Download the mindmap and use the handy hyperlinks below.
Affiliate schemes
- Name labels
- Shopping affiliates
- Cookies
- Support your local economy – Ask nearby businesses if they would be interested in an affiliate scheme
Classroom
- Virtual book fair
- Matchbox challenge – Ask participants to photograph their items if they aren’t allowed to bring them into school
- Classroom/bubble cinema
- Joke books – Compile pupils’ favourite jokes. If commercial printing isn’t viable, print as a booklet on A4 and sell for £1
- Sponsored read/spell/read-a-thon/times table challenge
Funding
- Gift Aid
- Grants
- Regular donations
- Automatic donations
- Match funding
Leavers
- Hoodies – Order early in the year to allow leavers more opportunities to wear their hoodies
- Yearbooks
- Autograph books
Local area
- Treasure hunt/quiz
- Scarecrow trail
- Easter egg hunt
- Front garden sale
- Geocaching
- Winter lanterns – Light up the dark days of winter. Provide families with a lantern-making kit with simple instructions and choose an evening after school for the trail to take place. Participants can tick off each lantern on a trail map, which they print at home. Offer prizes for the most creative lanterns
Lotteries
- 100 club
- School lottery
- Online raffle
- Online silent auction
- Text raffle
- Raffles
Outdoors
- Individual walking challenge
- Individual sponsored bike ride
- Socially distanced relay
- Individual climb a mountain
- Individual fun run
- Group challenge – ‘Walk to another country’. Take the number of pupils in the school and multiply by how many miles you think each might walk. Select a country that distance away. Tie the challenge in with learning about the country or cooking its dishes in school
Own clothes
- Non-uniform day
- Dress up or down day
- Break the rules/Dare to be different day – Compile a list of school rules the children are allowed to break for one day. A fine must be paid for each rule broken.
- Pyjama day
- World Book Day – dressing up
PE and gym
- Sponsored bunny hop for Easter – Set up an activity circuit, then ask the children (bunnies) to get sponsorship based on how many circuits they complete
- Dance-a-thon – Can pupils dance for a whole hour? Or two? Hold in bubbles and award prizes individually and for the best classes
Products
- Tea towels, bags, aprons, water bottles, mugs, key fobs – Go down the traditional route of using children’s drawings or find a local artist who is willing to create artwork especially for your school
- Lanyards
- Bears
Recycling
- Ink cartridges
- CDs/DVDs
- Textile recycling
- Pens
- Sell second-hand goods
- Second-hand uniform online or socially distanced sale
Virtual events
- Gin/wine tasting
- Music bingo
- Virtual race night
- Virtual theatre show
- Online disco
- Online quiz
- Afternoon tea
- Online workshop
- Online art show
- Online courses – Ask a local provider if they can offer a course for your community and share the profits
Further inspiration
Not sure what events to hold? See our event planning calendar for inspiration.