1. THE ANZA
ULTIMATE
FUNDRAISING
PACK
www.anza.co.com UK charity no. 11375679

2. FUNDRAISING
STORIES
This section is full of fundraising ideas for you event; we’ve included a lot of short
stories from fundraisers who have done these events in the past. We tell you what they
did, and how much they raised.

3. Naked Calendar
Don’t panic – it doesn’t need to be that revealing!
Gather a group of girls and boys willing to show
some skin for charity. Make it funny by using
props, or how about spelling ‘Anza’ with various
people in strange positions! The novelty alone
will sell these copies (not to mention the half
naked students in them!). Printing a calendar
isn’t too expensive, and with the right marketing
these could sell like hot cakes! Set up a stall in
a busy area with a big printout of your favourite
picture from the calendar on the backdrop – it
will be sure to draw attention! Bristol University
students raised over £500 bearing skin for
charity!
Bag Packs
This one may sound a bit boring – but it’s a great
way to raise those pounds! Ask your mates to
help you out by joining you for an afternoon of
bag packing in your local supermarket. Most
people bring their own bags these days – but for
extra donations, collect a load of carrier bags and
have them to hand – people will be more willing
to donate when they have dodged paying the
extra 5p for a carrier bag! A 4-5 hour session of
bag packing at a busy store can easily make you
about £60 – with 4 friends that’s a whopping
£300 towards your total for just a few hours’
work!
CENSORED

4. Strictly Come Dancing
Get in contact with your University’s dance
societies and bag yourself some dance Anzaers
who are willing to Anza some moves for charity!
Rally up some SU staff (President, Officers,
Editor, Events staff etc.) that is up for taking
part and start advertising! All you need is some
cooperative Anzaers, dancers and a venue and
your good to go! Warwick University charged £5
a ticket for this event and raised an impressive
£950!
No School Uniform Days
This is a quick and effective way of raising a substantial amount towards
your target. Every school has several non-school uniform days throughout
the year. Why not approach your old school, or even a school local to your
university and offer to do a presentation on Anza for your students in return
for a day of raising funds for your event. The average secondary school has
600 students – that’s £600 raised in one day, for the sake of a PowerPoint
presentation following your event, which can mark your experiences and
funds, raised personally and nationally for education in Africa!

5. Car Boot Sale
Visit your neighbours and ask if they’ve got any
items they’d be happy to donate to a car boot
sale. Things that sell well are clothes, jewellery,
recipe books and household items. A previous
Anza participant did this and raised £60 in a
couple of hours. If you do this on a monthly basis
and keep collecting donations you’ll soon raise
hundreds!
Pub Quiz
You can download our pub quiz packs from the
online fundraising folder. It covers everything
you need to know to run a quiz, including music
round, picture round, and 6 question rounds.
An Anza Student Ambassador ran this event and
raised £350 in one night.

6. SIMPLE
FUNDRAISERS
Not all fundraisers have to be thoroughly organised and advertised – you can do plenty
of things to raise money without even leaving the house! Here are a few ideas to get you
started.

7. Clean the Kitchen
There’s something about student houses and
their kitchens – okay, maybe it’s just the students
– but a clean kitchen seems to be a rarity in
these houses! Charge your house-mates a small
fee to keep the kitchen clean, or do the dishes –
it’s surprising what people will pay to get out of
doing their chores!
Take the Bins Out
The dreaded bins – everyone hates this job, if you were to offer
your housemates a ‘get out of bins card’ it’s almost certain they
will take you up on it! Charge each housemate just £1 a week to
get out of bin duty…before you know it you’ll have a good chunk
towards your fundraising target, all for the sake of taking a few
bin bags out! You could offer to do this for your friend’s houses
too for some extra cash!

8. Clean Your Friend’s Car
Cleaning your car is one of those jobs you seem
to never get round to doing. Why not charge your
friends £5 to clean their car! It will only take
about 20 minutes of your time (well, I suppose
that depends on how messy your friends are…)
and it’s another step closer to that fundraising
total!
Cook Instead of Takeaway
Takeaways are always a great idea – but for the
cost, you could save a lot by making it yourself
at home! The attraction of a takeaway is the idea
of not having to cook, so next time your house-
mates suggest a domino’s or a curry; offer to
make them dinner yourself. Homemade pizzas
are so cheap to make, and curries are cheap and
easy too! Charge them half of what they would
have paid for a takeaway and you’ll be on your
way to that target in no time!

