Award Winners
Fundraising Company of the Year 2022
People’s Choice Award 2022
Customer Service Award 2022
Best New Fundraiser Award 2022
Best Eco-Friendly Award 2022
Fundraising Company of the Year 2022
Winner – School Fun Run – The Fundraising Group
We’ve been assisting schools for 35 years. We are proud to have been awarded fundraising company of the year from 2016 to 2022.
School Fun Run raises $20,193 on average. 86,252 is the average amount raised by our top 10 schools Collectively, our schools will raise over $13 million this year. Any school, of any size, anywhere (in Australia or New Zealand) can hold a school fun run. It’s 100% self-funding with no financial risk and no products to sell.
Our mission is to make happy kids and proud parents. In practical terms, we’re committed to making magic memories for school communities and raising enough profit to leave a real legacy at their school.
Our aim is to continue leading the school fundraising industry through innovation, trade partnerships, and charity support.
Runner Up – Expressions
At Expressions we love eco-friendly, long lasting and practical products that offer a healthy and enduring alternative for fundraising that won’t be thrown away.
We specialise in customised tea towels, aprons and bags, designed using children’s drawings which we compile and print to create cherished family keepsakes of childhood friends and teachers, much like a yearbook on a tea towel. These mementos are then offered with a margin on top to loved ones, raising valuable dollars for schools, childcare centres and clubs.
People’s Choice Award 2022
Winner – School Ponytails
The Fundraise with Bows program by School Ponytails brings practical, pride-boosting fundraising to your school or sports club through the sale of hair accessories in your uniform colours.
Your community shops online or on order forms, and we supply classic styles to suit all uniform policies. Just pop your unique fundraising code in the checkout and we know to send 20% back at the end of term: it’s as easy as that! Custom colours and orders are welcome too.
Don’t forget the athletics carnival and sports events: our bright and colourful range of products for girls and boys in House and Faction colours means that everyone can get involved, and proudly wear the team colours. With Australia’s largest range of carnival colours in-stock and ready to ship, carnival day becomes much easier to organise for parents!
Runner Up – Showbags.com.au
The perfect fundraising solution for any event, including sporting clubs, book fairs, sports days, silent auctions, sponsor walk-a-thons, childcare and kindergartens, Mothers and Father’s Day and school fetes.
We stock a huge range of showbags that are perfect for fundraising, with themes ranging from chocolate and confectionery to toys and games.
Customer Service Award 2022
Winner – Expressions
At Expressions we love eco-friendly, long-lasting, and practical products that offer a healthy and enduring alternative for fundraising that won’t be thrown away.
We specialise in customised tea towels, aprons, and bags, designed using children’s drawings which we compile and print to create cherished family keepsakes of childhood friends and teachers, much like a yearbook on a tea towel. These mementos are then offered with a margin on top to loved ones, raising valuable dollars for schools, childcare centres and clubs.
Our projects are easy to run, everything is supplied, and everybody loves them.
We provide premium quality, 100% organic certified, ethically sourced products and have run over 25,000 unique fundraisers, growing annually since 1998. After two decades of happy customers, we’re so proud to have helped 1000’s of grassroots organizations, from tiny remote communities to big city schools. Our products have become a tradition and can be found in millions of kitchens and keepsake boxes in every corner of Australia and all over the world.
Runner Up – Colour Blast
A Colour Blast fun run event is one that students, staff, organisers, and volunteers love and look forward to. It encourages both physical activity while building school and club camaraderie.
The Colour Blast fundraising program is offered to schools and clubs across Australia. A Colour Blast fundraising event has proven to provide an excellent opportunity for schools and clubs to raise the funding required for various fundraising initiatives in a single event.
Best New Fundraiser Award 2022
Winner – Colour Blast
Colour Blast offers each school a campaign manager who is dedicated to assisting the school with relevant tasks along the course of its fundraising campaign.
We apply ‘systemology’ to our processes to ensure each school or club is supported in the best, most efficient way possible. From registration to fundraising settlement we have systems and processes in place to support and guide our schools and clubs toward their fundraising goals.
On top of this, we offer an extensive range of campaign inclusions to schools and clubs. Participants take home packs, motivational posters, promotional posters, communication templates, social media advertising graphics, plus more!
Runner Up – My School Lunch
My School Lunch Fundraiser is different to your normal fundraiser. Traditionally meal deal fundraisers have taken a lot of work from committees to plan, negotiate and execute the meal deal. We have taken all of that process and done it for schools.
We have built a free online platform for schools to use and in addition we organise the meal deal with local restaurants to keep the business local. We supply free marketing materials and on the delivery day, we even deliver all orders pre-sorted into class groups. We can distribute 1000 order in 15 minutes!
Best Eco-Friendly Award 2022
Winner – Expressions
At Expressions we love helping schools and grassroots community organisations by providing popular, eco-friendly, long-lasting and practical fundraising products. Our products offer a sustainable healthy alternative to food fundraisers and other single-use options that won’t be thrown away. All our products are manufactured specifically for us from ethically grown GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) certified 100% organic cotton.
Our screen-printing inks are 100% environmentally friendly, 100% solvent, PVC and phthalate free with approval from the Soil Association, having successfully met the requirements of GOTS for use in organic textile processing. Eco-friendly ink is also used for our colour prints in our industrial printer to give worldwide Oeki-Tex 100 certification which is globally accepted for infant and baby wear.
We use Hero Packs to send out all our free kits. They look and feel like plastic, but they are 100% home- compostable shipping mailers.
We provide Australian-certified eco-friendly compostable parent order bags for our clients to easily pack and distribute their precious keepsakes, so they get home safely. We supply over 150,000 of these customised compost-a-pack bags annually. Just another way we’re helping reduce our carbon footprint.
Runner Up – Good to Grow
Our Good to Grow fundraiser offers sustainable fundraising that all the family can experience and enjoy! Caring for the environment and your own health doesn’t get any better than this – with delicious and fresh produce the result – being grown in your own garden and harvested locally every day!
This year we have introduced a larger range – including organic vegetable seed packs, herb seed packs, propagation kits, and great gift ideas.
