Ugh, fundraising annoys me. I don't mind so much if it's for a decent reason, but I really would prefer they just upped the fees a bit and knocked off the fundraising other than a few large events each year.
Funnily enough the one that irritates me the most is actually my work social club, as they have near constant fundraising which is generally used to subsidise work sundowners that I very rarely attend as they're always on Friday afternoons when I want to get home to my family. Or for the work Christmas do, which is always employees only and no partners/kids so I tend to skip out on that one too.
I have my charities I support, and I don't mind tossing the odd bit of change etc into a tin if I have it on-hand but other than that I tend to refuse to participate and let people call me a grinch.
Between the school, kinder and playgroup there is almost something on all year round. I feel like paying them all $50 at the start of the year and being done with it
We don't like to do too much fundraising at work. Usually we do three things per year. We are doing a goose club now (donated by businesses in community) so parents are asked (but not expected) to sell a book of tickets, then we do a giant hamper at Christmas (parents bring in one or two items) and they sell a book of tickets, the 3rd thing is toy catalogues - which parents purchase items from (usually some great things in them) and we earn 20% vouchers to spend.
We did use to do far more, but felt we needed to scale it back and stop asking parents to contribute so much.
I don't agree with chocolate/lolly fundraisers when we are always harping on about healthy eating, would seem quite hypocritical!
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