Fundraising Ideas
Publishing
Create a booklet or collection of short stories or poems either
your own or by asking for a donation of articles from likely
contributors, then put the booklets together and start selling. A
typical run of 300 glossy 24 page A5 b/w booklets costs less than £125.00 and
say you sell them at a modest £5.00 each you have a profit of £1375
for your efforts. The first few sales should be relatively easy
because your contributors will want at least one booklet each.
Similar to the above and depending on the organisation your
raising funds for and the content you have two ways to raise funds
either by selling advertising space or the booklets themselves. A
couple more ideas:
- A school year book with pictures and stories from the kids
which is a good keepsake for parents
- A welcome to the village booklet for newcomers, you give
them away for free but sell the advertising space within. When
your moving or thinking of moving to a new place you really want
to know the area and you also want help from local trades people
so this is an ideal way of advertising for your local traders.
- Got a listed building or interesting sites, why not tell
there history in print!
See our booklet prices on
this website.
Hold an Event
It could be a dinner and dance or a disco, sports day or fancy
dress ball, but whatever it is it gives you the opportunity to sell
entrance tickets, maybe have a programme of events for sale and a
raffle at the end of the night. A few ideas:
- Variety Show with your friends or neighbours participating
- A sponsored Sporting Event or 24hr Skate-athon, dart-athon
- Have an interesting occupation or venue why not have an open
day
- A Murder Mystery Who-dunnit Evening
- A Masked Ball
- Karaoke Evening - never fails
- Jumble Sale - one man's rubbish
- Hold a Race Night
- Halloween Ball with fancy dress
- Football Tournament - Entrance Fees, Programmes & Half-Time
Raffle
- Charity Golf Day
- 70's, 80's, or 90's Night
Raffles Draws and Lotteries
The old faith-full raffle, but yes it's still very effective and
we print millions of these each year so they have got to be going
somewhere! You can organise a raffle for nothing at all, you just
need sponsorship, again local business is the key and you can
usually rely on them to donate prizes, sponsor the price of the
tickets and pay for advertising space on the front and back of the
tickets. The back of a ticket can be very useful because you can put
promotional vouchers on the back which help to entice people to buy
the tickets and of course this is all paid for by the sponsors. We
have some customers who are actually in profit before they sell the
first ticket!
Mini Totes
Raffle too complex, then a Mini Tote might be more interesting,
One of the easiest fundraisers and ideal in clubs and pubs. A better
explanation can be found on our Mini Tote page but basically you
sell a fixed amount of tickets and then draw the numbers, each
ticket has a unique set of numbers and there can only be one winner.
For example a single set of 1-40 Mini Totes will cost you £1.30
(minimum order is 25 sets) for which you get 260 tickets selling at
say 50p each, make the prize £50 which is a good incentive for a 50p
stake and you would make an instant profit of £78.70!
Other Ideas
If you have any other fundraising ideas involving tickets or any
other kind of printed product or anything else involving fundraising
we would be glad to hear about it and add it to the list of ideas
already on this page.
Please submit any ideas to
Sales@printdomain.net
and we'll share them with others...