Cool summer fundraising ideas?

I need a lot of money! Fundraising ideas?

• I've had a dream since I was six years old to be able to go to another country to help children in poverty, and help to rebuild rainforests, even if it's on a minor scale. I watched the programme 'Serious Amazon' on CBBC, where kids actually got to do this, and they learned how to live in the wild in the Amazon rainforest. I waited till I was 12 to sign up, as there was an age restriction, and was heartbroken to find out that that was the year the series stopped. I'm 14 now, and someone from a company called Camps International came in to talk to us about an expedition they're running next Summer to Borneo, where we can go for 4 weeks, and physically rebuild schools, teach English, play sports with the kids there, replant trees into the forests, and learn to live in the rainforest. It's my dream come true! There's one catch. It costs £3960. That's the equivalent of £65 a week as we're expected to raise this money through funding in the next year! My parents have agreed to give me £10 a week if I clean the whole house. I'm going to ask everyone to give me money instead of presents for the two birthdays and Christmas I have before the money has to be raised by. I'm going to busk for 4 hours every other Saturday, as long as it doesn't get in the way of revision. I've cleared out my room of all the things I don't use regularly and can live without, like my hair dryer, my DSi, my old phones, Wii, some of my books, CDs, scarves, shoes I don't wear etc. and I'm taking them to a car boot sale. I filled 5 bin bags so it should go okay. I'm doing a sponsored 5k run in a panda suit. I'm doing a sponsored double all nighter with live Internet coverage. My school will help me and the eight others wanting to go on the trip by doing a non uniform day, which should raise us a good couple of hundred pounds each. I've estimated all this to amount to somewhere round the £2800 mark. So I still have over £1100 to raise! How should I do it? Are there any good fundraising techniques? Things I could get involved with? Fundraising ideas? I can't do a bake sale because I'm rubbish at baking! I could work with other people wanting to go to run a club at a school nearby, but what club?

• Answer:

  You know there are organizations that do exactly what you are talking about they exist and you don't have to go to these International Camps give it 4 more years and you can join Peace Corp or any of a dozen international organizations that will help you out. Fundraisers are not for individuals, usually they are for sick kids and their families, or to prevent some disease that kills a lot of people. The oly other think you can do is take a part time job but at your age it would take 4 years to save up that much!