fund raising ideas

[zzxxee]

In 18 months time my 13 year old daughter is going to Kenya for ten days with her school.
To help out in a slum area in a school.
As parents we have to pay £800, then through self funding, and joint funding they need to raise another £750 per pupil.
what im after is fund raising ideas they can do in groups or self funding ideas.
They are expected to raise £50 each per month
thanks in advance all x

[jb190281]

Packing peoples shopping at the checkout of local supermarkets, with a bucket for donations, perfect way to get peoples loose change

[zzxxee]

noted down jb190281 thankyou x

[stokemaveric]

sponsored silence in class...worth its weight in gold lol

[mollykins]

Cake sale.
Bagpacking.
sponsored silence.
raffle.

[craft1948]

Sell her mother's clothes on ebay..............

[zzxxee]

lol craft thanks for all the ideas all all noted keep em coming will pop by to check later x

[DTCwordfan]

sponsored (by hour) cleaning of a slum/support to the slum's kids/schools near where you live - amy even engineer a twinning with the Kenyan school.

Be careful to highlight the benefits of what you are doing here (and what will you do in Kenya). What will the targets be and also the milestones en route. What will be the feedback to your sponsors and the community - for instance sending out your kids to local schools with a presentation to them when the exhange has taken place........???

[smurf]

tombola stall on local market a friends daughter did that for similar trip i certain anyone could a prize unwanted xmas pressies maybe

[Nosha123]

car washing!!! in fancy dress maybe???

[Mick-Talbot]

£1550 per pupil?

are you paying for the teachers?

[milly143]

Ouch, that's a lot of money to find.

Is there a local paper you could contact who might do an article on it?

[DTCwordfan]

and local tv......

[ttfn]

Just a random thought zzxxee but could the school apply to the National Lottery Fund?
My own local BBC radio station have a fund which helps people/organisations in a similar manner.

[Dris]

Just putting a different slant on it and I do salute the thought behind it...but would it not be more worthwhile donating the money as im not sure what a 14/15yr old could do to physically help where as the money would certainly help the professionals and adult volunteers.
I would think if your daughter was to raise money by doing car washes and tombolas etc it would raise her awareness just as much and would give her the satisfation of knowing the money was going to genuinely help.

[zzxxee]

any exrta money raised through activities will be donated to the kenyan school. The children will be helping to teach the kids and build extra classrooms. My daughters school does fund raising activities throughout the whole year to donate to the school, these trips only happen every two years.

[woofgang]

auction of promises or sell vouchers for jobs, car washes, window cleaning etc but the children MUST honour the vouchers.
Maybe pretend to arrange a really awful evening entertainment..venue somewhere horrible, create a really nasty menu, someone dreadful speaking and so on and charge people a pound not to go...for that they get a ticket describing the evening they avoided.

[Mick-Talbot]

The children will be helping to teach the kids and build extra classrooms.

Teach them what?
Are the kids at this school builders?

I would have thought kids had enough to worry about without being expected to raise £50 per month to fund school jollies.

[mazie]

A phone in on the local radio. Local companies sponsor the kids for a pound a question. The companies get a mention and the kids feel great

[ttfn]

woofgang - sounds as though you have experienced your fair share of bad nights out!

[annie0000]

Could they run a tuck shop at school? They could get a couple of parents to help them get stuff at the cash and Carry (school should have a card - or the parent council) and they could do a healthy tuck shop - water, fruit, etc If not on a regula basis, they could maybe do the catering for school shows and events or ask at your local football club or rugby club if they's be able to to catering for training sessions or even matches if it was a small club.