With school budgets even tighter than ever and school events limited by social distancing, chances are your library fundraising is needed now more than ever. Here are some simple ideas to which you could run to increase and improve your book selection at school.
Book - Related Ideas
1. Run a sponsored read - see step by step how one school in Birmingham raised over £3,000
2. Run a bookfair - See Usborne and Scholastic options
3. Create a school booklist. Each child in every class completes this sentence - "I love [book title] because...." and sell the booklist for £1 each
4. Run a second hand book fair with donations from families
5. Blind date with a book - get every child to bring in a book wrapped in plain paper and write a post it note on the front saying who would enjoy it.
Anytime of Year - easy peasy
6. Home-clothes day
7. Colouring Competition
8. Sponsored silence
9. Crazy outfit/hair competition - £1 to enter with prizes to win
10. Send children home with a smarties tube and ask them to fill it with 20p and £1 coins
11. Guess the teddy's name or the number of sweets in a jar
12. Ask each class to fill a container with coins with a small prize for the class that raises the most
13. Break the Rules Day - 50p for each rule broken (!)
14. Film night with snacks for each class or year
Anytime of Year - a little more effort
15. Online Auction - ask families to donate goods or experiences
16. Raffle - ask families to donated goods or experiences, then sell tickets
17. Jumble sale with a small fee to put up a table
18. Bingo - small entry fee with prizes to win
19. Run a sponsored walk/ fun run
20. Create a school calendar with pictures of each child/year and get local businesses to sponsor
21. Virtual Quiz
22. Bags 2 School - raise funds through recycling donated clothes
23. Window display trail - families set up a window display at home and groups follow a map to spot each one (small fee to take part)
24. Run a school disco
25. Run a 100 Club - members pay a small monthly fee for a monthly prize draw
26. Decorate a tea towel - children create artwork that's printed onto tea towels and sold to families
27. Sponsored bike/scooter ride
28. Art competition with prizes for the best piece in each class/year
29. Crufts style competition - prize for the cutest/best behaved dog
30. Run a small shop at pick up for crafts, clothes and uniform
31. Collect old clothes and sell to recycling organisations by weight
32. Partner with local estate agents who pay per signed displayed outside homes
33. Virtual balloon race
34. Hot chocolate and popcorn stand at the school gate
35. Run a Bake-Off competition
36. School Lottery - See Your School Lottery
37. Put together a book of favourite recipes and sell it
Guy Fawkes
38. Organise a Treasure Trail around the local community (e.g. pictures in windows) and sell the maps
39. Competition to create the best 'guy' and send in photos
40. Set up a hot chocolate and marshmallow stall
41. Drive-in Firework display
Christmas
42. Christmas Hamper Raffle
43. Children create Christmas Cards to sell as packs to parents
44. Sponsored Carol Singing
45. Record and sell DVDs of the school's panto/nativity play/music evening/carol concert
46. Decorate a Christmas tree bauble and sell at school
47. Ask families to fill a jar with small items from home to sell at school
48. Santa's Grotto
49. Design and Sell Letters from Santa to help busy parents
50. Christmas crafts/wreath-making evening
51. Source and sell Christmas trees to parents
52. Create a cracker and fill with a small present and sell
53. Auction off an 'Acts of Kindness' advent calendar
Anytime of Year - commission
54. Set up an Amazon Gift List
55. Easyfundraising - money back everytime somebody clicks through and shops online
56. Start a Just Giving page and tell people what you're fundraising for and share the link in the newsletter
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