Schools 

Schools’ fundraising is extremely valuable to us. There are endless ways that schools can get involved that are both fun and educative for pupils. If you choose to support us, whether as a one-off or as your school’s charity of the year, we’ll be delighted to support you, in terms of advice, ideas and resources. We can also supply teddies and stickers as prizes for the children.

Ways of supporting
If you choose to support us, you may prefer to concentrate all your fundraising activities into one week.  For example, a typical week of fundraising could include: cake sales and tombolas at morning breaks, a different event on stage every lunchtime (such as a talent contest, fashion show, gospel choir performance or a fancy dress competition) and sponsored sport events in the afternoons.

Or you might prefer to undertake a series of events over the course of the year. This could involve seasonal events such as an Easter egg hunt, a fun run, a SIDS sports day, a summer fashion show, a bonfire party, and a carol concert.

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School Fundraising ideas:

International day
Pay £1 to dress in clothes from a different culture. Bring in a different national dish and sell portions of it. A prize for the best national costume.

Fancy dress to school
Dress as a character from a book, film or poem. Come as an animal, an alien or a superhero.

Teacher in Uniform
Sponsor your teacher to wear your uniform while you pay £1 to come in your own clothes!

Read-athon
Read as many books as you can in a month. Get sponsored for each book you read.

Bring and Buy sale
Sell on books, CDs, clothes and cakes and buy new ones!

Sports day
Organise a day full of your favourite races. Get sponsored or pay 50p to race.

Sponsored Swim
How many lengths can you do for charity? Race your friends!

Treasure hunt
Pay 50p to follow the trail of prizes. Make your own map and clues for your classmates.

Talent contest
Do you want to be the next Joss Stone or Coldplay? Sing a song, dance a dance or read a poem. Prize for the most talented.

Book of stories
Write a story, poem or paint a picture. Your teacher will print them into a book which can be sold to friends and family. The proceeds will come to us.

School memorabilia
Have a drawing competition. Pay 50p to enter your drawing. The best will be printed on t-shirts to be sold to friends and family.

Auction of promises
Someone pays for you to water their garden or buy their paper every day.

Carol sing-athon
Get sponsored to sing carols non-stop for 3 hours!

Disco
Hold a disco for all your friends of all your favourite music. Pay £1 to attend. Sell soft drinks and biscuits.

Sponsored silence
How long can you keep schtum and give your teacher a rest? 1 hour, 2 or 3? It’s harder than you think!

Football tournament
Beckham and Rooney eat your heart out. Organise an inter-year football tournament.

Mastermind quiz
Pay £1 to enter a general knowledge quiz. The winner gets the trophy for a year.

Fashion show
Strut your stuff for SIDS. Pay £1 to enter and charge people to come and watch. Why don’t you even make up a group dance for the catwalk?

Teachers’ baby photos contest
Were they ever young too? Get all your teachers to bring in pictures of themselves as babies. You pay 50p to guess who is who. All correct answers are put into a hat and a winner is drawn out.

Student v staff play off
Compete for the benefit of others. Choose a sport -- volleyball, basketball, etc., -- and invite the rest of your school as well as parents to watch and cheer. Sell tickets or charge admission at the door.

Art Attack
Hold an art contest where you and your friends enter up to three pieces of art at £5 per entry. Try to get a local gallery owner to donate space for the event and recruit some judges. You could sell the artwork and donate a portion of the proceeds to FSID

Poetry Cafe
Hold a poetry reading in your favourite cafe. Get students or family members to volunteer to read their own or others’ poems. Pass the hat and ask diners to contribute. Try to get local news coverage for your event --- this will also appeal to the restaurant owner who gets free advertising!

Seasonal Celebration
Hold a seasonal pot-luck dinner. For instance, in autumn ask participants to bring a seasonal dish. Eat outside under autumn trees. Organize simple games and activities to attract children to the event - leaf rubbings, scavenger hunts, story-telling, autumn poetry readings, etc. Charge admission.

Christmas cards
Make your own cards, have them printed. Proceeds to us.

Classroom decor
Transform your classroom into a completely different place – a jungle or a palace. Pay a fee to come to school dressed in the style of that particular theme.

Spelling tests
Look through the dictionary and come up with a list of difficult and complicated words to test yourself and others on. You could give your test a theme. For example, you can learn words to do with science and health care. Each participant pays a fee to take part.

Make a snake
Mark out a long wiggly line 30 metres long in your classroom, and get everyone to donate their 2p pieces to complete the money snake.