Fundraising
QUICK AND EASY CHRISTMAS SCHEMES
Bauble-decorating
competition Pupils pay £1 per (shatterproof) bauble to enter the competition. Give them two weeks to decorate and return with a name tag attached. Hang each year group’s baubles on a small tree and ask the Headteacher to judge, awarding prizes for the best per year and an overall winner. Send baubles home with pupils on the last day of term.
Coin trail Ask pupils to bring in silver coins
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place Christmas-y questions around the school grounds, plotting their location on a map (vaguely or with clues to make it harder). Provide the map to players, who must find the questions and write down the answers. For extra difficulty, have the first letter of each answer spell a festive word. Parents can take part and players can participate in teams of up to five. Finished maps are handed in for a prize. Have refreshments in the school hall afterwards. Charge £4-£5 per team depending on prizes.
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Printed products A fundraising Christmas card project is quick and
simple to run while tying into the curriculum and placing minimal
Gingerbread house competition Invite children to stay after school to build a gingerbread house, and welcome parents to ensure there’s enough help for
construction. Buy the kits in bulk and include them in the ticket price, making sure this gives a good profit. Children make the houses on-site to be judged at the end, and can then take them home. For younger siblings or as an addition, ask local bakeries or parents for donations of biscuits. Fill squeezy bottles with coloured icing and provide sweets and sprinkles so children can decorate them. Charge £1 per biscuit.
on a specific day and give each class a large outline of a festive image to fill up with the coins, i.e. a Christmas pudding or Santa hat. Get everyone to do this in the school hall or outside to bring all year groups together.
Christmas matchbox
Moonlit hunt Hold it after school, once it’s dark, and
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demand on teachers’ time. Pupils create artwork to a specific format, then you send order forms home, collect payments and distribute orders. Expect to raise £1-£3 per pack sold. Make sure finished cards will be distributed
with enough time for parents to post them before international
delivery deadlines. Alternatively, how about a tea
towel covered in self-portraits from the whole school? You can print around 300 pictures on a tea towel, so for larger schools you could look into doing them for each key stage.
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Bespoke Christmas puddings Sadly, after 32 years of
helping PTAs and schools fundraise with their range of scrumptious festive puddings, Ultimate Plum Pudding has closed its factory and
challenge Bulk-buy matchboxes and give one to each child, together with a sponsor form and letter challenging them to fit as many festive items in the box as they can, i.e. anything red or green, sparkly things, a piece of ribbon, a square of wrapping paper, etc. Award a prize for the most items collected, and for extra fun ask pupils to decorate their box, with a prize for the best.
Silver Smarties Give out tubes of Smarties and
then ask your ‘little elves’ to complete tasks for family and friends to earn 20ps to fill the empty tube. Offer a festive reward for the most collected.
no longer offers a fundraising service. Fear not, though! New company Goodness Baked is offering a fundraising service for schools, and will be producing personalised 454g Christmas puddings for 2018, with plans to roll out additional flavours and sizes in 2019. Expect to make around £3 profit per pudding. For more information, visit
goodnessbaked.co.uk.
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