fundraise at work

  • Sign Up for a Challenge – Run a marathon as a rely team.
  • Bouncing Babies – Get your colleagues to bring in a baby photo and have a competition to guess who’s who. Charge a small entry fee and offer a prize.
  • Ditch the Suit – Pay a small donation to dress down in casual clothes or dress up with a fun theme.
  • Bake Sale – Brighten up everyone’s day with a coffee and cake sale.
  • Sponsored Silence – Hold a sponsored challenge – can you go a day without speaking? Or sending no emails?!
  • Bosses Brew! Sponsor your boss to make tea for the day.
  • Auction of Promises – Ask colleagues to come up with a promise – such as getting coffee for the whole team for a week or getting your boss to wear fancy dress or job swap with a colleague. If you’re a manager, get sponsored to go back to the ‘shop floor’. Auction the promises over the company intranet or on the staff noticeboard.
  • Trek it Out – Near or far, to the Pentlands or just to the bar, organise your own company expedition.
  • Five-a-side – Organise a football tournament with teams of your colleagues, local companies, friends and family. Charge an entry fee per team. You can even sell tickets to you cheer squad!
  • Get Cool– Do temperatures in your office soar in the summer? Fill a cool box or your work freezer with ice creams and lollies and sell them around the office.
  • Host a works Foodie Fundraiser – Set up a brilliant breakfast buffet that colleagues won’t be able to resist! Organise a ‘Bring and Share Lunch’ or swap the shop and pack your own lunch (instead of buying) every day for a month and donate the savings made to Edinburgh Food Project.
  • Test your Knowledge! Test your colleagues’ knowledge by organising your very own quiz night. Make it all about sport or music or general knowledge. Alternatively persuade your local pub to help by donating the takings from its regular quiz night.
  • Sweepstake – Set up a sweepstake for a big event which could be anything from the first goal scorer in the FA Cup final to the winner of the winner of the Grand National or the latest reality TV competition.
  • Word Ban – Pick your most common corporate speak, be it low hanging fruit, easy win or on the same page; challenge people not to use these words for a day by penalising those that do and getting them to ‘reach out’ to Edinburgh Food Project.
  • Survey Savvy! If you regularly ask for customer feedback, get customers involved in fundraising by suggesting your company makes a donation for every customer survey returned.