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Fundraising ideas

Here are a few ideas to help you get started raising money for Stand Up For Africa.

• Baby photo competition: ask colleagues to bring in baby photos of themselves. People pay to guess who’s who – great fun for everyone, with small prizes for the winners.
• Babysitting and housesitting: offer to look after your friends’ kids, or water the plants when they are away.
• Coffee mornings: organise your friends and have a cake sale – ask a local cookery class or school to help.
• Dress down day: organise a ‘dress down day’ or fancy dress them at work and ask people to pay for the privilege.
• Drinks for the day: offer to make all the tea and coffee at work and ask your colleagues to tip you.
• Events: Organise a raffle at your birthday party or an auction at your sports club. Arrange a stall at the local fair. Run a treasure hunt. Throw a street party with stalls and games (ask the council for permission). Ask a local hairdresser, beautician, masseur or tarot reader to come to your event and donate their tips.
• Give up drinking or smoking: ask people to sponsor you to give up alcohol or smoking. You could abstain for a specified period or give up for good. You could also donate the money you save.
• Hobbies: raise money by selling your handicrafts, giving aromatherapy massages, gardening...
• Merchandise: encourage everyone you know to support SUFA by buying our T-shirts, caps, baby-gros…
• Night out: ask a local restaurant if they will offer a discount if you bring a large party on a weekday evening. The guests pay full price, part of which is their donation to SUFA. You could also organise a raffle and games.
• Neighbours: offer to wash windows, mow the lawn, walk the dog, clean the car.
• Party!: Organise a theme party and sell tickets. Possible themes include 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, beach, favourite celebrity, horror night.
• Place of worship collection: ask your religious leader to request donations for Stand Up For Africa.
• Quiz night: organise a general knowledge or themed quiz at your local pub and charge teams to participate.
• Quiet time: ask a local youth group to do a sponsored silence with you.
• Raffle: ask local businesses to donate prizes.
• Sponsored activities: walk, run, swim, dance, bungee jump, shave your beard...
• Unwanted gifts: ask friends, family, colleagues and neighbours to donate their unwanted Christmas and birthday gifts and use them for raffle prizes or sell them at a car boot sale.
• Wine and cheese party: ask local suppliers to donate wine, cheeses and other specialities. Guests have to guess what they are tasting, where the wine is from, etc. Charge for admission and for entering each game.

Thank you for Standing Up For Africa!

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