Fundraising for World Challenge

candlegirl

Hi
I work for a party plan company and we do lots of fundraising events.
There are different ways for us to help you :-

Have a party in your own home or a venue and have a party - we can turn the commissionearned into cash for fundraising events.

We also have a candle pool (bit like the football card) it has 50 squares sell each square for £2 - once either completed or can't sell anymore squares - a winner is drawn and they win half of the kitty to spend in our catalogue and the other half goes directly to charity/club/group etc - this is quick and easy way of getting extra funds.

Any bookings from your party we will give you lovely free booking gifts which you can either raffle or do a silent auction for.

Hope this helps!

AnxiousMum

I typed out a really long response to this earlier - and my computer crashed! So here goes:

World Challenge Fundraising:

Personalised USB sticks - full colour school logo on one side, student's name on the other. Sold for £12 each, sold 380 and raised around £2,000. Perfect time for sending out order forms is when the new year 7's letters of acceptance are being sent out - enclose an order form with a deadline date - they WILL order - as the parents are so happy their child is starting there. The new parents will almost think it's school issued and required. The Year 13's are also still in the school - and would love a memory stick with their school's name on it to take to University with them

Hold a school disco - must have parents to help though - we sell 300 tickets max at £3.00 each. We hire two security guards for outside the school door at £110 for the evening, and a great dj for £110. 7:00 - 9:45, Years 7, 8 and 9, about five parent helpers required - or sixth form students - to ensure no blockage of fire exits etc., and to sell sweets/drinks. The door always is profit - selling sweets and squash always pays for the security and the dj, and some leftover profit. We hold them in the school gym. Usually raise in the region of £900 - but fluctuates from £800 - 1000

We are holding boot fairs on the school rugby pitches in the summer (NOT the cricket pitches) charging £10 per vehicle/seller, and charging a 50p admission for adult buyers. The charge for admission disappears as the day goes on. We are doing refreshments, no other refreshment stall holders allowed. One table selling freshly made crepes and strawberries and cream for £2....profit about £1.60 per crepe sold. Coffee/tea - well, that's pretty much pure profit costing only a few pennies and then the cup. Sausages/bacon butties/hamburgers - someone must be in possession of a food handling certificate - and they must be cooked and sold under cover. We use the pta's barbecues, and one I bring in from home with a side burner for the crepes. We sell various drinks that have been picked up at cash and carries.

At drama/music events at the school - let the pta or whoever do the bar for the adults, but see if you can do the non alcoholic bar. J20's go down a treat - and at 9.99 for 24 of them at the cash and carry (bookers/makro) you sell them for £1.00 each - great bargain for the drinker, and great profit maker for you. Also we sell cups of coke, lemonade etc. from 2 litre bottles - at 50p per cup, we make at least a pound per bottle.

Work wise - I sell alot of 'hoodies' to students - we mainly do leavers hoodies and yearbooks etc., but the hoodies have been used as well as polo shirts as a fundraiser. The students usually have their school logo on the front (embroidered in full colour) and then a screenprinted saying on the back - it's usually something that's to do with current goings on at the school - becoming an academy, new headteacher, to remember a great football season or something. Hoodies we sell for £16, you can sell them for £20 - great quality - sell 100 and you've made 400 - not hard to do in a school of 900-1200 students!

I always tend to look at the big picture - you have 20 people that want to raise £3,000 each - car washes are great - but there's an awful lot of them to be done to raise the money needed, especially if you're splitting the proceeds with the whole group of students.

Hope some of these ideas help!

AnxiousMum

Doubtful wrote: »

Sorry guys not been on for a while as computer blew up! Anyway thanks for the replies, but this is now off, unfortunately there was not enough interest at his school, only 5 pupils turned up for the first meeting! Anwyay I'm sure he will have other opportunities in the future.

