Planning
These useful articles and downloads will help with your fundraising planning. For a comprehensive step-by-step practical guide to coming up with a strategy for your group, check out the Practical Fundraising Handbook for School and Club Volunteers.
How does your P&C manage bookkeeping and inventory?
Here are some suggestions from our Facebook community on how to manage your P&C bookkeeping: As treasurer at a school with 300 students, we jumped on midway last year to Quickbooks.
Movie Nights – hints and tips for success
Movie Nights make a great community event and they can also make you a really great profit. But when it comes to what works and what doesn’t work, well that can often vary from group to group. Here are some hints and tips that will help you in planning a successful outdoor movie night.
How do you add some extra fun into your school colour run?
Reader question: I am looking for ideas on what people have done to make their school colour run more fun??...
How much change do you have for your fete stall floats?
Here is some advice from our Facebook community on arranging your fete stall floats: We gave the bigger stalls eg: food, silent auction a bigger float than the smaller ones.
Any advice on having hot chips at a fundraising event?
Here is some advice on having hot chips at your fundraising event from our Facebook community : We do our own. We had fryers donated and hire an extra one with a warmer. We buy oil, salt, chicken salt, chip cups.
Sausage sizzle catering – how much to order guide
Sausage sizzles can be tricky things to cater. Especially when you’re working on an unknown number of expected attendees at your...
Fundraising Tip – Clean up your fete with a school disco!
School Disco For schools and clubs that hold large events – most commonly a fete – a fantastic idea is...
3 Months To Go | Fete in a Box
< 4 Months To Go | Fete in a Box Home | 2 Months To Go > Hello Fete Warriors! It’s 3 months to...
Does anyone have advice on running a free breakfast club for students?
Our school has a breakfast club run by one of the teachers. It's open from 8.30am-9am and anyone is welcome. We have toast, cereal and juice and all you can eat.
Stall Ideas
Here are some fabulous ideas for stalls that you can have at your Fete. Amusement rides, candle making, stick lotto, stairway to heaven, ring a bottle, lob the dunny roll and many more.
Pirate Theme
Ignite your child’s imagination and let them fly to Neverland with Captain Hook, sail the seven seas with Long John Silver or see the ghostly image of Captain Jack Sparrow by throwing them a themed pirate event.
Ideas for making your event ‘greener’
There is a growing trend to try and make events ‘greener’ (more environmentally friendly). Sometimes it only takes a few little...