PTA/School fundraising that doesn't cost anything?

little_lil

We ask parents to donate good quality school uniform that thier child has grown out of and then hold a monthly sale.

Last time we made £40 and this was pure profit. Also a cake stall is a really good idea cause your parents donate the cakes and then you sell them back to the parents :rotfl: last time we nearly had them fighting over the chocolate cake :eek: . I think both of these are so popular cause the parents want or need the items and don't come along just cause they feel obliged.

If this is the sort of thing you are after i can come up with some more examples as we hold these monthly sales each with a different "theme" and all have been a sucess.

Frugal_Fox

Our school do printer cartridge recycling - could look into it if anyone was interested. Just PM me.

Rachel021967

My daughter's old school made money on name tags. The school is given a code and some order forms with their code on. The parents wanting the name tags fill in the form and send it with the payment to the manufacturer. The manufacturer then posts the name tags to the parents and the school get a percentage of the payment. Cash's have a scheme but my daughter's old school use somebody different. I can find out more later today.
Another idea is a Christmas raffle hamper. The parents donate an item for the hamper. The hampers are then made up and raffle tickets are sold.
How about a silent auction?

earthmother

Thanks - some good ideas there


Just did a quick google on the can recycling - apparently the average rate is about 40p per kilo, so it may be worth looking into, however, there will be the storage and transportation issue.


We already sell old uniform and home baking at the two fetes, but hadn't thought of doing them as separate issues, so again, something worth looking into.


And the name tags is definitely worth a look - the Head's induction speech for new intake parents always includes a bit about the importance of labelling, and she recommends woven sew-ins rather than writing or ironing on (wears better), so I'd be interested to know who your school uses.


And the raffle hamper again sounds a good idea - could start it off at the Christmas fete

Rachel021967

My daughter's old school uses Clipper Woven Labels. 12 Waddington Street,
Durham City DH1 4BG Tel: 0870 7454853. E mail: sales@clipperwovenlabels.co.uk Web: https://www.clipperwovenlabels.co.uk

Also the PTFA belong to a site where if you click and buy on the internet shops through the PTFA site the school receives a percentage of the sales. I don't know how to go about it but if you go onto the charities board somebody there might be able to help.

glovejam

Bag2School worked really well for us. We have 400 pupils (nursery to Senior) and we raised £360 the first time we did it. We are just awaiting our latest collection figure.

weemissy

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our school needed new books for their library, so we asked parents to sponser a book (just giving a donation), on the back of the new books are stickers saying for example - 'this book was kindly donated by the Smith family', we raise £600!

filigree_2

One scheme that worked well for us was to approach local estate agents. They will put up advertising boards outside pupils homes, something like this:

BLOGGS ESTATE AGENT

Grange Hill PTA Christmas Fayre 15th December 2007

We had to persuade at least 25 families to take part and received £40 for each board. £1000

It's quite a popular scheme round here and lots of schools and estate agents take part.

earthmother

Thank you all for your ideas - lots to take to the next meeting in a couple of weeks time.



Just out of interest, for those actually on the PTA, how do you keep yourselves in the parents minds, and attract new members?

We have a very good PTA that struggles for lack of bodies at many events - there is so much more we could do if there were the manpower.

mrcow

earthmother wrote: »

Just out of interest, for those actually on the PTA, how do you keep yourselves in the parents minds, and attract new members?

We have a very good PTA that struggles for lack of bodies at many events - there is so much more we could do if there were the manpower.

We struggle too.

We have coffee mornings twice a year to invite new parents along and have a monthly newsletter that goes out to everyone. The rest is mainly just chatting to parents and trying to drum up support.

I do a fair bit of charity work for various organiations, and unfortunately, it's always the same old faces that seem willing to lend a hand/put themselves out.