need easy recipes for fund raisers for volunteer auxiliary to use for Fire Dept. serving about 200 people SW?

Question

Who has easy receipies for fund raisers for Volunteer Fire Department, need to feed aprox. 200 people. Funds provide Gloves, Shields, Training, anything needed each month for fire fighters all great men and women our way of saying thank you is to provide a good meal the community will want to come to, we need to have receipies that do not cost a lot to prepare and are easy to serve all ideas would be helpful. Please help all Volunteer Departments near you, they are so easy to ignore till you need them

Answer 1

Hi, One of the easiest and most cost effective for a large group is a Spagetti dinner with salad, rolls or garlic bread and dessert. That is what I have used in the past.

I also want to let you know that I have a fundraising page on my website if you would like to take a look at it. Everything is explained and the only thing your group would need to do is get my website address out. http://www.wonderful.myarbonne.com This could be an on going fundraiser for you along with your other fundraisers. If you have any questions please just call me and I will answer your questions. Good luck with your fundraiser.

Answer 2

Most volunteer fire halls around here have carnivals. The carnival manager brings the games and rides and the operators to run them while the firemens' families cook hot dogs, hamburgers, popcorn, cakes and pies and have raffles and wheels of chance to gamble etc. The better the weather, the more money is to be made. They usually run Thursday and Friday nights 6 to11 and noon to 11 on Saturday and 2 to 8 on Sunday. Thousands are made very easily if everyone helps out. There is just about no risk to the fire department. Make sure to get the correct permits and special liability insurance for the event. The carnival manager does this for a living, so he knows what you will need! For a one night affair, a spaghetti dinner is almost 70% profit. For a weekend event a bull and oyster roast or a shrimp roast are big winners. Get it catered and let their staff do the food work while you do the gambling work and the selling of the beer and mixed drinks. Local taverns usually donate some liquor if asked, and you can sell tickets for a whiskey and wine basket. Always send thank you letters to the bars that give you donations. You can ask a printer to donate the tickets and he will probably do that to, if you ask and let him put "tickets donated by xyz Co." on them on the reverse side. The big problem is to have security personnel to roam the grounds to stop kids from running and endangering others. You may want to ask permission from the Fire Department to keep your engines out of service if possible. You always run the risk of having a multi-alarm fire and having to put them in-service. Therefore, you will need more adult bodies to run the event, if the fireman have to leave. Never, ever let teenagers be in charge of or handle money! DON'T FORGET THE WHEELS and 50-50's!

Answer 3

I am on a fire department, a nationally certified FF-1. We usually have Fireman's Day the first Saturday in July. This generally grosses aboout $15,000. We have tried fish fries. Another good one is Fire house chili. It is easy to make and you can make it in roasting pans. Our town is only 150, but we get way over that to come to our events. I am the secretary/treasurer, another thing we do is send out a letter asking for donations, we do this usually in May. Last year we brought in $2000, from this. Postage and letters only run about $150. Selling T-shirts and caps is good also. You can sell them at the door when you have your events. Raffles are good, you can get a shot gun for the men and like a digital camera for the women. The kids games are nice for the kids, but plan to loose a little on that. Everyone likes Chili though and it is a crowd pleaser. Some of our neighboring towns have pancake breakfasts, but we don''t have a grill at our community center. I think you could probably talk the Knight's of Columbus in bringing their grill if they know what it is for.

Answer 4

I read on this website an easy recipe for cheese cake is, put a grahm cracker on the bottom put whatever in the middle (I think it is cream cheese) and jelly on the top (your favorite kind)