fund raising at local school

[danpwll]

hi, what are your ideas for fund raising at my daughters school, only 40 od kids and all very friendly . we had a good summer fair Saturday with a cracking cake stall !! even got on the marketing with all sorts of deals going on at end of the fair !! so what do you do wife needs new ideas ?? help much appreciated !!!!!!!

 

[solo]

Promise auction over winter works well, but is dependant on local contacts, for meals, logs, slave for a day etc

 

[Still Farming]

Dunk the teacher, teacher in the stock wet sponge challenge .
Just giving pages.
Bags to School ,raise money on old clothes donated.
End of term,Sausage sizzle ,party,bbq etc.
Lists go on

 

[B'o'B]

Wife did a crockery smash stall at fair that went well. Ask local pubs/restaurant/ charity shops for any crockery. Set up some shelves to put the breakables on and charge a £1 for 3 balls (I made some blocks of wood from a fallen branch) and let them smash away. Kids and parents loved it. (I wanted to have a go but was too busy on the BBQ to get time looked a lot of fun!).

She also set up a design your own t-shirt stall.

 

[teslacoils]

Each parent shoves in £20 and then doesn't have to :

Find £1 every three weeks for "wear a red t-shirt day".

Spend a fiver baking an ace cake to watch it be sold for £3, then having to spend £6 on a cake crapper than the one you provided yourself.

Buy someone else's reject Christmas gifts, or worse still win the tatty gifts you yourself donated to the raffle.

 

[Spuddler]

Spooky Fireworks for Halloween
Usually raises 2-3 k
Takes a bit of organising but seems to be a good money earner.

 

[Frodo2]

Each parent shoves in £20 and then doesn't have to :

Find £1 every three weeks for "wear a red t-shirt day".

Spend a fiver baking an ace cake to watch it be sold for £3, then having to spend £6 on a cake crapper than the one you provided yourself.

Buy someone else's reject Christmas gifts, or worse still win the tatty gifts you yourself donated to the raffle.

I think you are missing the community aspect of fund raising. While Just giving £20 may seem easy, it dosent let the adults bond to create a positive school community.

 

[B'o'B]

There was also a "Golden bucket". Buy a raffle ticket at a £1 a ticket all money goes in the bucket. The winning ticket gets half the money in the bucket

 

[Frodo2]

Friends organised a mini muddler on there farm which was very successful.

 

[B'o'B]

They also sell ice creams at the school gate after school on a Friday, kids, parents and teachers all buy them on a hot day and I have to chuck a couple of quid in during the week if I remember the stock is in the freezer!

 

[Still Farming]

I think you are missing the community aspect of fund raising. While Just giving £20 may seem easy, it dosent let the adults bond to create a positive school community.

Most don't support village business's other than the school ither.

 

[delilah]

When ours were at primary I built a human fruit machine, 3 kids behind the slots each with a bowl full of fruit that they randomly held up each time the buzzer was rung. Totally chaotic and the odds on winning depended on whether or not the kids on the machine liked the kid having a go, but all good fun.

 

[teslacoils]

Promise auction or barn dance best. Decent sized local employers squeezed for prizes after locating alumni.

Anything that hassles the often time- or cash-poor parents not on the organising committee are worst.

 

[Robt]

Slightly off topic.... well actually very off topic!
Would you donate on say a 99 year lease a small part of your field that is next to primary school? Our local, the parents and teachers have to park on the verge ( well it was once, it’s now a mud pile) yes I know it’s a whole other argument on shouldn’t kids walk to school.
Opposite it is a field. Why doesn’t farmer donate it on a lease and cover it in road plannings? It would only need to be half an acre of said 30 acre field!
Reston I ask is the other week. I watched him try to squeeze his forage harvester and AD trailers past it all day....

 

[Daddy Pig]

Slightly off topic.... well actually very off topic!
Would you donate on say a 99 year lease a small part of your field that is next to primary school? Our local, the parents and teachers have to park on the verge ( well it was once, it’s now a mud pile) yes I know it’s a whole other argument on shouldn’t kids walk to school.
Opposite it( @Pheasant Surprise may know it) is a field. Why doesn’t farmer donate it on a lease and cover it in road plannings? It would only need to be half an acre of said 30 acre field!
Reston I ask is the other week. I watched him try to squeeze his forage harvester and AD trailers past it all day....

yes I would

 

[Daddy Pig]

My Son And Daughter mate a herd of wooden reindeer (approx. 20) last year and sold them at the school gate just before Christmas . they raised over £300 towards a school trip + got lots of brownie points from teachers

 

[A Trebor]

Race night if not had one in the recent past. Did one at village hall on Saturday night and raised about £1600. Do have a professional Bookie helping though that made the night.

 

[TheTallGuy]

Slightly off topic.... well actually very off topic!
Would you donate on say a 99 year lease a small part of your field that is next to primary school? Our local, the parents and teachers have to park on the verge ( well it was once, it’s now a mud pile) yes I know it’s a whole other argument on shouldn’t kids walk to school.
Opposite it is a field. Why doesn’t farmer donate it on a lease and cover it in road plannings? It would only need to be half an acre of said 30 acre field!
Reston I ask is the other week. I watched him try to squeeze his forage harvester and AD trailers past it all day....

Something similar happened near here, but the parents can't be bothered to use the new car park - it's far too complicated to park properly & heaven forbid that they may end up waiting in a queue to get out. Instead they park 8" from the kerb all along the road with no gaps to pull into making it nigh on impossible to safely get past with a car - let alone anything of a decent size.

 

[Highland Mule]

Slightly off topic.... well actually very off topic!
Would you donate on say a 99 year lease a small part of your field that is next to primary school? Our local, the parents and teachers have to park on the verge ( well it was once, it’s now a mud pile) yes I know it’s a whole other argument on shouldn’t kids walk to school.
Opposite it is a field. Why doesn’t farmer donate it on a lease and cover it in road plannings? It would only need to be half an acre of said 30 acre field!
Reston I ask is the other week. I watched him try to squeeze his forage harvester and AD trailers past it all day....

So, you're asking someone to donate £5k of their own assets to the local school, plus probably pay for the road planings/ fencing/ legal fees/ planning fees etc. That would be a very generous donation indeed. If the farmer wasn't directly connected to the school but was prepared to sell the land to a community trust at say £10k/acre, would you be prepared to cough up all the cash yourself, and do all the labour, as that's effectively what you're asking him to do? 99 year lease or sell - I don't see much difference myself, and the land will be permanently taken out of production by the conversion. If the parking is really as bad as you say, it should be the local authorities that you are approaching, not the local landowners.

 

[thesilentone]

Slightly off topic.... well actually very off topic!
Would you donate on say a 99 year lease a small part of your field that is next to primary school? Our local, the parents and teachers have to park on the verge ( well it was once, it’s now a mud pile) yes I know it’s a whole other argument on shouldn’t kids walk to school.
Opposite it is a field. Why doesn’t farmer donate it on a lease and cover it in road plannings? It would only need to be half an acre of said 30 acre field!
Reston I ask is the other week. I watched him try to squeeze his forage harvester and AD trailers past it all day....

Why don't you buy the land, then donate it ?