Browse through some of our favourite fundraising ideas to get your imagination going. Some are full scale events and others are simple ideas you can ask your friends and family to pledge sponsorship for.

If you need any advice, sponsor forms or other materials to help you set up your event, do not hesitate to email the Events team or call us on 0845 345 1972.

Don't forget we have lots more ideas in our sponsorship pack!

A is for...

• Aerobics or a sponsored workout
• Auction things 

B is for...

• Bad taste party
• Badminton tournament
• BBQ
• Bath in baked beans (or jelly!)
• Bring and buy sale
• Bungee jump
• Bike ride
• Birthday collection

C is for...

• Cabaret night
• Cake making
• Coffee morning
• Car boot sale
• Car wash
• Craft fair
• Cheese and wine party
• Comedy night

D is for...

• Dance marathon
• Drum n bass night
• Demonstrations (whatever you like – cake icing, flower arranging, dancing...)
• Dinner dance
• Disco dancing competition
• Duck race (adopt a duck for Vitalise in the Great British Duck Race!)
• Dragon boat racing

E is for...

• Egg and spoon race
• Eurovision night sweepstake

F is for...

• Face painting
• Flower arranging
• Fancy dress night
• Fashion show
• Film night 
• Fun run
• Five-a-side football
• Fantasy football

G is for...

• Garage sale
• Golf tournament
• Grand National sweepstake
• Garden party
• Go carting
• Give something up (smoking, chocolate - the harder it is the more money you can raise!)

H is for...

• Half marathon
• Home-made goods sale
• Halloween party
• Harvest supper
• Head shave

I is for...

• Ironman challenge
• Ice skating competition
• It’s a knockout
• Indoor games evening

J is for...

• Jazz evening
• Jogging
• Jigsaw marathon
• Jumble sale
• Job swapping

K is for...

• Karaoke
• Knitting
• Karate demonstration

L is for...

• Lawn mowing
• Long distance walk/cycle
• Lunch party
• Loose change amnesty
• London Marathon

M is for...

• Make up party
• May fair
• Marathon
• Market stall
• Murder mystery party
• Monopoly board pub crawl (be sure to pace yourselves!)
  

N is for...

• Nearly new sale
• No suit/uniform day
• Newspapers - be sure to let your local paper know about your efforts!
  

O is for...

• One day fast
• Own clothes day
• One price for everything stall
  

P is for...

• Painting/drawing competition
• Photography exhibition
• Plant sale
• Pancake race
• Pram race
• Pantomime
• Penalty shoot-out
• Pub quiz
  

Q is for...

• Quiz night

R is for...

• Race night/afternoon
• Raffle
• River boat trip
• Raft racing
• Rugby match
• Running

S is for...

• Sports day
• Scavenger hunt
• Story telling
• Scrabble evening
• Summer fair
• Sixties / seventies night
• Sunflower growing
• Swear box
• Softball match
• School disco
• Santa’s grotto
• Sponsored anything (get creative!)
  

T is for...

• Table top sale
• Tombola
• Talent night
• Tea dance
• Teddy bear’s picnic
• Trampolining
• Treasure hunt
• Tennis tournament
• Themed dinner party
• Three-legged race
• Trivial pursuit challenge
• Tug of war
  

U is for...

• Uniform-free day

V is for...

• Valentine party
• Volleyball competition

W is for...

• Water aerobics
• Wind surfing
• Wheelbarrow race
• Window cleaning
• Walking
• Whist drive
• Wine tasting
• Whitewater rafting 

X is for...

• Xmas fair/party
• Xylophone performance
• X-treme sports

Y is for...

• Yard of ale competition

Z is for...

• Zip sliding

And finally, remember...

• Get creative
• Have fun
• Let people know
• Raise as much as you can!

Thank you and good luck!