The Top 20 Tips on Raising Funds

Not sure how to start fundraising or short of fundraising ideas? The World Land Trust's top fundraising ideas will inspire you to get your fundraising started.

If you have any pictures from fundraising events please email them to us and you could appear in the WLT Hall of Fame.

20 Easy Ways to Fundraise

1. Get Active

Choose something challenging, maybe walking 5 miles, swimming 100 lengths or even eating 50 donuts and get sponsored to do it.

2. Go Casual

Ask your teacher if your class can have a charity 'own-clothes' day and ask everyone to pay £1 to wear his or her own clothes.

3. Grow your Own

Buy a packet of seeds, plant them and let them grow. Then sell the bigger plants for a bigger profit.

4. Get Cultural

Why not ask your teachers to get cultural and sponsor them to sing at school

Get together with friends and hold a recital for your family & neighbours. You could sing songs, play an instrument, recite poems or tell joke.

5. Get Eating

Organise an afternoon tea party at your house. Ask your neighbours to bring cakes, biscuits and drinks, and charge people 50p entrance.

6. Go Without

Give up something you would really miss, like sweets or TV & get people to sponsor you for each day that you manage to go without.

7. Ask Santa

Add 'an acre of rainforest' to your Christmas or birthday list. Just think, how often do you get given 250 trees with lots of animals & birds too?

8. Make a Video

Do your parents own a camcorder? If so, make your own mini wildlife film & charge people to watch.

9. Get Helpful

How many of your neighbours have dogs? Ask them if they would be willing to buy an acre of rainforest in exchange for you walking their dog for two weeks.

10. Make a Snake

Instead of a snake, cover your favourite animal or WLT project country in coins

Organise a money snake. Mark out a long wiggly line 30 metres long, and get people to donate their 2p pieces to complete the money snake. When it is finished, you will have £25 - enough to buy a quarter of an acre of forest.

11. Stop Talking

Hold a sponsored silence. Ask your parents and neighbours to sponsor you to keep quiet! You could ask them to sponsor you for the whole day or per hour.

12. Get Cleaning

Get together with your friends to clean the cars in your neighbourhood for a fee. Or clean the cars in the school car park during lunch hour.

13. Get Baking

Ask your mum to help you and your friends bake some cakes. Then ask your teacher if you can have a bake sale at school during a break.

14. Get Shopping

Do you know an elderly neighbour who you could do odd jobs for? You could offer to do their shopping or other errands for a small donation.

15. Get Selling

Hold a bring and buy sale and donate the money you raise to WLT

Ask your teacher if you could hold a bring-and-buy sale for your class, or even the whole school! Bring in your old toys and books to sell, and donate the profits to saving wildlife.

16. Get Spelling

Organise a sponsored spelling bee for your class, using 'environmental' words.

17. Get Washing

Ask your parents if they would buy an acre of rainforest on your behalf, in exchange for you doing the washing up for two weeks.

18. Come Dancing

Ask your teacher if they can help you organise a school disco, and donate the proceeds to the WLT.

19. Be Creative

Get fashionable by making your own jewellery and then sell it at school

For those talented artists out there; design a Christmas card or other craft that is easy to make lots of, and sell them to your family & friends.

20. Get Fashionable

Ask your parents/friends to donate their old clothes and hold a 'recycled' fashion show for your school or neighbourhood.

Remember to email us any news or photos about fundraising events - we will feature items sent to us in our Fundraising Hall of Fame.