Raise money
Fundraise for Christian Aid Week 2008
This year, why not start your own fundraising event? On this page, we've listed some ideas for things you can do.
When you've decided what you're going to do, click the button below. This will take you to the Christian Aid Week page on Justgiving. Enter in your details and you're ready to go! Happy Fundraising!
Small sized event ideas
- Pyjama party - get your colleagues to turn up at work in their jim jams.
- Get your head shaved in public
- Hold a oatcake eating competition
- Get your body waxed
- Hold a non-uniform day
- Set up a face painting session
- Make a food hamper up to be won at a raffle
- Sponsored silence
- Hold a three legged race at work
- Get people to donate everytime they use the loo
- Find stuff in the loft and sell it on ebay
- Hold a Christian Aid Week dress down or dress up day.
- Get sponsored to sit in a tub of baked beans
- Job swap - get sponsored to swap jobs for the day.
- Spelling test - Look through the dictionary and come up with a list of difficult and complicated words to test yourself and others on
- A great way to learn new words and raise money at the same time.
- Get sponsored to give up TV for a week or part with your beloved PS2 or Xbox.
- Get your relatives to sponsor you to help them out, for example with the vacuuming, washing the car, washing the dishes, walking the dog and the food shopping.
- Keep fit-athon - get sponsored by the hour for a day of exercise!
- Letter day/party - base your activities, dress code and food around a specific letter from the alphabet.
- Matched giving - How about asking your company to match the money raised - they could "match give" a particular activity during the event
- Penny chain- collect coppers and see if they can stretch to a mile!
- Everyone bring their favourite board game and have an afternoon of reliving your childhood.
Medium sized event ideas
- Hold a gunge session - colleagues pay to vote which boss they see want gunged
- Football/Rugby/Hockey Tournament
- Tug of War
- Sponsored Walk
- Curry Night
- Garden Party
- Coffee morning
- Tea Party
- Quiz Night - download QuizAid for your instant pub quiz
- 24 hour singathon
- Bike ride
- Art Competition where you charge a fee to view the displayed work
- Clothes swapping party
- Car boot sale
- Karaoke
- Treasure Hunt
- World food night - prepare a selection of dishes from around the world and charge a fee to enjoy them
Large event ideas
- Murder mystery party
- Black tie dinner
- Disco
- Barn Dance
- Music Festival - ask local groups to perform
- Get in the Guinness Book of Records doing something. How far can you unicycle in 24 hours? How many trees you can plant across the world at the same time? The world's largest orchestra?