Halloween
Needs Good Fundraising Ideas
Like These.

Coming up with good fundraising ideas for Halloween is not difficult. Its one of those annual events that nearly everyone enjoys and is a perfect opportunity to get some money-making in for your organisation.

Halloween falls on the 31st of October - the day before All Saints Day. It is traditionally associated with witches, ghosts, vampires, monsters and pumpkins.

Halloween is perfect for anyone looking for large scale fundraising event ideas. You can also, however, use Halloween as an excuse for some good fundraising ideas at school, the workplace or the social club.

Below are some really good fundraising ideas to turn your Halloween into a top earner for your organisation.

Pumpkin Sale

Are you letting the local stores sell all the pumpkins?

Cut your organisation a slice of the action and hold a pumpkin sale the week before Halloween. Most people would rather buy when they know some of the money helps a charity.

Team up with a supplier or wholesaler and split the profits. Alternatively offer a supplier a pitch at your workplace or school for an agreed price.

You might also be able to sell ready carved pumpkins to local businesses, shops, bars and restaurants for their window displays.

Halloween Hot Soup

Make up some delicious hot soup - nice and spicy is best. If you have a cauldron so much the better. Dress up as witches and sell it to friends, work-colleagues or passers-by.

This works brilliantly in staff canteens if you can get the support of your firm's caterers.

Goblin Cookies

Who amongst you colleagues could resist a special Homemade Halloween Biscuit delivered to their desk.

Tricks or Treats

Offer your colleagues a choice of Lucky Dip Bags.

Some contain a treat such as a chocolate bar - others tricks such as an onion, a carrot, a stone with a plastic spider tied to it etc.

Pumpkin Pandemonium

Easily combined with anything else you had going on or could be a "stand alone" event.

Who can come up with the best Jack o' Lantern / Decorated Pumpkin

Some might be carved in the traditional way but there are all sorts of other imaginative ways competitors might decorate them.

Put a bucket or cap by each pumpkin so people can vote for their top entry with loose change.

Could you even run the whole event in your town precinct or shopping mall? Guaranteed passing traffic and publicity for your cause.

Halloween Ball

Ok really obvious but a great way to put on something just that bit different and stand out from all the other charity fundraisers. Dress your venue in scary black with ghoulish decorations. Have all your staff and volunteers in costume.

A fancy dress contest for your guests, great Halloween themed food and a few little competitions throughout the course of the evening. A perfect way to have fun and raise your organisation's profile.

Halloween Happening

Is your Summer Fete becoming a bit tired? Same every year and having to compete with every other event in the local area? Why not scrap it and try a Halloween Happening instead?

Simply give all your normal fete ideas a Halloween twist for instance Splat the Rat becomes Splat the Bat etc.

Then add in a few specials such as:

• Best decorated pumpkin competition.
• Scariest kids fancy dress.
• Apple bobbing

A Halloween Happening could really work for your organisation and give your volunteers something to have a bit of fun with.

Witch Hockey

Here's one that would capture the imagination of the local press and guarantee you some great publicity.

Two teams of witches in full regalia face each other for the ultimate challenge. Using their brooms as hockey sticks and a small football they play 20 minutes each way.

Meanwhile you work the crowd with all your other fundraising activities.

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