Ready to plan for a successful fundraising initiative?
We want to make your fundraising as easy and as successful as possible, so we are pleased to provide some Planning Worksheets to help you get organised. There are also some great posters you can tailor for your school, along with a printable worksheet to get students involved!
Based on experience, we have also included some hints for the best ways to promote your fundraising activity and make it a success.
Planning Resources
Do you need to discuss this idea at your next Parent Group, PTA or School Council meeting?
Volunteering to help with fundraising at your school is an amazing way to give back to the local community and make your child’s school a better place. If you need to present your proposed fundraising idea to a committee at your school, it’s best to have as much information ready and be able to present a concise pitch for the planned activity.
At the meeting, particularly at the start of the school year as you formulate your fundraising goals, it is important to discuss and record the fundraising aims of your school community.
Communicate Your Fundraising Plans to Your School Community
You’ll read lots of hints and tips about how to create successful fundraisers, but the number one rule has to be making sure that the students, teachers parents and other family members and carers are engaged with the fundraising plans at their school.
And it’s hard to be interested in something if you don’t know what’s happening!
Once you have confirmed your fundraising plans, it’s helpful to sort them into a schedule and present them as a calendar, so everyone knows the upcoming fundraising plans.
Here are some planners to help you achieve this for your school:
Once you’ve finalised your Annual Fundraising Calendar, be sure to share it with your school community via your School Newsletter or other communication channels within your school.
Set Up Your Fundraising Campaign
That’s the easy part!
Get set up and create your online fundraising campaign here at Raise For Schools.
Promotion
Once your campaign is set up and ready to receive funds, you need to let your school community and the world know about it!
There are lots of ways to get the word out and raise as much as possible.
Printed Posters and Flyers
Try this printable poster to personalise for your fundraising campaign; you might like to place them around your school. Think big and place them in local shops and businesses too!
Students are at the heart of your school’s fundraising so why not get them involved? Download a printable Student Flyer here.
School Newsletter
Don’t forget to utilise your school’s Newsletter, weekly update or communication app to let your community know about your fundraising initiative. If it’s a digital newsletter, be sure to include a link to your Raise For Schools campaign. Check with your school office team to find out when the deadline is for the newsletter, so you can make sure they have your information ready to publish.
School Website
Your school’s website is viewed by both your school community and visitors beyond your school families, so it’s a great channel to promote your fundraising concept. Don’t forget to include the link so those people keen to support your fundraising can do so easily.
Publicity
Local newspapers and even radio stations love to support schools, and the creation of an exciting campaign to fund a particular cause is a great story.
The key to improving your chances of having your fundraiser picked up lies in making it as easy as possible for the journalist to write the story, so it’s really important to provide them with all the information. As a basis, you’ll need:
Name of your school.
What you are raising funds for and why you have selected this concept.
The benefit the raised funds will bring to students and the school.
The fundraising goal amount.
When the campaign begins and ends.
The link to your Raise For Schools campaign.
Contact name and phone number/email address if the journalist needs further information for the story.
Contact information if readers want to find out more.
You might also like to include a quote from your School Principal, PTA President or another school leader to provide their opinion and maybe some additional background around the fundraising campaign.