Have any fundraising ideas? please help?

PLEASE HELP. Fundraising/Sponsorship ideas?!?!?

• Please help me out :) I have about 8 months, to fund-raise a major total of £1200 -which is half of the total cost - So that I can go on the expedition of a lifetime... to Africa (: I'm 14 years old, so please bare that in mind (: Any ideas for raising this money, would be much appreciated (: I would also like some ideas of how I could get lots of sponsorships (: Thanks (: Beth x

• Answer:

  Hi Beth, There are loads of Fundraisers that you could do. Start with simple straight forward donation requests from your friends and family. Maybe consider doing some form of challenge for people to sponsor you. Two years ago I did a Sponsored Cycle challenge where I raised 2,000 pounds in a couple of weeks to help pay for my film school tuition. I decided what cycle I was going to do, and then started contacting all my friends, family and other contacts requesting small sponsorships for the cycle. I started a facebook page and invited all my friends to join and then asked them to sponsor me. I had set up a PayPal account to accept donations online. I got loads of donations coming from friends on facebook. I then also printed off a whole load of donation sheets which I then went around to all the local pubs and malls, speaking to people and asking them to sponsor my cycle! It was a good success. You should read this page about "Taking to the streets" fundraising idea... http://www.rewarding-fundraising-ideas.com/free-fundraiser-ideas.html ...it might give you some good ideas. Other than that you could do any type of food fundraiser or fundraising event. Have a look through the list of fundraisers page listed underneath the source...