Can you face 24 hours of not swearing, smoking or speaking?

If you can, get sponsored for it! Or why not try sporting ventures such as swimming, cycling or running, and get fit at the same time.

There are plenty of things you can get sponsored for –from giving up chocolate for a month to having your beard/hair shaved off. Or feeling more adventurous?

You could take on the challenge of a lifetime – from abseiling down a building to running a marathon – and you can ask people to sponsor you for your efforts.

Or perhaps you are just starting out and want a more manageable challenge like a three mile run and fancy an extra incentive by taking part for the ‘WWGF’.

See the Challenge Events section for some activities that you might be able to get involved with.

Auction lots could range from two hours of dog walking to theatre tickets, meals in local restaurants or mowing your neighbour’s lawn.

You could even auction someone’s skills – e.g. decorating. You could hold it at home or in a local venue and charge a small entrance fee.

Make sure you have got plenty to auction and get local publicity to encourage people to attend.

Cook a meal and invite your friends – for a price! You could also run a mini-raffle or auction during dinner to provide additional entertainment and raise money.

Help a neighbour or member of your family by taking their dog for a walk, doing their shopping or cleaning up the garden in exchange for a small donation. Better still why not encourage your family members to get sponsored to do household tasks – you will raise money for a good cause and help to create equality in your home!

Hold a party, BBQ, coffee morning, or even a wine tasting. Charge people to attend and organise a raffle. Everyone will have a great time and the money raised will make a real difference to the ‘WWGF’.

If you are part of a sports club, golf club or fitness centre, you could organise a charity football match, golf day or fancy dress sports challenge. Maybe your club has one already and you could nominate the ‘WWGF’ to be the benefiting charity?

Get permission to collect from your local supermarket, pub, football club, train station, theatre, cinema or shopping centre.

Ask your child’s school to arrange a fete, disco, or allow the children to wear their own clothes or pyjama’s to school for 50p or a £1.00.

A

Abseil
Aerobics: sponsored marathon/competition
Antiques fair
Arts or crafts stall/exhibition/fair
Auctions

B

Balls (Valentine’s, Easter, Summer and Christmas/New Year or themed?)
Bad hair/tie day
Bag packing at local Supermarket
Baked beans bath
Barbecue
Barn Dance
Bike rides
BMX bike display, or competition
Book/comic sale
Bouncy castle – it could be a sponsored event, e.g. number of bounces per minute!
Bring and buy sale

C

Cabarets/talent shows
Cakes Sales
Car boot sale
Car washing (in schools grounds/fire stations)
Charity of the Year in your school/workplace
Christmas cards – making and selling them, or selling bought cards
City Marathon
Classroom collections
Coffee mornings
Competitions
Computer games knockout – organise a competition, best if played in pairs
Concerts/recitals/plays/shows
Cook books – writing a class or school cookbook that can then be sold
Cookery contest (e.g. Ready Steady Cook – could be the teachers!)

D

Dance marathon
Dinner dance/ball
Discos/raves
Donkey Derby
Dodgeball competition
Dragon boat race
Dry Cornflakes/Cream Cracker-eating contest

E

Easter Egg hunt
Easter party
Egg rolling competition

F

Face painting
Fairs, fetes, bazaars, etc
Fancy dress party/day
Fashion show (with clothes made by pupils or donated by local shops)
Film show/premiere
Fireworks party (adults to organise)
Flower/fruit/vegetable show/sale/display/stall
Foam party – fill paddling or swimming pool with foam and then party!
Football tournament

G

Game shows (e.g. Stars In Their Eyes, Wheel of Fortune, Blockbusters, Blind Date etc)
Gigs (local bands play in school or clubs)
Golf day
Gymkhana
Great North Run

H

Hair beading/plaiting
Halloween party
Hot-dog/burger stand at fetes or fairs

H

It’s a Knockout competition

J

Judo competition or display (adults to organise)
Jumble sale
Jelly Bath

K

Karaoke competition/display (adults to organise)
Karate display/competition Sponsored Kick/Punch
Kickboxing display/competition Sponsored Kick/Punch

L

Line dancing
Longest chain of paper-clips, line of coins, etc
Lottery – Pick the Bonus Ball – percentage of money donated to Charity

M

Marathon events – table tennis, aerobics, line dancing, badminton, etc (in shift teams)
Midnight film shows/parties/etc
Mufti/non-uniform/denim/tracksuit/etc day
Murder Mystery evening/weekend

N

New Year’s Eve dance/party
Night-time hide and seek for adults, using torches
No work day, students choose what they want to do

O

Old-time music hall
One hundred club – raising £100 every week, half term or term, or a fundraising club with 100 members in it

P

Pancake day race/competition
Parties – school birthday/anniversary
Penalty shoot-out competition
Penny mile, where coins are lined up and measured – can be done in teams
Pet show
Photographic competitions
Pram push

Q

Quizzes

R

Races
Raffles
Rapping contest, show or sponsored event
Running events

S

Saints days parties/theme day
Santa’s grotto
School fair
Scoff-a-hotdog or any food competition (e.g. ‘who can eat two in the fastest time possible’!)
Silly games afternoons: egg & spoon, silly races, wet sponge throwing, etc
Skateboard display
Sponsored events (e.g. bike ride, dog walk, knit, kite-flying, headshave, haircut, hula-hooping, no smoking, rapping, run, shoe-clean, silence, sing, sports match, swim, talk, three-legged walks, walk, watch TV/don’t watch TV, window clean, etc etc etc)
Sports contests, teachers vs students (no PE teachers allowed!)
Stalls at fairs etc (e.g. cakes, plants, books)
Strawberry and cream tea party
Student-teacher swap day
Swap-shop

T

Tea party
Teddy bears’ picnic
Theme days/evenings (e.g. countries – French, Spanish; soap operas, past-eras etc)
Throwing wet sponges at a person/teacher/manager in stocks, great at a summer fair!
Tombola
Top of the Pops show, teachers or students miming and dancing to chart music
Treasure hunt
Tuck shop, where the profits go to the Walking With Giants Foundation – getting supplies donated?

U

Uniform days (for schools without a uniform and/or for teachers)
University challenge

V

Variety show

W

Wacky Races
Whist drive
White Elephant stall
Who’s that baby? (students and staff bring in photos of themselves as babies)

X

Xmas fair/panto/party

Y

Yacht race
Yo Yo competition – whose the best in the School or even sadder at work
Young Enterprise Scheme run by students, donate part of profits (e.g. making and selling cards)

Z

Zany parties

There are a number of laws and regulations governing how people can collect or fund raise for a charity.

Different laws and regulations apply depending on where and how you decide to raise funds. They are designed to protect you, the volunteer fundraiser and the public from fraud and to ensure best practice.

When you are fundraising for the ‘WWGF’, you are representing us, so we ask you to comply with our fundraising rules, the relevant laws and regulations; and be guided by our principles in all that you do.

It is essential that any fundraising activity or event should be run legally and safely. We have provided some information on the other pages in this section to guide you to organise your events legally and safely, but it is the responsibility of the events organiser to ensure compliance with legal, health and safety standards.