Cookbook Fundraiser

[~*Niadalla*~]

Hi there!
Just wondering if anyone had done this with their school/kinder?
I'm in charge of looking into it. I am leaning more towards a more professional looking book as opposed to the ones you bind together yourself.
Was wondering if anyone had dealt with any of the online companies that do this and what they thought? I'm currently looking at published authors as the front runner, but would love to hear about any cookbook fundraiser activities that you have participated in and whether or not they were successful.

Cheers.

[Rivlas]

Before you go any further look at the copy right rules. They are a pain in the neck and backside.

You cannot use many recipies for the above reason. I looked into this for our playgroup and decided it was to much work to check if someone has given you one straight out of a printed book.

Sorry to be a pain but after going to a copy right workshop soon learnt that there are many rules and regulations to abide by

[~me~]

Our old creche did one. All recipes were contributed by the families. Some inlcuded photo's of the kids making the dishes or eating the dishes. Each page was on an A4 piece of paper, printed nicely with a border, a photo if inlcuded and which family shared the recipe.
It was put together using those binders that you can turn pages with (sorry, I don't know what they are called). The 'art work' in the book used as borders was designed and drawn by the kinder kids and they also did the front and back cover and varoius little pictures through the book.
It is has been put toghether really well. In sections with a contents page and the recipes have been grouped together such as light meals and snacks an so forth.
Each family that was interested in purchasing one had to pre pay, think it was around $10 mark, not 100% though.
It's a lovely memory to keep.

[LuluHB]

My nephews' school did this last year (or maybe the year before?). I think from memory it was about $30 and the book looked fantastic - really professional, great photos of all the dishes and a fantastic range of recipes from mid-week quickies to desserts, biscuits etc.

They were done on the basis of "Johnny and Jenny's Grandma's Lasagne" sort of thing, so maybe that got around the copyright issues that Rivlas has raised. There is a copyright disclaimer that the recipes are the work of the author, not copied from any other publication etc. They got a fair bit of corporate sponsorship for it I think.