A to Z fundraising ideas
A
Aerobics-a-thon
Afternoon Tea/Coffee
Amnesty’s birthday: celebrate May 28th
Arm Wrestling
Art Auction
Art Exhibition
A-thons : Juggle-a-thon, swim-a-thon, run or walk a thon
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.
Bake Sale
Balloon Race
Barbeques
Barn Dance
Baseball or Basketball contest/tournament
Bingo
Book Reading
Blindfold Event
Biscuits: from around the world: bake, sell and eat
Booksales
Bowling Competition/tournament
Bring & Buy Sale
Buy-outs: Pay to get out of class and raise money for Amnesty International!
C
Cabaret Night
Cajun Evening
Cake Decorating
Cake Sales
Car Washing
Card Night
Cardboard Collection Box: at home or work, every penny counts
Carnivals: get involved
Carol Singing: in the local shopping centre
Cheese and wine evening: guess the wines
Choirs
Choral Concert
Christmas events
Church Collection
Cinema night: ask your local cinema or film society
Classical Concert
Clubs
Cocktail Evening
Coffee House/Morning
Collect and send in used stamps and foreign currency to Amnesty
Collection jar in shops, dentists etc.
Collections: theatres, cinemas etc.
Comedy Evening
Concerts
Country Theme: food, decoration, literature, music and dress
Craft Sale
Cricket Test
Cycling: Tour against Torture!
D
Dances
Dance till u drop
Disco Dinner: at home, ask a restaurant for a special deal
Drama night
Dress down day
Dinner: Organize a dinner where guests bring a donation to Amnesty rather than a gift for the host
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
Fairtrade event: coffee, chocolate, bananas
Formal Dress: party, at work or school
Fashion Show
Five-a-Side Soccer
Flower Arranging: give lessons or charge for your services
Fortune Cookies: stuff with human rights information
G
Garage Sale
Garden Party
Gig: Have your band do a human rights gig!
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
Hunger Dinner: everyone pays for dinner but some people know they’ll run the risk of eating plain rice
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
Local Events
Lunch for Amnesty
Lunchtime learning: hold a class in yoga or….
M
Marathon
Market sale
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
Murder Mystery Meal
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
Party: themed, formal, patio/garden, Christmas or just have a party!
Photography: organize an exhibition or take and sell snaps at local event
Picnic: garden, park
Plant Sale: to sell at events or put a sign in your front garden
Poetry Reading
Product Sale: You get the thing(s), they buy the thing (s) and Amnesty gets the money!
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
Rotary Club: excellent local fundraisers and full of ideas!!
Running: from marathons, to fun runs etc.
S
Sales
Schools: organize events at your school, or local schools
School Sports: you don’t need to be still at school, you just need a park and a whistle!
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!
Starve-a-thon: Try a 12-24 hour starve-a-thon to raise money!
Stop Smoking and donate what you save or get sponsored to succeed
Strawberry Tea
Street Theatre
Summer Lunch
Supermarket Collections
Swear Box: at work
Swim-a-thon
T
Taxi: drive your friends around for a reasonable charge
Tea morning: if you don’t like coffee
Teach: flower arranging, swimming, driving, yoga…
Ten Pin Bowling Night
Theatre/Cinema Collection
Theatre Night: put on your own production
Themed Event: pick a country, an era, a decade etc.
Three Legged/Egg and Spoon Races
Treasure Hunt
Tree of Hope
Tug of War: gloves and rope and you’re all set
Twenty Four Hours: can you last?
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)
Water Bucket Carry: organize teams and see who’s the best at racing
Weddings/Wedding Anniversary parties: for the couple who has everything!
Window Cleaning
Wine and Wisdom Quiz Evening
Wine Tasting/Wine and Cheese: invite an expert and charge admission, just have fun
Workplace Collection: perhaps on payday each month
Workplace Sale: books, lunches
Y
Yoga Event: salute the dawn for Amnesty International
Z
Zest: make your event go with a zing! (okay, so we had trouble with Z! Can you think of something??)