A-Z Listing of Event Ideas
Make headlines in your community by turning what you love to do into an opportunity to raise money and awareness for Amnesty International's human rights work! Here are some great ideas to get you started. If you have any questions, please contact us at specialevents@amnesty.ca
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Aerobics-a-thon
Arm Wrestling
Art Auction
Art Exhibition
Auction : anything including your services from window cleaning or babysitting to the highest bidder
B
Baby contest: guess who! Ask colleagues for photos of themselves as babies: then ask people to guess who’s who.
Balloon Race
Baseball or Basketball contest/tournament
Bingo
Blindfold Event
Bowling Competition/tournament
Buy-outs: Pay to get out of class and raise money for Amnesty International!
C
Car Washing
Card Night
Cardboard Collection Box: at home or work, every penny counts
Concerts
Craft Sale
Cycling: Tour against Torture!
D
Dances
Drama night
Dress down day
E
Easter Egg Hunt: charge for entry and then watch your entrants charge! Write human rights info on the eggs
Email: tell everyone about your event, tell them to pass it on!
Employers Matched Donation: it can’t hurt to ask and you’ll double your donation
F
Festivals and Fairs: get involved locally
Formal Dress: party, at work or school
Fashion Show
Five-a-Side Soccer
Flower Arranging: give lessons or charge for your services
G
Garage Sale
Give it up: and be sponsored to do so (stop smoking, eating chocolate, drinking coffee..)
Go-Karting
Golfing Competition
Guess: how many candies are in the jar or what you’re eating blindfolded!
Guest Speaker event
H
Hairdressing: give your services at a local event
Haunted House Party
Hide and Seek
Home-made sale: clothes, food, crafts
Human Rights Day: celebrate it!
I
In Memorium gifts for someone you care about
International Women’s Day Events
J
Jazz Night
Jewelry Sale: make it from anything!
Jumble Sale
K
Karaoke Night: pay not to take part?!?!
Knobbly Knees: guess whose are in the photo or run a competition
L
Lawn Care: perform lawn duties (rake leaves, shovel snow, cut grass, trim bushes, put up Christmas lights etc.) for a donation to Amnesty International
Lawn Sale
Lent: give something up for Amnesty, do things for people
Literary Evening
M
Massage your colleagues shoulders for Amnesty
Micro-scooter race
Mock Arrest: build a jail cell, people pay for friends to be freed or arrested
Model Boats: build it and race it
Music Event
N
No event is too small: all you need is imagination!
O
Open Garden Tours
Orienteering: a cross-country/city/neighborhood race using a map and compass to navigate between checkpoints along an unfamiliar course.
P
Paint Balling
Parachuting
Photography: organize an exhibition or take and sell snaps at local event
Plant Sale: to sell at events or put a sign in your front garden
Poetry Reading
Pub Quiz: ask your local pubs to make a donation to Amnesty or organize a pub quiz for them
R
Readings
Refreshments: have a stall at a local event. Place of worship etc.
Refugee Event: celebrate and invite your local community
Rubber Duck Race: tag the ducks and watch them go down the river
Running: from marathons, to fun runs etc.
S
Schools: organize events at your school, or local schools
Scrabble Evening
Second Hand Sale: books, course books, CDs etc.
Shave: hair, beard, teacher, self and get sponsored
Sports team: Have your sports team raise money for human rights!
Swear Box: at work
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Taste for Justice: hold a dinner, a garden party, a pizza night, the list is endless!
Taxi: drive your friends around for a reasonable charge
Teach: flower arranging, swimming, driving, yoga…
Thons: anything from dance-a-thon, starve-a-thon,
Three Legged/Egg and Spoon Races
Treasure Hunt
Tug of War: gloves and rope and you’re all set
U
Unwanted gifts sale: ask around, especially after major religious festivals, email all your colleagues: and resell them to different colleagues!
V
Victorian evening: dress up and have fuuuuuunnn!
W
Walk (for life and human rights)
Weddings/Wedding Anniversary parties: for the couple who has everything!
Window Cleaning
Write-a-thon: have a letterwriting marathon and ask friends to sponsor you per letter.
Y
Yoga-thon: take on the challenge of holding a yoga-thon for Amnesty!
Z
Zest: make your event go with a zing! (okay, so we had trouble with Z! Can you think of something??)