That's too bad - but.......because there's only five from his school, doesn't have to get cancelled entirely. Alot of groups start out with 20 or so interested, and dwindles down to five or six. The company you are dealing with SHOULD be able to match the students up with another local school - and get the two schools working together. Many companies do this - as it's absolutely normal for this to happen.

gui

hey everyone i just joined the twiter page from world chalenge and i thought of puting some stuf here even though i live in Portugal.
believe it or not i was informed of world chalenge last october... at the time it was just an idea in our school but soon went masive. we had 6 parents at the first meeting and 6 was the minimum nº. then i went to a second meting were 2 people had given up... we were lucky to find one more person. then we invited a teacher and we had 6... at the time we knew we were going to poland but we didnt know when. in late october they told us it whould be in july and that we were dealing with almost 2000€... at the time i thought "oh poo, im not going to make all that money in 9 months for shure". now we are only 38 days away from leaving and i have fundraised 865€ in less than 7 months. belive it or not im not shure how i did it but im still having some trouble. i asked my dad to pay the expadition with his money fore the amount i dont have yet and i have to pay him the full money back by the end of 2010. anyway besides my wiked story, i also wanted to coment on my fundrasing... i did the following: i started with a few easy stuf like cleaning dishes at home, lawning the lawn, lawning the friends and neburs lawn but i was only at the beguining. then i started wasing cars. in 5 days i made 120€... now after a few generous givings from friends and family i had saved about 300€. then i started working for people and helping with homework in junior school as well as reading in a small comunity center in oeiras (Portugal) right after that i rented my bikes to frinds and made a robotics show where all my 7 NXT's (lego robots from my robotics teacher who kindly lented them) did chores with a simple tap of a boten. finaly my last fundrasing activity from a few months ago was a "get yourself photoshoped" i mounted a green screen at every lunch time for 5 days with a camera, then people paid 3€ to take a picture and i whould do what ever they wanted on photoshop. mostly geting a backgrond for example a picture of them next to the british queen.
anyway that how i got my money and i hope it helps anyone else who needs help, weather if with world chalenge or not.:beer:
thankyou
Gui
ps: greetings from Portugal!!!;)

cccharlotte

AnxiousMum wrote: »

Personalised USB sticks - full colour school logo on one side, student's name on the other. Sold for £12 each, sold 380 and raised around £2,000. Perfect time for sending out order forms is when the new year 7's letters of acceptance are being sent out - enclose an order form with a deadline date - they WILL order - as the parents are so happy their child is starting there. The new parents will almost think it's school issued and required. The Year 13's are also still in the school - and would love a memory stick with their school's name on it to take to University with them

Can you please sencd me a link to the site where you cdicd this, or explain how you did this? I am going to Tanzania on Worlcd Challenge ancd think it's a brilliant icdea ancd wouldc really boost my funding. please get back to me 'AnxiousMum'

(joinecd this forum just to get your response )

fengirl_2

Maybe then everyone could contribute to my summer holiday this year. What a cheek to expect people to subsidise your adventure holiday!

NeverInDebt

Yes agreed. Wish I could afford a holiday

Hang on I set a begging web site and post later

Paypal ready

fengirl wrote: »

Maybe then everyone could contribute to my summer holiday this year. What a cheek to expect people to subsidise your adventure holiday!

nicolelouise

I'm 15 and currently raising money to go to Madgascar next year. I found the most successful was to raise money was by holding a easter raffle. Obviously, if you don't want to wait until next easter to do one, you could always do a wine raffle if you get permission in your local pub and ask poeple to donate th wine. I did the raffle with easter eggs, i spent around £40 and made £300. It went really good, especially when the pub gets busy, once one person has a go, everyone does.

mickeymiller

First of all, congrats on getting your fundraising started! Raising support for a worthy cause can be super rewarding. But obviously, if you're not an official non-profit, it can be really tricky finding a good way to build support for your cause.

One route you might want to consider: setting up a homepage for your group on a fundraising website. Having a group homepage online makes organizing and fundraising infinitely easier ... And though the majority of fundraising sites require you have official non-profit status, many good ones only require that you are a group - and will give you plenty of the tools you need.

For example, one good site is Meet Up (meetup.com), who allow you to fundraise directly to your account, and register a group without having an official non-profit status - and they cover groups around the world, while giving you some tools to do event management. But the tools they offer are a little limited outside of fundraising.

Another good option would be Empowered.org (empowered.org), a platform that also helps small groups fundraise and organize (regardless of non-profit status). They also work for international groups - and offer a fair amount of useful tools, like the ability to organize your group or to create volunteer activities and fundraising campaigns for more targeted ways to raise support.

Or you could always try to send up your own PayPal account to link to you directly to help you fundraise, but this is a little trickier and a bit inflexible.

Good luck getting started moving forward! Hope that helped.