Fundraising for preschools, mothers groups & kindergartens

[sandrag]

Hi

I have been keeping my eyes open for fundraising ideas for some time now of which most seem to be too much hard work and not a lot of fun. Anyway i was pointed in the direction of boscobear- a website that sells some great kids wall art, personalised labels and lots of other fun stuff - well i love it. Anyway i have requested some more information on fundraising so i will post back to let you know how it works. I think the trick is for this sort of thing is to find a good fun product that appeals to a wide range of people and has good commission. Beware there is a lot of rubbish out there, i have a couple more sites to check out so i will be back later hopefully with a couple more ideas. Let me know if any one else has some good ideas.

Sandy

[briggsy's girl]

bulbs!! might be getting late for this year, but garden express do bulb fundraising and you get 50% of the money

cookie dough - not sure of profit margin but YUM

spc bulk packs - not sure of the profit again, but huge sellers around here - cant wait for my niee to ring and say its on again!

[rose]

just a note on spc, you have to pay freight and if you have a small order it is often cheeper to go pick it up yourself or you need to have a supstansial order to make it worth while. Also they have been cutting their list down from what they used to have available. Still check them out, we used to use them but have had a year off due to the above reasons.

I am looking for some ideas too as I am involved in our local Toy Library.

[deccydoo]

Hi All,

thank you for the fantastic information and thought starters so far. Sandy G if you can tell me more about BoscoBear i would be keen to know. They do children's labels? is that all? Is there a website that they have that i can look at? Do you know what percentage sales/commissions they work on? Also what is wall art? Do you design your own children's art and raise money? Sorry so many questions just trying to pre-empt what my group will say.

Triallian, likewise is there any websites that i can look at for the Mango and the Cherry fundraisers. Is there a website that i can look further at that you know of?

thank you!

[Nai]

I head up the fundraising portfolio for our Childcare Centre and the most successful things we have done include an Auction Night, hot cross bun & pie drive and a wine drive.

We did the wine drive before Christmas and raise almost $2K for the centre with really minimal work. There are companies that do it through a website but we did it ourselves in conjunction with our local cleanskins place - this meant that they had their largest order ever and we made a lot of money. Everyone is asking when the next one is

We decided on the activities that we would do by surveying the parent community. I did a survey using Survey Monkey (which is a free online tool) that was emailed out to the parents and from the responses we put together a schedule of events for the year so that parents can see what activities are going on when.

[Trillian]

Not sure how you go about organising the mango ones, but with the cherries, we just rang our nearest cherry grower and they were happy to oblige. I assume the mango ones would be the same, or even if you contacted a local fruit and vege market.


Google 'fundraising ideas' and you will get tonnes of links.

[mrsmac]

We had a "Purple pie drive" not sure if they still exist but it was great.