Right To Play Fundraising Ideas Below is a list of slightly off the wall fundraising ideas for anyone who wants to do something for Right To Play. If you need support in getting any of these going, email
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1 - Fundraising Idea: All-night 5-a-side tournament. Details: As many teams as possible compete in a yearly charity round-robin cup played throughout the night. Entry per team £25. How Right To Play can assist: Balls, a cup, sponsorship forms, T-shirts for every competitor, collecting tins etc.
2 - Fundraising Idea: Fitness Camp. Details: Invite people to join your fitness sessions once a week, paying £2 or so for the privilege. It’s cheaper than a gym and more social. How Right To Play can assist: We can provide Adidas kit to look more professional, as well as get our athletes to offer fitness advice and training regimes. Perhaps we could get some athletes to take sessions on occasion and charge everyone £5. Collecting tins and sign up forms available.
3 - Fundraising Idea: Tug of Phwoar. Details: Create team according to sports teams and gender. £10 sponsorship per person. Add scantily clad competitors for the ‘phwoar’ element.
How Right To Play can assist: We can provide Adidas kit to the winning teams and provide sponsorship forms for all competitors. We can also source the tug of war rope.
4 - Fundraising Idea: Swim the Channel. Details: A team relay attempting to collectively cover the distance of the Channel in the swimming pool. Sponsorship can be per length. For example at 34Km long, the straits of Dover to Calais would require 1360 lengths of a 25m pool. If we could secure £1 sponsorship per length this would prove quite lucrative and a great achievement for those involved. How Right To Play can assist: Our athletes can provide swimming and training advice. We could also provide swimming trunks, sponsorship help, PR and advertising support and fundraising supplys.
5 - Fundraising Idea: Run Land’s End to John o’Groats. Details: A team relay event at each university attempting to run the 603miles (970Km) from Land’s End to John o’Groats. 100 people running a 6.03mile course with each person raising £2 per mile would amount to £1200 per university. How Right To Play can assist: Running tips and training advice from our athletes, a prize for the fastest runner, fundraising sponsorship forms, adidas kit for all competitors.
6 - Fundraising Idea: Donation Dinner Party/House Party. Details: Invite your friends over for dinner, and instead of them bringing a bottle of alcohol ask them to make a donation to your event. How Right To Play can assist: - buckets and other fundraising stuff
8 - Fundraising Idea: Intramural Olympics. Details: Why not plan a day of events to find your universities Olympic athletes? By liaising with the university sports societies, you could potentially put on a whole host of events using the university facilities, from swimming to football to tennis to athletics. If everyone paid £2 per person per discipline this could be a huge event. How Right To Play can assist: Equipment, staff, administration, advertising, fund-raising and training tips.
9 – Fundraising Idea: Christmas BYO Speed Dating. Details: Advertise an evening of Bring Your Own speed dating. Men bring a bottle, Ladies bring food, and then ‘Eat, meet, drink and be merry.’ A great way to socialise, and at £10 per person a nice way to raise some money. How Right To Play can assist: Sadly we do not have training tips for speed dating. However, advertising to helping you find a venue, we will do all we can. It is Christmas after all.
1 0 - Fundraising Idea: The Co-ed Cup Details: Mixed teams of men and women compete in sports matches for the Co-ed Cup. Maybe the men’s and women’s 1st and 2nd teams of each sport can come together, mix, and compete. If we took football, hockey, netball/basketball, and say mixed doubles tennis, this could prove easy to arrange and quite profitable. At £100 per team, this should raise near enough £1000 per university. How Right To Play can assist: We can support all administration provide fund-raising tips, materials and forms.
11 - Fundraising Idea: Uni Challenge Golf Details: You could set up a short hole of say 50metres and charge people £1 to try and hit a hole in one in order to win a prize. Why not try it with a football? Set up a football golf course on your university and charge all people to enter. Organise closest to the pin challenges, hole in one prizes... How Right To Play can assist: We could provide collection boxes, and also a prize worth competing for. We can design any course and help run the event.
12 - Fundraising Idea: Pool Shark Details: Charity pool competition in university halls. This would be very easy to set up. How Right To Play can help: We could offer a prize and obviously help with advertising posters and entry forms.
13 - Fundraising Idea: A Question of Sport Details: Arrange an evening to mark the end of the sporting season. This social could have a Question of Sport quiz staring 1st team captains, followed by drinks etc. Perhaps charge £20 per person.
How Right To Play can assist: We have a quiz available for use. We also may be able to get athlete ambassadors to take part and command a slightly higher fee. We could help with posters, advertising, ticket design etc.
14 - Fundraising Idea: Fastest Penalty Details: A competition to find the fastest shot at the university. £1 per shot. Perhaps split into men’s and women’s. We could even discover the fastest student shot in the country. How Right To Play can assist: We have a speed testing goal that is available to borrow. Again, we can help with advertising.
