FUNDRAISING – Christmas quick wins
Christmas quick wins ❄Sponsored
Looking for an easy way to boost the coffers this Christmas? Try one of these festive fundraising ideas
Santa Run
Hold a sponsored festive fun run in aid of the PTA. Ask children and parents to come in a Santa hat, elf hat, reindeer antlers or even full-blown Christmas fancy dress, and run around the local park, school fi eld or playground. Be sure to round off the event with a well-earned mince pie and hot drink for all participants at the end of the course. Boost takings by getting a parent who’s a photographer to offer professional shots of the kids in their costumes, or even hold a fancy dress competition after the fun run.
❅Grotto or Grinch For those who still believe, a
visit to Father Christmas in his grotto is a time-honoured tradition that must, of course, be upheld. But
what about the older kids who’ve already sussed out Santa and are too cool to care? For the non-believers, offer the option of a tête-à-tête with the Grinch in his cave instead. The famed icon of Christmas cynicism can offer up his gifts begrudgingly, while providing hilarious off- message chat.
❄Snowball fi ght
What child can resist the opportunity to make an unholy mess in the name of Christmas? Buy hundreds of cheap, fake snowballs or pompoms, place them in buckets
❅Letters
around the school hall or canteen, and charge a small fee to let the kids chuck them at each other. Control the chaos with designated ten-minute slots for different year groups, and make sure that pupils tidy up after themselves in return for a candy cane at the end of each session.
from Santa
Clever use of mail merge will fi ll your children’s hearts with wonder – and your PTA’s bank account with money. Create a template letter from the big guy (you can fi nd examples online) and personalise info such as the child’s name, age and desired present. To save money on postage, ask parents to collect the letters from the school offi ce, or send them home in pupils’ bookbags, cleverly hidden in a plain envelope addressed to their parents. Charge a small amount for each letter and make sure no child is excluded by asking those who can afford it to ‘pay it forward’.
School Fundraising AUTUMN 2025 27
BY NUALA CALVI
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