Lesson 2: Fundraising ideas for your school

Give children a challenge or fire their imagination and they’ll turn into some of the most motivated fundraisers we’ve seen at Justgiving.

We know kids love using computers and they can be incredibly inventive when it comes to using the Internet to raise funds. Ask them to knock on doors with paper sponsorship forms and you might get short shrift, but give them a set of cool online fundraising tools and just watch them go.

See picture of BRGS pupils undertaking their sponsored walk to raise funds for a new sports hall.

The great news is you don’t have to run marathons to raise money on Justgiving – we’ve got dozens of ideas for ways children can use our service and here are some examples of fun and imaginative challenges people have used to raise funds on Justgiving, take a look at the links below:

Ride rollercoasters
Stage a football match between Heroes and Villains
Put your pet on a diet
Break the DJ Marathon World Record
Writeathon
Danceathon
Taekwondo spar-athon
Eat chilli
Knit
Sit in a bath of baked beans
Be blindfolded for a day
Write poems
Play fancy dress netball
Grow a beard
Dye your hair
Do nothing

And here are some great fundraising pages created by young people:

Cecily’s birthday
Liam’s swimathon
Harry’s tsunami appeal page
Kat dyes her hair (look at how many of Kat’s school friends have sponsored her!)

You can find lots more examples in our Forums here.

If your school has any good ideas for online fundraising campaigns, email us and we'll publicise your campaign to our membership.