Top 5 Fundraising Ideas

To help provide you with some inspiration here are the top five fundraising ideas from the 1600 schools that took part last year!

1. Harvest Activities

The options for fundraising at your Harvest Festival are numerous. You can have a harvest collection for FoodAid, make up a big pot of soup and hold a Harvest lunch or organise a FoodAid assembly or concert and take the opportunity to use some of the FoodAid songs!! Or why not organise an auction of food products donated by parents and local businesses.

Last year Castle Lower School in Bedford raised an amazing £616.78 for FoodAid through harvest related activities and Pennoweth Primary School in Redruth, Cornwall raised £131.18 by making soup made from vegetables that children brought in and holding a ‘Harvest Soup Kitchen’ in the school hall, which proved a massive hit!

2. Cake Sale

Get making those cakes, biscuits and sweets and organise a cake sale at lunch time or as part of your harvest activities.

Last year pupils and teachers at Sprowston Middle School in Norwich used the FoodAid Fair-trade recipes to bake and sell cookies and raised £168 for Concern’s food related projects overseas!!

3. Coin Art

Coin Art involves painting a reasonably simple design on the playground (eg a map of Africa or Malawi or the FoodAid logo) and getting pupils, teachers and parents to place coins in the appropriate place to build up the picture. This innovative fundraising idea is great fun and is becoming increasingly popular with schools supporting FoodAid.

Pupils at Hotwells Primary School in Bristol raised over £335 last year by collecting and placing coins on a huge map of Africa.

4. Non-School Uniform Day

An old traditional favourite - pupils paying a pound to have a days rest from wearing their school uniform! Why not take non-uniform day one step further and get the teachers to dress up in school uniform?

5. Sponsored Water Walk

Sponsored ‘water walks’ are a popular FoodAid fundraiser. The aim is to walk approximately 4 miles, the distance some young children have to walk to fetch water in the developing world. If 4 miles seems like a long way the class can do this as a relay, the combined distance for the whole class being approximately 4 miles.

The infants at South Wingford Primary school walked two miles whilst the juniors walked four miles to raise a staggering £1536.50 in sponsorship.

Remember, what ever you decide to do and however much you raise this really is your chance to make a difference.