Fundraising ideas for your school

If you’re not sure what type of fundraising event you want to do yet, don't worry! We've got loads of ideas to help.

Nursary school

• Be more Womble and recycle: ask the pupils to bring in their old clothes, toys or books and have a Bring and Buy Sale

• Go blue and yellow day: everyone can wear their brightest clothes, fluorescent face paint or favourite blue and yellow accessories.

• Dress up day:  dress up as your favourite superhero, movie character, animal, or anything else that you can think of.

• Have a bake sale: get everyone baking and raising money for children with a school bake sale.

• Dance-athon: get energised with a music-filled dance party.

• Raffle: hold a raffle with donated prizes and see how much you can raise.

• Teddy bear's picnic: children can bring in their favourite teddy and have a picnic all together.

• Wacky hair day: try out the wackiest hair style you can think of.

• Easter egg hunt: hold an Easter hunt and see who can find the most eggs.

Primary school & Secondary schools

• Be more Womble and recycle: ask the pupils to bring in their old clothes, toys or books and have a Bring and Buy Sale

• Go blue and yellow day: the whole school can wear their brightest clothes, fluorescent face paint or favourite blue and yellow accessories.

• Dress down day: keep it casual or have some fun and get dressed up.

• Have a bake sale: get the whole school baking and raising money for children with a school bake sale.

• School cookbook: pupils and parents submit their favourite recipes to a cookbook and collate it all together. Sell the cookbook and donate the money raised.

• Is this the greatest show?: go big with a talent contest or organise a battle of the bands. Charge for entry to the contest and for tickets to come along and watch.

• Dance-athon: dance away with a music-filled party or organise a Strictly-style contest. Classes could even learn moves before the big day and people can donate to take part, or to come and watch.

• Sponsored silence: raise money, but don’t shout about it! See if you can manage a silent afternoon of just nodding and pointing.

• Parents Sports Day challenge: have a parent sports competition or race on your sports day, which people can pay an entry fee for. You could have a prize for the winner.

• Learn a new skill: pupils get sponsored to learn a useful new skill

• Raffle: hold a raffle with donated prizes and see how much you can raise.

• Read-a-thon: challenge students to get reading and sponsored for charity.

• Wacky hair day: try out the wackiest hair style you can think of.

• No tech day: have a whole day with no phones, iPads, laptops, or any other technology.

• Easter egg hunt: hold an Easter hunt and see who can find the most eggs.

• Cinema: hold an outdoor cinema event using a projector and charge for tickets. Maybe there could be snack shop with popcorn and other snacks.

Pupils could pay a small entry fee to enter one of the below competitions, and there could be a donated prize for the winner:

• Drawing contest: challenge pupils to show off their drawing skills.

• Guess how many: challenge pupils to guess how many items are in a jar.

• Jigsaw puzzle race: see who can complete a puzzle the fastest.

• Lego contest: see who can build the most impressive Lego creation.

• Obstacle course: see who can complete the obstacle course fastest.

Secondary School Pupils could also have a go at

• Turn £5 into..: give groups of students £5 to try and turn into more. They could bake or make crafts to sell.

charity of the year

You could support AFC Wimbledon Foundation all year round by making us your Charity of the Year. This is a great way to get students engaged and interested in the work we do and learn more about charitable organisations. Maybe you could set a fundraising target and students could organise fun events all year round to reach this.

If you’d like to discuss any of these fundraising ideas or make us your charity of the year please email Paul Munro or call him on 07888 636032.