Fundraising Ideas

This page contains a list of fundraising ideas in no particular order.  We hope this list inspires you.  It is by no means exhaustive.  You can also search the Internet for fundraising ideas and find many more.

We encourage you to think of ideas that can be done outside the school as we don’t want families at school to become overburdened with too many fundraising projects being done at school.

We also remind you that any fundraising activity you undertake must be in line with the values of the school.  

Other than those two points, let your creative ideas go wild!

  • Bunning’s Sausage Sizzle (makes about $500) or a Sausage Sizzle at your church/ local sports club.
  • Wacky Hair Day at your local church (We will still have our school one as the kids and staff so look forward to this!).
  • Garden Tour
  • Dinner party for a group of friends and sell tickets for it.  (Theme it, dress up etc)
  • Cater (food) for a celebration – at your workplace or a birthday celebration.  Perhaps for an older person’s group at church who would be happy to donate for such a great cause!!!
  • Coffee and Cake Morning (and e.g. charge $10 p/person) – great way to get Mums from a class together or Mum’s from old coffee group!
  • Coin Trail – at church / St Martins Shopping Centre
  • Take a bunch of people out for the day from a local retirement village.
  • Hire a Movie Theatre and sell tickets to friends (Get together with a few families to do this.)
  • Ice Skating Fundraiser
  • Organise a car rally – could be for kids or parents
  • Bike-a-thon e.g. 12 hour race with teams! (Family teams, kids teams, challenge other families)
  • Sailing Day – teach a group to sail
  • ‘Cadbury’ or ‘Cookie Time’ fundraisers – check their websites for information on this.
  • Pre-sell cakes, pizzas or fudge (take orders for homemade baking)
  • Car wash after church or sports practice – yes please (vacuuming inside also would be fantastic!)
  • Busking – for example a family group of children outside supermarkets
  • Garage sale – combine with selling homemade food, coffee or fruit on street outside your house
  • Invest in the Share Market
  • Selling items off trade me (do the garage sales to collect items at a cheap price)
  • Contact the City Council to see what they can offer – e.g. clean up after Christmas in the Park
  • Collect sponsorship to do something ….. Such as is done for the 40 hour famine.  Perhaps a class could all do something together and each get sponsorship.  This may involve learning something new (eg spelling or topic quiz) and being tested on this, or all going without something for a certain amount of time.
  • Organise an auction – ask local businesses for donations
  • Organise a quiz night or trivia night.  You could consider a variation such as a certain theme like food etc (could include tastings)
  • Organise a tour through a workplace of interest (e.g. police station to see cells, laboratories, radio factory etc).  Kids are always interested in seeing new and different things.
  • Organise a ‘party’ such as ‘cake decorating’, ‘cupcake decorating’, necklace making’ etc 
  • Raft race – ask the City Council to help through the Neighborhood support fund. 
  • Work days – washing windows for elderly, groceries for elderly, mowing lawns, painting fences, cleaning ovens.  Again the website may be a useful tool to advertise jobs that are for purchase etc or to request help from people to do some of these tasks.
  • Organise an activity to make money while you are camping at Christmas
  • Organise a golf tournament for work mates!
  • Girls Day Out or Boys Day Out
  • Buying Fruit in Bulk and Selling it
  • Auctioning stays at holiday homes, artwork etc.
  • Men’s breakfast
  • Fashion Parades
  • Art exhibitions
  • Architectural homes tour
  • Family sports afternoon - relays, sack races, egg and spoon race etc.
  • Hairdressing
  • Organise your wardrobe service
  • Hire the court theatre or one of the other theatres in Christchurch.
  • Have a movie night and sell tickets, popcorn and lollies - you could do this with a kid's movie and get the kids to come dressed up.
  • Christmas shoppers or shopping list creators - are you great at finding gifts - help others who are stuck for ideas or time.
  • If you are really stuck for ideas, or don't want to fundraise you could still be involved by making a regular payment into the gym fundraising account, even $1 a week adds up over a year.
  • Dog walking or bathing
  • Pet minding while people are away on holiday.
  • After school or 'Teacher Only Day' child minding
  • Child minding sick children in their own home for a few hours so their parents can go to work.