Thank you for raising money for RICE!
Whether you’re participating in an organised event or taking up
your own personal challenge, the aim of the game is to raise
money to support RICE in our work to fight dementia.
You can raise money by asking friends, family and work
colleagues by filling out a Sponsor Form or even creating your
own on-line Fundraising Page. But you can also make the whole
experience more fun by involving others and holding money
raising events and activities. If you’re wondering how to do it,
below are 65 inventive ideas to give you inspiration!
Employer matched giving
If you haven't already asked your employer to sponsor you,
now is a great time to do so! Many companies agree to match
any money raised as part of their corporate responsibility.
There’s no harm in asking if your business will do the same!
If you need any help or advice about which event to become
involved in or further advice on raising sponsorship the please
do not hesitate to contact me,
Gina Caddick (Fundraiser at RICE)
[email protected] / 01225 476435
RICE Sponsor Forms and On-line Fundraising instructions on request
The Research Institute for the Care of Older People
The RICE Centre, Building 8, RUH, Bath, BA1 3NG
www.rice.org.uk / [email protected] / 01225 476420
Registered Charity
Number: 1042559
65 Fundraising ideas
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Organise a Chinese style evening!
Hold a bring and buy sale
Clean windscreens at your local garage
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Stage a fashion show
Hire yourself out as a chef
Get each of your friends to fill a bottle with coins
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Have a giant Christmas party
Set up a Tombola
Pump up tyres at your local cycling club
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Clean your neighbours’ cars
Ask your company to match every pound you
raise
Shave off your beard/moustache/hair/leg/chest
hair
Go carol singing
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Have a lucky dip
Ask your local rail station if you can collect money on
their concourse
Eat cold baked beans with a cocktail stick
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Arrange a sponsored bell-ring at your local church
Cycle an exercise bike in your shopping centre
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Make sandwiches for the office
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Hold an auction of items donated by local business
Organise a Valentine’s Day party
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Ask for donations instead of Christmas cards and
presents
Hold a Beautiful Dog competition
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Busk in the high street
Collect a pint pot of pennies in your pub
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Sweep autumn leaves from gardens
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Have a car boot sale
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Cut your neighbours’ lawns
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Baby sit for friends
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Have a cheese and wine party
Hold a coffee morning
Collect all the loose change from behind your
friends’ sofas
Stop smoking/swearing/any other vice for 24
hours
Have a Monopoly/Charades/bingo evening
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Put a swear box in the office
Do your friends’ grocery shopping
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Challenge your friends to Trivial Pursuit - with forfeits
Have a squash tournament
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Guess the number of sweets in a jar
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Put a sponsor appeal as a screen saver at work
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Hold a talent contest
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Sell your plant cuttings
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Have a sponsored clean
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Have a karaoke contest
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Hold a crossword competition
Hold a raffle at work
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Organise a talk by a local celebrity
Arrange a pub quiz
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Hold a collection at your local supermarket or shopping
street
Have a theme party
Clean all your friends’ boots and shoes
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Organise a musical evening
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Organise a musical evening
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Collect books door-to-door and have a sale
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Have a biscuit bake-in and sell the results
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Do a sponsored silence
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Ask everyone at work to give you his or her small
change
Ask your company if you can approach their suppliers
for sponsorship
Calculate the weight of a cake
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Hold a darts evening or ten-pin bowling challenge
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Organise a bring and buy sale
Wrap presents (Xmas, any occasion) in something you
have at home, old
Home-made or Email Christmas cards, with a photo of a parachute jump saying 'Money in lieu of your Xmas card
has gone to RICE'
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Use magazines etc.; to wrap and attach a home-made
label to present saying 'Money in lieu of wrapping paper
has been given to RICE.'
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