Any Fundraising Ideas for Pre-schools?

Question

Hello

I am The secretary for a pre-school in Northern Ireland. We need Ideas for Fundraising other than, Bake sale, Raffle Tickets and Discos!! I have thought of Calanders but would need a really good and cheap way of getting them first. Then I saw a web site for Tea Towels..

But does any one know of companies who help in fundrasing or do you yourself have any Good and Refreshing ideas?

Thanks for Listining!! And For Your Help!

Becky

Answer 1

have you thought about the kids come to school in fancy dress and they just have to pay a small donation. also have you thought about letting the children take a sealed container ( like a money box) and if they do certain chores for their family and friends like help tidy bedroom or help dad clean the car, then the person who they help put a small donation into the container.

When my son went to Nursery, he had a Smarties tube to take home and put 20p pieces in. It was surprising how much they raised as a smarties tube held £8 of 20ps. Also it helped my son learn that helping other people is very rewarding.

Answer 2

We recently carried out a sponsored bounce on a small trampoline. Our room of 24 children raised over £500.

We also once did a quiz, which we sold for a £1 each and we raised loads.

Answer 3

cake walk

Answer 4

weve found a Tombola a good way of raising money especially if you can get parents to donate prizes.

Answer 5

I used to be the director of a child care center and we did lots of fundraisers.  Most of them were the typical stuff like you said (bake sale, raffles, and stuff).  But there are tons of fundraising companies that you just call up.  The kids try to sell the items and they earn prizes based on how much they sell.  Your school earns a certain percentage as a profit.  I don't live in Ireland so I don't know of any companies over there, but I'm sure a quick google search of "fundraising companies" will do the trick.  But here are some other ideas I've done that have worked really well.  They both take some planning and a lot of help from your staff.

Flea Market:

This earned us a lot of money every year, but takes a lot of planning.  We had a flea market.  We just held in our parking lot.  We advertised to the public.  If they wanted to sell stuff at the flea market they had to puchase a "spot".  They could also rent a table from us.  We also sold our own items donated by staff and students (plus we got to keep all of those profits.)  The flea market included games, contests, and raffles.  These activities were run by staff memebers on a volunteer basis.  We had things like face painting, cake walks, carnival type games, moon bounces (that we rented), and other stuff.  Each activity cost a certain amount of "tickets" for people to participate in.  They had to buy the tickets.  We also had a bake sale at the flea market.  So we made a lot of money selling the flea market "spaces," our own donated flea market items to sell, the tickets, and the bake sale.  Plus, since it was in our parking lot and open to the whole community it was an excellent way to advertise.

Movie Night:

This one takes a lot of effort from the staff.  Once a month on a friday night we offered a dinner and movie night for students and their siblings (as long as they are potty trained).  The parents could have a date night while their kids stayed at the day care center.  We would show a movie or two using one of those LCD projector machines.  We just put some huge white sheets on the wall and projected the movie onto to wall so it was like they were in a theater.  The kids were allowed to come in PJs and bring pillows and sleeping bags and everyone just spread out on the floor.  We did a cheap dinner of hotdogs and french fries (something easy to cook in mass quanitites and quickly.)    The night would last 3-4 hours and the parents would pay for their kids to come.  We made sure the cost was cheaper than hiring a babysitter, but still helped us make a profit.  We would do that once a month for the year.  It made us a lot of money, but the staff did have to sacrifice part of their Friday night once a month.  If you have a large staff, they could take turns so they only had to do it a few times a year.  But with that money we were able to pay for the entire staff to go to an educational conference.  It was definately worth it.

Answer 6

Hi, at the school where my niece's go to they hold bring and buy sales. They raise good sums of money.

Answer 7

Have a look at this website - lots of good ideas / possible inspiration! www.allmyownwork.co.uk/

Answer 8

u can try looking at http://www.fundraising-ideas.org/DIY/ind... http://www.fundraiserhelp.com/, or have a carnival and see orientaltrading.com for things you can buy in bulk at a fair price to use as prizes , bingo,  or maybe a cake walk.

Answer 9

Hi am not sure about Northern Ireland but in UK Body shop were excellent at giving away stuff for charity,you could also hire tables out for people to do their own selling.. some schools charge up to £15 a table.

throw wet sponges at teachers, penalty shoot out,ask people to donate bottles of drinks and food cans like tombola,

Answer 10

Have parents submit a receipe and make a school cookbook, and then sell them.  

Or check out the following websites for ideas... good luck!

http://www.fundraising-ideas.org/orgs/pr...

http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/fundid...

http://www.wowfundraising.com/preschools...

Answer 11

Why not auction off a small boy?  After the buyer has had him a day, they will pay you to take him back.  It's a win / win situation.

Can't do that?  What about a Cutest Boy and Prettiest Girl contest, with glass jars with children's pictures?  I assume you have nice photos of all your kids.  Folks vote by placing coins in the jars.  Seen that before, yes, BUT...  There is a special rule.  Coins count for a candidate, but paper currency counts against them!  So you can't win the contest by dropping twenty pounds in one jar.  You'd have to put five-pound notes in lots of jars, and that would add up.

I would do this as a part of another event so that folks wouldn't be there with socks full of coins.

You may prefer boxes to jars, so that no parents were offended by their child receiving too few votes.

Answer 12

you could have sort of like a fete. pay a fee per person to get in, and you could even get the parents to set up stalls and give all proceeding to you. with this then you would be able to go with the less origional ideas because there would be more of a choice such as:

fancy dress competions

games to play

bouncy castle/trampoline

bake sale

bring and buy sale

person to collect the most money in a tub wins a prize

guess how many ... in the jar etc.

also, when someone said to auction off people, they had a point, but not children. auctioning off volunteers for the cause and staff for say five hours as slaves, or dates or whatever.

i hoped this helped a bit.

Answer 13

get them or there parents to sell some chocolate like our school did. We sold Worlds finest chocolate and the school made a good amount off of it !

Answer 14

sale one or two of the kids. some childless couples would pay good money for one