A
Abseil
- a group of people could abseil down a local building
Aerobics: sponsored marathon/competition
Antiques fair
Arts or crafts stall/exhibition/fair
Auctions
B
Bad hair/tie day
Baked beans bath
Barbecue
Barn Dance
Bits and Pieces (music quiz)
BMX bike display, or competition
Book/comic sale
Boot sale
Bouncy castle – it could be a sponsored event, eg number of bounces
per minute!
Bring and buy sale
C
Cabarets/talent
shows
Car boot sale
Car washing (in schools grounds)
Card delivery service, pupils pay for delivery within the school
Carol singing – see fundraising guidelines
Charity shop – open one lunchtime a week selling donated items
Christmas cards – making and selling them, or selling bought cards
Class collections
Coffee mornings
Collections of money at speech day
Collections of other things (eg waste paper, bottle tops, coins, stamps)
Competitions
Computer games knockout, best if played in pairs
Concerts/recitals/plays/shows
Cook books – writing a class or school cookbook that can then be sold
Cookery contest (eg Ready Steady Cook – could be the teachers!)
Cookie Challenge – a ChildLine fundraising initiative involving telephone-shaped
cookies
D
Dance marathon
Dinner dance/ball
Discos/raves
Donkey Derby
Dragon boat race
Dry Cornflakes/Cream Cracker-eating contest
E
Easter egg hunt
Easter party
Egg rolling competition
F
Face painting
Fairs, fetes, bazaars, etc
Fancy dress party/day
Fashion show (with clothes made by pupils or donated by local shops)
Film show/premiere
Fireworks party (adults to organise)
Flower/fruit/vegetable show/sale/display/stall
Foam party – fill paddling or swimming pool with foam and then party!
Football tournament
G
Game shows (eg Stars In Their Eyes, Wheel of Fortune, Blockbusters,
Blind Date etc)
Gigs (local bands play in school)
Gladiators/Gladifakers
Golf match
Gymkhana
H
Hair beading/plaiting
Halloween party
Hot-dog/burger stand
I
It’s a Knockout competition
J
Judo competition
or display (adults to organise)
Jumble sale
K
Karaoke competition/display (adults to organise)
Kite flying
L
Line dancing
Longest chain of paper-clips, line of coins, etc
Lottery – can be Chocco Lotto where numbers are put onto sweet packets
M
Man O Man (or Teacher
O Teacher)
Marathon events - table tennis, aerobics, line dancing, badminton, etc (in
shift teams)
Midsummer masked ball
Midnight film shows/parties/etc
Mufti/non-uniform/denim/tracksuit/etc day
Murder Mystery evening
N
New Year's Eve dance/party
Night-time hide and seek, using torches
No work day, students choose what they want to do
O
Old-time music hall
One hundred club – raising £100 every week, half term or term,
or a fundraising club with 100 members in it
P
Pancake day race/competition
Panel games
Parties – school birthday/anniversary, etc
Penalty shoot-out competition
Penny mile, where coins are lined up and measured – can be done in teams
Pet show
Photographic competitions
Pram push
Q
Quizzes
R
Races
Raffles (see guidelines)
Rapping contest, show or sponsored event
S
Saints’ days parties/theme day
Santa’s grotto
School fair
Scoff-a-hotdog competition (eg ‘who can eat two in the fastest time
possible’!)
Shakespeare marathon
Silly games afternoons: egg & spoon, silly races, wet sponge throwing,
etc
Skateboard display
Slide evening
Soap episodes show or theme day
Sponsored events (eg bike ride, dog walk, knit, kite-flying, headshave, haircut,
hula-hooping, no smoking, rapping, run, shoe-clean, silence, sing, sports
match, swim, talk, three-legged walks, walk, watch TV/don’t watch TV,
window clean, etc etc etc)
Sports contests, teachers vs students (no PE teachers allowed!)
Stalls at fairs etc (eg cakes, plants, books)
Strawberry and cream tea party
Student-teacher swap day
Swap-shop
T
Tea
party
Teddy bears’ picnic
Theme days/evenings (eg countries - French, Spanish; soap operas, past-eras
etc)
Throwing wet sponges at a person/teacher in stocks, great at a summer fair!
Tombola
Top of the Pops show, teachers or students miming and dancing to chart music
Treasure hunt
Tuck shop, where the profits go to ChildLine – getting supplies donated?
U
Uniform days (for schools without a uniform and/or for teachers)
University challenge
V
Variety show
W
Wacky Races
Whist drive
White Elephant stall
Who’s that baby? (students and staff bring in photos of themselves as
babies)
X
X-Files day (Use your imagination – the ideas are out there!)
Xmas fair/panto/party
Y
Yacht race, etc
Young Enterprise Scheme run by students, donate part of profits (eg making
and selling cards)
Z
Zany parties
