I need some fundraising ideas for my sons pre school can anyone help?

Question

I need some fundraising ideas for my sons pre school can anyone help?

Answer 1

The following have been very successful in my pre-school over the last year;

Name the Teddy

Buy a teddy for approx £5. Print off a list of 50-60 potential names.People buy a name for £1 and then drawn like a raffle. The winner gets the bear.

Race Night

Takes a bit of organising, but ours raised over £600. See www.race-night.co.uk for more details

Jam Jars

Get people to fill empty jars with items. eg. sweets, toys, hair accessories, toiletries etc. Then sell as a tombola. We raised £95

Photographs

Take pics of the children, then sell for £1 each.

Good luck

Answer 2

A photographer, We do this and make 15 % back on the sales made.  Most photographers will do packages for a pre-school and nowadays parents can have a choice of prints due to digital technology.

Answer 3

a fete is the most common charge £1 a go for 5mins on a bouncy castle and the same for entry,now the summers coming maybe do

bbq and charge for food etc,a sponsered walk with buggys,prams etc or eeven a run or a cycle,an egghunt be good for this weekend.fill a jar with jelly beans and pay to guess the amount who gets the right one or closest wins,name the bear,sponge the teachers.

Answer 4

How about a community yard sale? Everyone donates items from their homes to sell at the yard sale and have refreshments/food for sale at the event too.

Answer 5

Have a look at this website for more ideas.

http://www.childline.org.uk/AtoZoffundra...

Answer 6

If you go to www.rkeclectics.com, I believe they give a  40 or 50% commission to fundraisers for selling their products via their catalog.  They even ship the products directly to the customers.  Just use the email contact info on the main page.  Something like that can make a lot more money than a bake sale.

Answer 7

a bake sale or and gARAGE SALE

Answer 8

One that is great is have a night at Chuck E. Cheese.   You coordinate a two hour block on a specific day or evening.  They give you materials to give out at the preschool and then 15% of the sales go to your school. It's great because the kids love it, they get to have fun, and you make money easy.  

You can also check a lot of other restaurants who offer programs like that.

I highly recommend this program.

Answer 9

u should make things that are good looking and sell them cheap or you can make a raffael.

Answer 10

have you tried a bake sale??

Answer 11

Buy some of that Bake-At-Home clay and have the kids make little pottery trinkets like turtles and what not. Then have them paint them and sell them. Most likely the elderly would take advantage of this the most.

Answer 12

cake sale is always good, cheap and easy; if its something small your wanting to do.

Answer 13

we've done a cookbook, (there are companies that will do this as a fundraising project) bake sale, kids art (there are companies too for this)

silent auction, kids movie night, families pay a small fee, come in their jammies and have pizza and a movie on the big screen in our gym.(it's always a hit)

Ice cream social, we had a photographer come and take family portraits...

good luck!

Answer 14

candy is always an easy one. or how about interactive group baking, lemonade stand, or could you auction off children's art?  that's always a decent money maker :)  not to mention it gets the children directly involved and helps foster creativity!

Answer 15

I do a lot of fundraising for my childs school, you could have a raffle, write to local companies and ask them to donate a prize for your raffle, you could do a summer fair and have various stalls for example toy, tea/coffee, bouncy castle etc.  Did you also know that the major banks do a pound for pond scheme that is if an employer helps out at one of your fund raising events then the bank will match what they raise we did that at our last years summer fair and barcleys donated 2250, each employee can raise a maximum of 750 at any one time, and they can do this three times a year so all you have to do is send a letter out to the parents asking if they know of anyone who works at barcleys/halifax etc and if they do would they be able to help out with a stall or selling raffle tickets etc and then you fill in some easy paperwork and they match what you earn.  You can also write to the manufactures as sometimes you can cut out the shops and go direct to their suppliers.  We also have a big BBQ which raises over 1000 and everything is donated, you write letters to hotels, cafes etc and ask them to donate the burgers, sausages and bread.  Coke donates crates of pop, foxes biscuits donate tea packs. good luck.

Answer 16

I don't meant to be quick but I'm in a hurry and wanted to provide you with a short list. If your question is still posted later, I'll give you some more ideas.

==Entertainment books are big money makers--at least for all of the schools I've seen sell them. You can get for any place in the state maybe the country. Families love them.

==Sees candies.

==Penny Drive or "spare change"

==Bake or Coffee Sale

==Innisbrook (wrapping paper)

Hope these get you started. I have a website for fundraising ideas but I'm not at home. I'll try to post later. In the meantime, go to the school district website in your area and look at the elementary school websites for other ideas. All schools do fundraising and that's where I go for new ideas. For example, I live in San Diego so I went to the San Diego Unified School District website and found all of the schools in San Diego. I checked each school to see if they had a website and then I checked their website for the types of fundraisers they did. I got a lot of great ideas of course I can't remember them now.

Have fun!

Answer 17

prostitution (depends what you look like ) or drug dealing will get you loads of money

Answer 18

You have quite a few good ideas here (bake & garage sale, candy, and Entertainment books) and I hope that you can draw ideas from these if you can't really use all of them.  

You could buy things in bulk and then sell them individually, sale dinner plates(bar-b-q or fish),  sale donuts, pizza cards, or maybe you can have a raffle. Make up some tickets for a Gift Basket that can be for a male or female, depending on the ocassion, and sell the tickets for $1 - 2.00, depending on how much you spent on the basket.  

There are a few holidays coming up, Easter, Mother's Day, and Father's Day.  So depending on when you need the money mabe you could do one of them.  that is if it is not illeagal in your state/ country.