Fundraising ideas for students can be a daunting yet essential part of school life these days. Budgets are limited, and resources are constantly stretched. Inflation further adds to the fun of trying to make the limited dollar stretch further.
Here are the 8 top tips for a successful school fundraiser:
Chose a fundraiser that is easy to implement
Choose a Perth fundraiser that takes minimal time to run
Avoid complicated fundraisers that involve significant parental expertise
Utilise a well know local business, product or service to sell
Sell a highly consumable product
Have products that are loved by parents and kids
Offer products with a good ethical health angle
Choose a fundraiser that does 99.99% of the heavy lifting for you
It’s about time local businesses got off their backsides and started to think more holistically with a community approach to helping schools to achieve their fundraising in Perth goals they so desperately need to achieve for the betterment of the community. Using a smart approach to business and working with the community, there is no reason why local businesses can help schools achieve what they want to, and at the same time raise their profile. We should always look for a win win scenario, and team up to achieve some great results.
When considering online fundraising ideas for schools, here are some important considerations to ensure a successful school fundraising outcome:
The fund raiser should be ridiculously easy to implement – who has hundreds of hours as a parent to devote to fundraising for the school? Not too many people. Life is busy! We all want the best school and facilities for our kids, but we also have our own very busy lives to lead. So fundraiser can often require significant time, energy and brain power to pull off successfully. As a result, the easier the fundraiser is to implement, the better the uptake, and the more frequently it can be implemented with engage parental support.
Fundraising must take minimal time – as mentioned above, very few parents in the P&C orginisation have large amounts of time to invest. There are many steps involved in a traditional fundraising process, including but not limited to:
Finding and deciding on a good fundraiser
Purchasing the stock for a fundraiser (eg sausages/buns/sauce for a Bunnings sausage sizzle)
Organizing a payment system to capture credit card payments of you customers
Dealing with left over stock that doesn’t sell
Rounding up volunteers who are happy to commit time into the fund raising event
Marketing including leaflet sign creation / social media post and so on
Any fundraiser that can minimize time, making the process more simplified for a parent to be involved but not tied to the grindstone will be a win!
Fundraiser should be set up to require minimal to no parental expertise – lets face it, the easier, more simplistic a fundraising event can be made, the more the P & C will love it. If its simplified and easy to understand, the uptake will always be more rapidly approved.
Fundraiser should be partnered with well know local businesses – local businesses that have an already existing community presence, will have their good and services much more readily consumed by a warm and accepting market. This is not to say new businesses or businesses with little brand awareness wont be able to offer good opportunities to school to raise funds, however businesses who have an existing community footprint will always gain traction quicker when it comes to the sale of their good and services to the community at large.
School fundraisers will always get better results by selling a product that is highly consumable. Take pasta for an obvious example, a product that can be consumed multiple times a week, has a better opportunity of being purchased multiple times (further raising fundraising sales) over the length of the fundraiser. By partnering with a business that offers highly consumable products rather than a once off product, you will certainly boost your school fundraising results!
Make sure you choose a fundraising product that suits your school’s demographics and customer base. You need to sell a product for your fundraiser that suits the market you are selling to. School fund raisers predominantly are selling to kids and parents. Find products they both like, that makes life easier, like quick and easy meals that will be a win for the parents in the kids and loved by the kids.
Sell products with a good conscious- yes chocolate and donuts will be popular, but getting behind products like these and promoting these to our kids, does little our children’s health and education about good eating behaviors. When it comes to food products, ones with zero sugar and additives, that kids will still love are a much more ethical way to go!
Choose a fundraiser that gives you the complete package – the more the local business can do for you as a parent of the P&C, the easier your life will be. If they can minimize you running around time, payment collection, stock organization etc this will help keep you young and care free!
So in summary, the most successful school food fundraising options are ones that:
Are easy to implement
Take minimal time to run
Require minimal parental expertise
Utilise a well know local business, product or service
Sell a highly consumable product
Have products that are loved by parents and kids
Offer products with a good ethical health angle
Do 99.99% of the work for you
When it comes to food fundraising ideas, TOMMY SUGO FUNDRAISING will definitely tick all the above boxes and help you skyrocket your commissions.
Tommy Sugo is relatively well known across Perth, with our takeaway restaurant in Nedlands and our many pop up shops we have run over the years in shopping centers across Perth. With family made recipes, and flavours not available in supermarkets, the direct-to-consumer approach is little heard of but perfect for the likes of fundraising options.
When it comes to fundraising ideas Perth local businesses can play a huge part of solving the puzzle. We continue to raise 10’s of thousands of dollars for the community and we love doing it. We love to work with schools that are excited by the idea of implementing a super easy to run school fundraiser.
