Fundraising Ideas
60 Fun Fundraising Ideas
Thank you for supporting our fundraising to help enhance patient care at Bradford Teaching
Hospitals. To get you started, here is a list of fun fundraising ideas that will suit young
children, individuals, families, community groups and businesses. We hope you enjoy
fundraising for our hospitals and most importantly, make sure your event involves a lot of
fun!
For Children
1. Fill your Smartie tubes: collect a Smartie tube full of £1 coins
2. Fairy and pirate toddle
3. Used toy sale
4. Dress up/dress down day
5. Wear your pyjamas all day
6. Fairies and goblins football match
7. Story telling marathon
8. Readathon – ideal for primary schools, get sponsored for every book you read
9. Fairy cake bake
10. Spelling Bee/Timetables
11. Treasure Hunt
12. Get creative – produce your own masterpieces and auction them off at a fun evening
event
13. Sponsored 1 mile run, 2 mile walk, or 4 mile cycle race
14. Sponsored Ten Pin Bowling tournament
15. Christmas Pledge poster (instead of sending Christmas cards, write festive messages
on a poster)
For Businesses
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Talent show
Music Quiz
Dress up/Dress down day
Annual Event: dance/fireworks/New Year party
Art sale/Auction with wine tastings
Murder Mystery evening
Balls and Dances – mid-summer/Valentine’s Day/Christmas
Sponsored Jail break
Bradford Hospitals Charity Bradford Royal Infirmary Duckworth Lane Bradford BD9 6RJ
Charity@bthft.nhs.uk 01274 36 4809
www.bradfordhopsitals.nhs.uk
Author: Hayley Collis October 2014
9. Race Evening
10. Golf event
11. Guess the Baby competition
12. Christmas Fayre/Christmas card and calendar sales
13. Football Match/Tournament
14. Celebrity Speaker event
15. Sponsored It’s a Knockout
(Ask your employer about match-funding too – you could double your fundraising efforts!)
For Individuals and Families
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Charity stall for sale of second hand goods
70’s/80’s/Disco
Film Premiere: show a film and ask for donations rather than charge a fee
Quit it: give up drinking/smoking/chocolate for a week/month/etc
Annual subscription/membership or regular gift through Pennies from Heaven or
JustGiving
6. Bingo Night
7. Bucket or street collections outside stores and in shopping centres
8. Car Boot sales
9. Get fit with Walking/Swimming/Running Challenge Events
10. Clothes Swap
11. Parachute Jump
12. Welly Throwing competition
13. Spring clean your wardrobe and sell on eBay
14. Beetle Drive
15. Coffee morning/Afternoon tea party
Community Group
1. Spring/Christmas Flowers & Hanging Baskets – demonstration and plant sale
2. International Evenings – themed evenings, Italian, Indian, Australian etc
3. Flower arranging demonstration
4. Gardening or cooking demonstration
5. Strawberry & Cream Tea party at Wimbledon time
6. Country Walk or Ramble
7. Easter Egg Hunt
8. Mystery Tour/Trip
9. Firework Display
10. Open Garden Events
11. 100 Club: Invite 100 people you know to make a £10/£50/£100 donation
12. Pancake Day party
13. Come Dine with Me
14. Pub Tournaments e.g. dart, pool, cards
15. Poetry Competition
Bradford Hospitals Charity Bradford Royal Infirmary Duckworth Lane Bradford BD9 6RJ
Charity@bthft.nhs.uk 01274 36 4809
www.bradfordhopsitals.nhs.uk
Author: Hayley Collis October 2014