Quick Fundraising Ideas

Not all fundraising is created equal – any bucket shaker will agree with that. Sponsored ________ . Yes, fill in the gap, someone will have thought of it before, and probably tried it too. Car washing, lawn mowing, bag packing, wall painting, the list of quick fundraising ideas goes on, and on, and on…

So, what’s the fastest way to fund raise? That is the question, right? Well, the same bucket shakers will correct us on that one too. Probably some of the biggest earners on the fundraising scene are the ones with huge planning going into them – Comic Relief, Children in Need, the London Marathon to name a few. At the other end of the spectrum you’ve got the jumble sales in the local church and bag packing at Sainsbury’s by the scouts. That’s not to say they’re a breeze to organise, they really aren’t. Try talking to a busy Sainsbury’s manager, he’d love to help, he really would, but there’s a delivery at the back door, three people too many in each checkout queue and don’t mention the bloke nicking the bottle of whisky he’s got one eye on courtesy of the CCTV monitor in the corner of the office. You really need nerves of steel and a very persuasive nature to get your message across, and a commitment of a Saturday afternoon slog at the end of fifteen checkouts.

So what, I hear you ask, is the solution? There’s plenty of familiar sounding scenarios in the previous two paragraphs, but not a great deal of solution. Well. Read on…

There comes a time when you need to start thinking a little differently. How isolated have you felt in the past when a chain of meetings with people promising to help you raise the money you vitally need have turned out to be a waste of time, or if they have come to something have under delivered? Have you actually stepped back and had that flash of inspiration that there are hundreds, if not thousands of other people also trying to find that magical combination of quick fundraising ideas for their good cause too? Probably not, it took me quite a while too, and suddenly I saw things from a different angle, and set up this blog.

I thought back to my earlier days in marketing, when I had a big solid brand name behind me, the company I worked for. That used to open a lot of doors on it’s own for getting my voice heard, which when it comes to fundraising isnt quite the same. Projection of voice has been replaced by an air of sympathy. As I said before, people would love to help, they really would, but there’s only so many times they want to put their hand in their pocket in the name of a good cause – after all, the bank quite like them to pay the mortgage.

So what are we going to do about it? Simple, we’re going to let our friends just like you benefit from our research and the nuggets of useful information we’ve found in the sea of quick fundraising ideas, including the failures out there.

Sound good?

Then lets get started…