Fundraising Ideas
Here are 7 things you can do TODAY to raise cash for Sport Relief!
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- Get your Sport Relief Socks at your local Sainsbury's store, or right here
- Download a sweepstake poster - and charge colleagues to play
- Lift toll – fine anyone that uses the lift at work without good cause!
- Test your sporting knowledge - download our sports quiz and charge to play
- Beat a target - get sponsored to do loads of keepy uppies, volleys or baskets
- See who’s Mr or Mrs Muscle – hold an arm wrestling competition
- Hold a Sport Relief TV party – invite your friends over and charge an entry fee! Tune in tonight, 7pm, BBC ONE
- Make your sport part of your Mile – wear your sports kit, run in a scrum or carry a fully packed rucksack around the route to really test yourself.
- Run, walk, hop or skip your Mile dressed as your favourite sports star.
- Time challenge – race against your mates to see who’s got what it takes.
- Pull together the biggest team you can and do the Mile conga style!
- Hold a pasta party to get your carbohydrate load before doing your Mile on Sunday 16th March.
- Go old-school – hold an old-fashioned sports day, complete with the egg-and-spoon, 3-legged and sack races.
- Team up and tackle a gruelling obstacle course.
- Hold a sport-themed Apprentice challenge – whoever raises the least amount of cash gets fired or has to do a forfeit!
- Do a Top Gear type ‘best time’ challenge at a go-karting track.
- Wacky races – have a race or get sponsored to go a really long way on bikes, skateboards or rollerblades.
- Non-uniform day – ditch the boring school shirt and swap it for your favourite footie team’s strip instead.
- Set up a class v class five-a-side football, hockey or netball competition.
- Get your brain in gear and organise the Student Sport Relief Quiz.
- Do a Sport Relief Mile at school – make it a three legged race, students v staff or parents v kids for added fun.
- Can you kick it? Find out with a teachers v pupils penalty shoot out.
- Sport themed dress down day – dress as your favourite sports star and award a prize for the best dressed.
- Lift toll – fine anyone that uses the lift at work without good cause!
- Vote for a senior staff member to take part in a sporting challenge – it could be a penalty shoot out, arm wrestling or even a skydive.
- Hold your own mile event – hop, skip, run, or relay your way to the finish line.
- Whatever your challenge, boost your fundraising – and your energy levels – with an accompanying bake sale.
- Beat a target – get sponsored to do loads of keepy uppies, volleys or baskets.
- Dog walking – charge family, neighbours and friends for your services.
- Walk or cycle everywhere or pay the price – put 50p in the fundraising pot whenever you use the car.
- Get sponsored to take up a personal challenge – cycle to Paris, climb Ben Nevis or do a bungee jump.
- Pamper people with a massage or foot rub after their strenuous sporting activity & charge a fee!
- Make your own marathon – get sponsored to do your favourite sport for as long as you possibly can.
- Challenge other clubs to a fundraising match.
- Hold a tournament, charge to enter and sell refreshments to make extra dosh.
- Organise a sporting dinner and include a raffle to see the cash roll in.
- Auction off your club’s hottest property – the star players! Get a one on one coaching session or make them wash your team’s match kit!
- Flex your muscles with a halls v halls tug of war.
- Varsity match – hold inter-university or inter-mural matches.
- Auction off the captains of various sports teams to do whatever the lucky bidder wants – within reason!
- Hold a Gladiators-style contest – test your strength, speed and stamina against your comrades!
- Swap sports – sponsor the captain of the rugby team to trade places with the captain of the netball team for a match.
- Watch a big match with your mates and hold a sweepstake on the first player to score, get a yellow card or get sent to the sin bin.
- Pub games tournament – pay to play pool, darts, dominoes or cards.
- Test your sporting knowledge – download our sports quiz and charge to play.
- Guess the number of golf tees in a pint glass.
- See who’s Mr or Mrs Muscle – hold an arm wrestling competition.
- Sponsored swim – go further than you’ve ever swum before, aim for a personal best or challenge yourself to learn synchronised swimming.
- Dive right in and see who can collect the most objects from the bottom of the pool in the fastest time.
- Do a sponsored scuba dive.
- See how fast you can go with a yacht, white water rafting or dragon boat race.
- Hold a surfing, waterskiing, windsurfing competition.
- Get lost – or preferably not – with an orienteering treasure hunt.
- Go wild – do a cross country bike race or run.
- Be a high climber and go mountaineering or rock climbing – team up and compete to be the first to the top.
- Try something different with an archery or clay pigeon shooting competition.
- For a more colourful challenge try paintballing with friends.
- Swim-a-thon – challenge yourself to swim a mile in one week.
- Sporting statues – the music stops and so should you! Who can stay still for the longest in their sporting pose?
- Footie fanatics – use your footie skills to raise some cash with a five-a-side game or penalty shoot out.
- Get crazy with golf – make and use your own crazy golf course using old toilet rolls and boxes and challenge your mates to complete it.
- Giant hoopla – using a hula hoop, make your own game of hoopla and try and get your hoop over a selection of things (e.g. boxes, cushions, teddies etc).
- Hold a sports ball complete with disco or ballroom dance competitions.
- Pool party – compete at water polo, water volleyball or a good old fashioned swimming race.
- Organise a bowling and beer party.
- Hold a sports stars tribute party - the best dressed wins a prize.
- Get all your mates to pay a few quid extra to go to a roller disco or ice skating.
- Do aerobics, spinning, circuits, boxercise, yoga or pilates for 24hours straight.
- Organise a mile event in your gym – get everyone to run, pedal or row 1,3 or 6 miles and compete against fellow gym goers.
- Organise a raffle to win a personal trainer for a week or month.
- Have a gym session dressed as your favourite sports star.
- Get the staff to set themselves a sporty challenge - whoever raises the least amount of money does a forfeit.
- Challenge your friends and family to a fantasy football or rugby competition.
- Watch a big match and sell tickets to the best seats in town – in your very own front room! Sell refreshments to make extra cash.
- Games night – use the interactive sports games on your multiplayer console at home or compete at Twister!
- Red Card your mates for foul language during a big match – get them to donate to the Sport Relief swearing pot each time they let a bad word slip.
- Hold a sport themed movie marathon – dust off some old classics (Happy Gilmore, Chariots of Fire – the possibilities are almost endless!) invite everyone round and charge your mates for popcorn.