any ideas of fundraising ideas for a childrens sports group?

Question

this is a primary school aged club. children from 5 to 11.

Answer 1

I have completed many fundraisers from sporting teams to church youth groups. Here are some of my favorites.

If you have a tight knit community with good parent support (everyone knows everyone and are friendly), try a pink flamingo sale. This sale is based on revenge. Parents/family members pay to have a pink flamingo (or mascot of a rival team) placed on the front lawn of another family. Of course, no one wants a pink flamingo (opposing mascot) on their lawn, so when you place the object you leave information on how they can find out who put this on their lawn. There are many ways to earn money this way. Charge for placement of the object. Charge for information regarding who placed the object. Charge pink flamingo insurance for anyone who doesn't want a mascot placed on their lawn (make it at least double the placement charge). This one is fun but takes a while to implement. If you need cash now try a Dinner with raffle/auction.

Dinner/Feed with auction and raffle: Spahetti Feeds are my favorite because the supplies are inexpensive and most grocery stores will ussually donate much of the supplies if asked ahead of time and if the grocery stores will not split your shopping list amoungst your families and ask them to donate. Now that you have free food. Everything else (printing tickets aside) is profit

Here are some tips for Dinners/raffles:

Sell tickets ahead of time This helps you two ways. First you know approximately how many to expect and how much money you have to work with. And many times people who buy the tickets never show up to be fed which only increases your profit. However allow tickets to be bought at the door also.

Ask local businesses to donate prizes to use in a silent auction and raffle at the feed. Do this at least 3 months prior to the event for the best results (as any soccer mom knows with the right parents this can be done in days). Use 2 or 3 big items as your raffle prizes and sell tickets ahead of time with your dinner tickets. Use the rest as silent auction items (place the name of the item and value on a piece of paper and allow participants to bid by writting their name and bid on the paper. You will be suprised how competitive people will get over junk.

Do not serve buffet style! Instead sit each family and have the children (those who are able) act as waiters/waitresses. Place an attractive looking tip vase or bucket on each table. Parents will tip adorable Johnny even IF he spills spaghetti all over their lap.

Answer 2

Why don't you do a race day where the children do a 1/2 mile.
They do a relay type race where they do a little bit each.
They will have to get sponsors.
You could do prices for first and second people.
You could do age categories - ages 5 - 8 and ages 9-11 - or in key stage 1 and 2

Answer 3

If the group is run through the school then maybe a sports day for parents/kids? Also there are different sponsered sports events you could run. If the group is outside of school there are loads of community grants you could apply for, you just need to speak to the school or a local community development worker! hope this helps in some way!

Answer 4

You could try holding a fundraising event nearby(possibly something to do with sport), organised by you and the children. Ask your local council for permission of the venue.

This is a great idea for you and the children to get involved, it would be great fun and an excellent experience! (plus it would hopefully make a profit)

Answer 5

the number one thing I can say is don't have them going door-to-door selling things. First, it's not safe, Second that means the parents end up doing it at work and at my office we kind of said "no more"! I don't know which sport they are in, but can they do a demo and charge for it? Can they do a training class with you for younger kids interested in that sport and get $$ for it? Are the parents active supporters? Because if so, maybe you can all get together and have a potluck dinner and charge admittance but have the food products brought by the parents. It also creates camraderie among the parents and a meeting place to discuss all their ideas and how you can together work to raise funds.

Answer 6

go kart racing

pay £40 for a 50 lap race

£20 to cover the karts and the track and £20 for the charity fundrasing kitty

get 60 people involved

have 6 races of 10 cars in each
first 5 in each race qualify for the next round

then 2 races of 15 karters in each the top 10 from those two races go to the grand final where they win a prize for winning the race (which you can decide on later)

Answer 7

To have some type of sports event in a local park and have fodd and beverages for sale... or a little prep rally like event and hold a raffle... that will bring in big BUCKS at least 100$... depending on the size of the crowd, and possibly an auction... Bake SAle...Sell Items...ASk for Bus Companys to drive you if you sponser them...Ask other businesses to donate if you sponser them... ps... GOOOOOD LUCK!!!

Answer 8

Our Brownie Pack did a Caterpillar Walk round our local park. The children wore green clothing under green refuse bags (clearly for safety reasons we allowed there heads and arms to poke through the relevant edges) face-painted their faces green, had them wear wellies (they came with lots of different brightly coloured ones that added to the effect), and sparkly hair bands with bug eyes on the ends of green tinsel pipe cleaners. Their challenge was to walk round the park in single file holding on to the person in front without breaking the caterpillar. They managed it and raised a fair wee bit. Hope this is helpful to you. Have fun and good luck to whatever you do :-)

Answer 9

I wouldnt do "kids will you sponser me please" of any kind because a lot of parents wont ask outside of imediate family ( I have kids in primary school and we talk ) try a bring and buy sale or have a christmas fair, ask local business for donations and have an auction (our school did the auction and it is surprising who will donate even if it is just a fish and chip supper) Good luck.

Answer 10

apart from raffles etc why not get a live group on and a local sports person to attend and go round with a bucket 4 donations