prices are low enough people will have 2 or 3 goes, once you top 50p it puts people off.

    Selling raffle tickets prior to the event also works well. £30 to register with your local authority. Ticket printing is not cheap but from past experience if we sell raffle tickets on the day we're lucky to raise £150. By selling them prior to the event this increased to over £1000.

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  • nickj_2
    nickj_2 Posts: 7,052 Forumite
    get a ladder and put a card with points in between each rung - the further away the more points you get
    used toy stall always does well , parents are always keen to get rid of unused toys -
    we get cambridge utd to come to our fetes with their speed camera goal - £1 a go x 3 shots to see who has the fastest shot - dads love it -
    if you've got good ground , pin a £5 - £10 - £20 to the grass and get a golf putter , if the ball stops directly on the chash they keep the prize .
    also a crockery smash is v popular
  • mummyto3_2
    mummyto3_2 Posts: 74 Forumite
    http://www.braishfieldfayre.com/index.html

    This is the fayre I am helping organise, the things that take the most money are the bar and BBQ. Tug of war is good especially if you can get the local pubs to bring a team as they spend on the bar.
  • stilernin
    stilernin Posts: 1,217 Forumite
    Human fruit machine............. the parents love it just for the humour factor.

    You might get the local fruit and veg shop to sponsor a large advert on it too.
  • nickj_2
    nickj_2 Posts: 7,052 Forumite
    a 100 board - make a board with 100 squares , sell each square for a £1
    give £50 prize for winning square
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