Here’s a list of 101 fundraising ideas that we hope will help inspire you to run a successful fundraising event!

If you are thinking of fundraising for Hue Help, please do get in touch first – there’s loads of support and advice we can offer you to help you make your event successful:

1. 100 Club
2. Annual Dinner Dance / Party
3. Annual Event – dance/fireworks/New Year party, etc
4. Annual Subscription/Membership
5. Art Sale / Auction
6. Auction of Promises
7. Auctions of Promises
8. Bad Hair Day
9. Balloon Races
10. Balls & Dances – mid-summer, Valentines Day, New Year or Christmas
11. Barn Dances
12. Beetle Drive
13. Bingo
14. Bucket or Street Collections outside stores and in shopping malls
15. Burns Night Celebrations
16. Cake Bake
17. Car Boot sales
18. Car Wash
19. Carol Singing
20. Celebrity Speaker Event (eg.figures)
21. Challenge Events
22. Charity Stall for Sales of Second Hand items
23. Cheese & Wine Evenings
24. Chess Competition
25. Christmas Card & calendar sales
26. Christmas Fair
27. Clay Pigeon Shoot
28. Clothes Swap
29. Coffee Morning
30. Concerts
31. Cookery Book
32. Cookery Demo or Themed Food Evening
33. Country Walk or Ramble
34. Craft Fair
35. Crazy Golf Match
36. Disco
37. Donations
38. Duck Races
39. Easter Egg Hunt
40. Face Painting
41. Family Portrait / Photo
42. Fancy dress party
43. Fashion Shows
44. Fetes
45. Fifty Fifty Sale
46. Film Premiere – sponsor or show a new film
47. Fireworks Display
48. Flower Arranging Demonstration
49. Football Match / Tournament
50. Fun Runs
51. Garden Parties
52. Generous Giving from Wealth Individuals
53. Gladiators / It’s a Knockout
54. Golf Events
55. Grants from Fundraising Bodies & Trusts
56. Helping Hand service – offer to cut peoples grass, walk their dogs or look after their home whilst they’re on holiday, asking for a donation in return
57. Horse Racing evening
58. International Evenings – themed evenings, Italian, Indian, Australian, etc
59. Just Giving – use Facebook and ???? to let your friends and family know all about it
60. Karaoke Evening
61. Litter Picking (Sponsored)
62. Love Grams for Valentines Day -take orders in advance, on the day deliver a card & candy or card & single rose to each person’s dorm room. People may order these for that special someone in their life, but also sometimes for friends. You can make a reasonable amount of $$ , just make sure that you buy the cards and candy in bulk and charge a fair price, for example, between $3-5 would seem affordable for most students.
63. Make Overs
64. Mile of Pennies
65. Mufti, Dress Down or Non-Uniform Day
66. Murder Mystery evening
67. Music QUiz
68. Mystery Tour / Trip
69. Open Garden Events
70. Paintballing
71. Pancake Day party
72. Parachute Jump
73. Plant Sale
74. Playstation party – get your mates to bring their PS2 & PS3’s round and charge everyone to play the different games
75. Poetry Competition
76. Pub Tournaments – e.g. darts, Skittles, darts, pool, cards
77. Quit It – give up chocolate / smoking / etc for a week / month
78. Quiz Night
79. Quizzes
80. Raffles. A fifty/fifty raffle is where tickets are sold and half the proceeds go to you. All you have to do is sell the tickets and the winner of the raffle splits the total amount with your group. The lucky winner receives 50% of the amount of ticket sales and your group gets to keep the other 50%. Most people are happy to buy raffle tickets, most ages are happy to sell them (check that it’s legal and safe in your area) and a few $1 tickets can add up to several hundred dollars if you’ve got a good team of individuals selling them.
81. Rambles
82. Readathon – ideal for primary schools, students get sponsored for every book they read or just a flat donation for pupils that just need to be encouraged to read
83. Run a Marathon
84. Salsa Night
85. Santa Letters writing
86. Santas Grotto
87. Scavenger Hunt
88. Sell Christmas Gifts
89. Seventies Night / Disco
90. Singing Telegrams – ideal for birthdays or as a one-off fundraiser for Mothers Day. Ideal for students, call your mother and sing the song of your choosing for a small charge
91. Smarties tubes – collect £1 coins for your cause
92. Sponsored Abseiling
93. Sponsored Anything
94. Sponsored Head/Hair shave
95. Sponsored Jail break
96. Sponsored Silence
97. Spring clean your wardrobes and sell on eBay
98. Spring Flowers & Hanging Baskets – Demonstration & Plant Sale
99. Strawberries & Cream Tea party – at Wimbledon time. Also how about hand dipped chocolate strawberries as a student graduation or end of exams event
100. Talent Show
101. Ten Pin Bowling

Good luck!