Charge a favour Become the perfect child: offer to do the washing up, cleaning etc but then charge for the favour. It’s the perfect way to raise money.
Cake, sweet and cookie sale Hold a stall in your lunch break at your school. Ask you friends to make various goodies and sell them to you’re the pupils and teachers. Remember to label any that contain nuts.
Match the owner Why not ask your classmates to each bring in a picture of their pet, place all of the photo’s on a board in your school and charge a fee to guess the owners of each pet. Give a prize to the winner.
Hair beading and plaiting Charge a pound for each person to have the hair braided.
Baked bean competition How many baked beans can you eat with a cocktail stick in a minute? Get people to sponsor you.
Coin Picture Make a large picture of your favourite pet and cover it in coins
Ideas for fundraising in groups
Charity of the Year Choose The Blue Cross as your adopted charity and organise a number of fundraising events and activities throughout the year. As part of your adoption organise a visit to your local Blue Cross animal centre or hospital.
Class Collection Competition Give each class a large container and have a competition to see which class can collect to most 5p coins.
Non-uniform day Each child pay’s a £1 not to wear uniform for the day .You can also make your teachers wear uniform or fine them a £1. Other variations are: dress in blue day, blue hair/wig day, back to front day, themed days (cartoons, TV characters, historical characters, super heroes).
Bring and buy sale Hold a bring-and-buy sale or a fete in your school or local community centre. Ask all your friends to bring along items to sell and pocket money to buy.
Car wash day Wash cars in your road or close where you live and charge your neighbours. Or you could arrange with your school for a group of you to use the car park and make it a large event.
Sports contest Teachers V’s Students. Hold it at lunchtime and get the crowd to give money.
Paper chain How long can you make your chain? See if you can make it stretch all the way around your school. Ask grown ups to sponsor you for each link or for each metre.
Sunflower power Have a competition to grow the tallest sunflower. Ask grown ups to sponsor you for every inch in height it reaches.
Celebration services Organise a service in your school hall, for parents and teachers, to celebrate Christmas, Easter, Diwali or Harvest. Donate the proceeds of the collection to The Blue Cross.
