Get Involved
Fundraising A to Z
Here are some ideas to help get you on your way.
A
- Abseil
- Antiques fair and invite in local experts to hold valuations
- Auction of promises or hold a local auction
- Art exhibition gather local talent to pool their paintings and donate a percentage to the Appeal
B
- Boot fair
- Bad hair or tie day at work
- Bring and buy sale
- Barbeque
- Barn dance
- Bike ride to local villages
C
- Car wash
- Card sale
- Clay pigeon shooting contest
- Coffee morning
- Cookery competition
- Concert or choir competitions
- Collections at school events, services
D
- Dinner party - hold a dinner party and charge your friends
- Dress down or dress up day at work
- Drawing competition in your local school or community group
- Dance marathon
- Dinner dance
- Duck race at a local pond or even put them on wheels
E
- Easter Fair
- Enterprise - encourage young people to donate takings from enterprise activities to the appeal
- Egg throwing/rolling competition
F
- Family fun days in the local park or at a local attraction
- Face painting
- Fancy dress competition
- Fashion show- using clothes designed by young people or link with a local clothing store
- Football tournament
- Foreign coins - old obsolete foreign coins and notes still have a value to the appeal
- Flower arranging evening
G
- Golf tournament
- Gift boxes
- Gigs - get your local bands together
H
- Hawaian evening
- Halloween party
- Hair braiding/beading
I
- Its a knockout competition
- Italian evening
- Ice cream eating contests
J
- Jumble sale
K
- Kite flying afternoon
- Karaoke evening
L
- Line of coins
- Line dancing evening
- Litter picking
- Lunch club
M
- Midsummer Ball
- Medieval banquet
- Murder mystery evening
- Mufti or non-uniform day
N
- New Years eve party
- Name the teddy/doll
- Non-uniform day at work or school
O
- Outward bound day
- Orienteering contest
- Old time music hall evening
- Odd jobs
- Outgrown clothes stalls
- Old English coins - obsolete English coins and notes still have
a value to the appeal
P
- Pancake tossing competition
- Photo competition
- Parachute jump
- Pet show
- Penalty shoot out
- Pram push
- Penny mile
Q
- Quiz night
R
- Recycle your old mobiles or printer cartridges
- Readathon
- Raffle
- Running events eg. organise a local 5k run
S
- Sponsored activity such as a swim, walk or silence!
- Stamps - send us your used stamps
T
- Talent competition
- Tad dance
- Teddy Bear's picnic
- Treasure hunt
U
- University challenge
- Uniform day - make your teachers wear school uniform!
V
- Valentines disco
W
- Wine & Wisdom evening
- Wine tasting
- Who's that baby
- Welly throwing competiton
X
- X Factor style competition
- X-Change books, toys or dvds
Y
- Yard of ale competition
- Yo-yo competition
- Yard/Garage sale
Z
- Zzzzzzz - sponsored sleepover or pyjama party
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A Day in the Life
Photographic exhibition captures daily cathedral life
