A to Z of Fundraising Ideas
A host of idea to help you raise funds for Nasio!
- Aerobics: If you enjoy keeping fit, or want to start, why not get people to sponsor you over a certain time?
- All-day event: Ask your local pub or sports club if they can arrange a 24-hour sponsored event such as darts, squash or bridge.
- Art competition: Everyone loves being creative, so why not charge people to be part of a competition? Maybe even try to get a local gallery involved to fund a prize.
- Babysitting: Advertise in the local community (perhaps by a community Facebook page) that you are available to babysit and put aside the money you get from this.
- Bake off: Task friends, family or colleagues to a baking competition and crown the winner as the ultimate baker. Sell slices and donate proceeds to charity.
- Bake sale: Bake cakes and sell them at your school or college or place of work. If you can, why not get in touch with the local council about setting up a stall in the middle of town?
- Barbecue: Hold a charity barbecue and charge people to come to your party.
- Call some local organisations: See if any local organisations would be willing to make a donation.
- Charge for lifts: Every time someone asks if you for a lift, ask for a donation to Nasio.
- Competition: Hold a competition at work, at home or at a club.
- Cooking club: Set up a weekly cooking club and charge a fee. On the final week do a sponsored cooking competition.
- Couch to 5k: Take up this challenge by yourself or as a team, seeking sponsorship for your first 5k run.
- Curry night: Host a dinner event, selling tickets to raise funds. Why not add a ‘hottest curry’ contest to test your limits?
- Depop sale: Got a lot of unwanted items? Challenge one another and see who can get the most money by selling on Depop.
- Disco: Organise a disco or 80’s night – with fancy dress!
- Dress down day: Ideal if you work in an office environment where your colleagues might be keen for an opportunity to work in jeans.
- Drinks night / party: If you know how to throw a party, why not do so with a small donation as an entry fee?
- Egg heads: Why not recreate this quiz show classic and charge people to take part.
- Enter events: Enter challenging events such as tough mudder or a triathlon and ask for sponsorship.
- Fancy dress car wash: Ask everyone in your street if you can wash their car – dressing up in a zany outfit makes it more fun.
- Five kilometre challenge: Run 5k and get sponsored.
- Football tournament: Create 2 teams, hype up the event with posters and then charge an entry fee to watch.
- Golf match: Organise a charity golf day.
- Grow a beard: Ask for sponsorship to grow your facial hair as long as possible.
- Hair dying: Ask for sponsorship to dye your hair a crazy colour!
- Hot dog eating competition: Charge an entry fee for brave constants to see who can devour the most hot dogs.
- Hunger challenge: Get sponsored to fast for a day or give up your favourite food for a certain amount of time.
- Ice bucket challenge: Get people to sponsor you to do this challenge.
- Ice cream: How much ice cream can you eat in a minute? Ask people to sponsor you and find out.
- Jumble sale: People love a good rummage and it’s always a good fundraiser.
- Karaoke evening: Ask a local pub to host a Karaoke night for you and charge people to get in or take part.
- Lunchtime quiz: Stimulate the mind before heading back for the afternoon slog. Get together teams and charge to take part. Maybe re create quiz classics like pointless or the chase.
- Match the pet to the owner competition: Ask your colleagues to bring in one photo of themselves and one of their pet. Charge people £1 a time to match up all the photographs.
- Murder mystery evening: Masked Ball, everyone wears a mask of his or her choice. Have a competition to guess who’s who.
- Netball tournament: Create 2 teams, hype up the event with posters and then charge an entry fee to watch.
- Obstacle course: Charge people to take part in a huge obstacle course. Ask to use a local school field or a local football pitch.
- Outdoor cinema: Get permission to use a large outdoor space and borrow some equipment such as a projector and large screen. Set up an outdoor cinema and charge for admission.
- Publicity: Send a press release to all your local papers asking for sponsorship from companies and individuals.
- Photography competition: Invite your friends to get their baby photos out and pay £1.00 a go to guess who’s who.
- Ping pong tournament: Have 2 opponents, hype up the event with posters and then charge an entry fee to watch.
- Plank challenge: Have a competition to see who can do the plank for the longest. Get people to sponsor you, or charge people to come and watch.
- Press up challenge: Set yourself and friends a fitness challenge, for example 100 press ups a day for a month, and seek sponsorship for completing the challenge.
- Quiz nights: Always a favourite whether it is at home, at work, in a club or in your local. Charge people to take part.
- Question of Sport: All you sports fanatics, make up your own questions and test your friends’ knowledge.
- Run a class: Are you a fitness fanatic? Or maybe a piano professional? Whatever you are good at, why not run some classes to share your talent and raise some money?
- Running: As a group or by your self over a certain period of time, run in kilometres the amount of money you have been sponsored. E.g. If you receive £100, run 100K between you. This could also be done with cycling.
- Snack attack: Everyone gets peckish in the middle of the morning, so hold a cake or biscuit sale.
- Shave your head: Ask to be sponsored to do this.
- Sponsored Events: Bike ride, walk, silence, swim, slim.
- Sweepstake: Run a sweepstake on the scores for the tournament that you have set up. E.g. people bet on what the score will be at the end of the football match. £1.00 to have a go.
- Theme days/nights: Jazz up the winter months and hold a themed event.
- Tik Tok competition: Create a sponsored competition to see who can get the most views on Tik Tok.
- Twenty chicken nugget challenge: Ask your friends to sponsor you to take part in a race to eat 20 chicken nuggets first, or charge people to come and watch it.
- Twenty-four-hour video game tournament: Charge people to be part of a 24-hour video game tournament, or if you think you can, ask people to sponsor you to play video games for 24 hours straight!
- University Challenge: Collect together teams who attend the same or nearby universities and hold a challenge to see which university comes top.
- Viral challenges: Get sponsored to do as many viral challenges as possible. The list of them is endless!
- Variety show: Round up your talented friends and tread the boards, charging for admission.
- Virtual games night: Charge people to take part in an online games night or quiz that you set up.
- Wine tasting: Invite an ‘expert’ or local wine dealer to bring along a few cases of wine and donate some of the proceeds to charity.
- White elephant stall: Try and see if you can set this up at a local primary school, as school fetes are usually very popular in primary schools.
- X Factor competition: Set up your own X factor competition and charge people to come and watch.
- Yoga: If you haven’t already, take up this new craze. You could run Yoga classes afterwards or learn to do the splits through Yoga and be sponsored for it.
- Yorkshire pudding eating: Aunt Bessie makes the best, see how many you can eat. Get your friends to run a sweepstake.
- Zero meat: Be sponsored to go vegetarian.
