Fundraising ideas help

Hi, our kindy committee is looking for some fresh ideas of ways to fundraise money. (Currently working on putting in heatpumps & fixing up the playground.) We already do an art auction, gala, chocolates, raffles, battens up, pies, & photos. We're thinking of making eco dishwash & washing powder. What's worked for your kindy/school/playgroup etc? Thanks!

The reason I asked is because there's a bookshop in Welly that run evenings where you can charge a gold coin donation and you get a % of the sales on the night. This is while the bookshop provide the wine and nibbles

Other things I've seen done is a Cooking demonstration night, Quiz night, Salsa night, Movie Night, Merino night (know an awesome lady in Whitby who makes fabulous stuff).

Also a wheel-a-thon but probably not until the weather picks up.

I went to a quiz night on friday and they must have made a good sum of money. We paid $15 per person. 8 people to a table and at least 20 tables. For that we got chips and nuts, nachos to share and dessert and a cup of tea and non-alcoholic drinks. It was BYO wine and beer. They ran raffles throughout the night with paddles and a wheel which were $2 ago and each one sold 40 paddles. Must have had at least 10 of these. Donated prizes. So for our $15 we got fed, entertained with the quiz questions and the mc for the night and a bit of fun gambling with the raffle tickets. Started at 7.30 and we got home at 12 so a fun night for not a lot of money and the money raised went to our local school. The desserts were all cakes that the kids and parents had baked and donated.

There is quite a bit of work involved but it was really fun and quite successful.

We're in Stratford, Taranaki. I go to a quiz night every week, I love it, hadn't thought of doing one for kindy, thanks! =)

umm funny money nights used to be good fundraisers too. What about holding talent quest or idol type thing that could work too. Could produce calendars with pictures the kids have made.
Meat raffles, sausage sizzle

Ooh, I think we're trying a disco later this year, I know our school one's do well, I guess one of our biggest problems being in a small town is getting adequate numbers. The bottle auction sounds good, =). The kindy teachers do calendars (I'd forgotten about those!). I'll suggest a talent show type thing- I won't volunteer an act though! =) what's a funny money night?

Yeah we just had a bottle auction night and it was really fun, I would say they made a wee bit too. The parents donated bottles as well as a few other bigger prizes which were donated for the night (weekend away etc).
A whole bunch of little ones were made up for the kids too and each child went home with a wee jar of stuff for $1, the kids had an absolute ball bidding on them!

We do movie nights quite regularly, hire out a small theater.

Trikathon.

Craft Nights.

Fashion Parades through a local clothing shop...

My mum said twilight fairs - parents donate items, pies, make lammingtons, pizzas.

bake sale?

white elephant day... but all money goes to the school?

you could ask around photographers to see if they would be willing to help out the school.... and for example.... charge $75 for a sitting, photographer and school get half, and people pay for photos at a discounted price? (you would be surprised at how many photographers are actually pretty cool like that!) or if you/anyone know of student photographers who want to expand their portfolio? then that would be cool.... then can just set up in a classroom or school hall or something, and the families just move through (all paid for in advance so you know how many people).... each family gets maybe a 20 min sitting.... have a few props... a few things babies can sit in (buckket, chest etc), some boy/girl props (fairy bits n pieces, maybe like a plastic toolkit or something) and a few just nice things for family type pics... i remember one of these waaaaay back when i was at primary school in Brisbane, and was a great idea. also it would be best to do it on a saturday or sunday... if you gets heaps of people wanting to do it, then you could go for the weekend, and have something else during aswell, so that families arent just turning up for a pic and leaving iygwim... maybe pair it with a bake sale?

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