‘Colour me 80s’ Fundraising
Ideas
Fundraising Ideas for In Store
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Encourage customers to buy our 80s-themed, limited-edition trolley key rings: Each store will
be receiving 100 ‘Limited-edition’ 80s-themed trolley key rings to sell. These can be displayed on
your counter tops until stock has sold out. Please ask your teams to encourage your customers to
buy one and support the partnership.
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Ask customers to round-it-up: Such a busy weekend presents the perfect time to invite your
customers to make a donation. Please ask them to ‘Round it Up’ to the nearest £1 / €1 at check out
during the weekend and over the next two weeks.
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Support our volunteers who will be in stores collecting on Saturday 27 July: Hundreds and
hundreds of volunteers will be giving up their own time to collect donations for our charity
partnership. There is a target of £100,000 that we will be able to reach with your support, so please
make the volunteers welcome and let customers know that they are there and encourage them to
donate!
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Dress up in your favourite 80s colour: Fantastic 80s style neon caps will be arriving in stores
shortly, please wear one to help bring the 80s theme to life in your store. If you are feeling creative,
why not dress up in an 80s inspired outfit – trying dressing from head to toe in your favourite neon
colour, or take inspiration from all of the great music in the 1980s and dress as an iconic 80s pop
star.
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80s Tuck shop: Invite colleagues to treat themselves to these 80s favourites… penny sweets,
flying saucers, cherries, black jacks etc and ask them to make a donation for each pack of sweets.
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80s Space Hopper Race: Invite colleagues to enter a thrilling space hopper race with a prize for
the winner. Each person pays to enter and could even ask friends and colleagues to sponsor them
via their justgiving page. Participants will need to supply their own space hopper which they could
personalise for race day!
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80s Air Guitar Super Star: Hold a guitar competition on a popular games console in store. Ask
contestants to make a donation to enter and provide a prize for the winner!
Out of Store Fundraising Ideas
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80s Quiz: Hold an 80s themed quiz night for colleagues, friends and family. We can provide you
with a question sheet just call the hotline on +44 (0) 845 678 7678.
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Organise a karaoke or movie night: Ask locally if you can hire a function room and hold an 80s
night full of 80s music or screen a classic 80s movie. Ask people to make a donation to attend and
get everyone dressing up to really get into the 80s spirit.
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Sign up for one of our challenge events: Take your inspiration from Olivia Newton John and get
physical! Go to http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=2133 to
search all of our challenge events, there is something for everyone whether you are a daredevil or
prefer to do something at a slower pace!
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80s Disco Night: Why not organise a classic 80s night and invite all your colleagues and their
family and friends. Try and get a venue for free, and select the biggest 80 tunes to play throughout
the night. Donate the money you raise from ticket sales to the charity.
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‘Fame’ Talent Competition: Feeling inspired by this 80s movie classic? Organise a ‘Fame’ themed
talent competition and invite your colleagues to enter. Donate the money from ticket sales to the
charity.
Materials to help you fundraise
We have various fundraising materials to help you in store and you can order these from our hotline by
emailing [email protected] or you can call us on +44 (0) 845 678 7678. We have also set up
dedicated pages on our website to give you fundraising ideas and support with all your events. Please
have a look at alzheimers.org.uk/80s This can now be accessed from the store PCs.
Materials available – posters, banners, balloons, stickers, t-shirts, collection tins, collection buckets and pin
badges
Please note all materials have a cost attached to them so only order what you need for your store.
Share your Good News and Photos
We want to hear how the 80s week has gone for you. Share any interesting stories with us, how much did
your store raise? Was there a stand out costume one of your colleagues wore? Did an event or fundraising
initiative go better than you had hoped? What are your future fundraising plans?
It would be great to see any photos from your events. Why not be creative and make them as original as
possible, with people wearing comedy items or action shots going on in store. Get the partnership logo in
the shot where possible.
Send your photos to us at [email protected] and [email protected]. A great way of
sharing your photos with other stores, and to show all the brilliant fundraising you are doing!
Please remember to obtain line manager approval for all fundraising activity.