9. EVENTS AT
HOME
Why not take it up a notch and use your house as a venue? Here are a few ideas you can
do at home and invite your friends to. If you want to run a sweepstake alongside one of
these events use our online sweepstake partner, Guess2Give www.guess2give.com

10. Eurovision Night
Host a Eurovision Party for all your friends! You could cook themed food in
the tradition of the host country. You can also run a sweepstake alongside the
meal, for this you need as many friends as there are countries. Everyone gives a
donation to come along, you allocate everyone a country to everyone at random,
and winner gets a prize at the end of the night. Why not give a booby prize to the
loser too? You can also download score-sheets from the BBC in the lead up to
Eurovision, marking each team will keep spirits high throughout the long night!
Award Ceremonies
There are loads of televised awards ceremonies that you can
turn into a party! Ask all your friends to donate £5 to come
along. You could even ask them to come dressed as one of the
nominees! Put some snacks and drinks together too. You could
even run a sweepstake on the night, randomly allocate awards
and nominees e.g. Best Picture Gravity. If your ticket wins you
win a small prize.

11. Styling and Makeup
Are you great at doing nails or make up? Get your
friends over before a night out; you can do their
make up, hair or nails in return for a donation.
Superbowl Party
Throw an American party in the run up to the superbowl;
your friends can all make a donation in return you will host a
superbowl party complete with snacks. Why not go all out with
American themed food, maybe try a 7-layer dip or a snackadium
(Google that one!). To keep your costs down you can ask your
friends to each bring something for a buffet table. Tell everyone
the theme is America, and get everyone to dress up too!

12. Poker Night
Set up a poker game with your friends. For legal
reasons the fee to participate can’t be higher
than £8. Instead of poker why not try a Foosball
tournament or an x-box competition? Have a
formal dress code; it’ll make it more fun!
Themed Dinners
In return for a donation, you can host a dinner
party for your friends. Why not have an American
or Canadian Thanksgiving party with a turkey,
or a themed party to match with your challenge.
If you’re going to Macchu Picchu you can make
ceviche and drink pisco sours, for the Atlas
Mountains why not try a tagine. Think about
an event for Pancake Day, or an all Green Food
event for St Patrick’s Day.

13. Games Night
Get nostalgic and get your friends together for
some childhood favourites. Twister, Jenga, Uno,
Hungry Hippos, Snakes and Ladders or Kerplunk
– ask if friends have any board games you can
borrow or try local charity shops for cheap
games.
Frat Party
Invite your friends over for an American Style
Frat Party. Beer pong, battle shots, flip cup – A
free drink on the door with a donation.

14. Spa Day
With some relaxing music in the background and a scented
candle you can set up a lovely spa day with pedicures, manicures
and face masks. Get some cheap supplies in or make your own
sugar scrubs and get your nail polish out. This is a great one to
get your friends involved in, or something to treat your mum
and her friends too. Charge £5 for a pedicure or manicure, more
for a facial.
Children’s Party
Make this a daytime activity to fit with the theme. Musical
Chairs, Musical Bumps, Pin The Tail on the Donkey, Pass the
Parcel, Blind Man’s Buff, Musical Statues who says they’re only
games for kids? To keep costs low, instead of gifts in Pass the
Parcel, put a dare in each layer and use newspaper. Charge an
entry fee for this one, and make sure there’s a Birthday Cake,
charge 50p a slice.

15. UNIVERSITY
FUNDRAISERS
Not everyone has time to organise a big fundraising event, we appreciate that your
studies can get in the way of making the most of fundraising sometimes – so here are
some ideas that can tie in with those all nighters at the library or dreaded dissertation
deadlines!

16. Facebook Ban
Procrastination is our enemy - we’ve all been
guilty of spending more time on Facebook than
Wikipedia, and rewarding our ‘ten minutes
of work’ with ‘ten minutes of Facebook’. Why
not charge people £1 to change their Facebook
passwords while they are in the library – with
an allocated slot once every 1-2 hours that they
can log in – or not at all! They can decide on
the specifics, while you collect those pounds!
Make some flyers and scatter them around the
computer area in the library, with your number/
email address for them to contact to get banned!
Library Snack Pack
Head to the supermarket and buy an array of fun snacks –
crisps, chocolate, red bull, fruit – whatever you think would
keep you going during those long library hours! Put your snacks
in a plastic sandwich bag and sell them for £3 a pop. It will be
cheaper than those overpriced vending machines – and the
novelty will be a great distraction from essay writing!

17. Proof Reading
If you’ve got a good grasp of grammar and
spelling – offer to proofread essays/dissertations
for your peers for a small fee. A second opinion is
always incredibly valuable – and for the sake of a
few minutes reading over some essays (more than
a few minutes for dissertations…) it’s an easy way
of making a few extra pennies!
Library Fine Amnesty
Library fines build up very quickly – before
you know it that book you’ve been meaning to
take back all week has cost you £10! It is in the
library’s interest to get their books back, more
than it is to get those fines paid. Contact your
library and negotiate a one day only fine amnesty
– all books returned will only have to pay half
of their fine – which will go directly to your
TEACH target. The library will sacrifice the fees
in the name of charity, but mainly in the name
of retrieving those long lost books! Advertise,
advertise, advertise – the more books returned,
the closer you are to your total!

18. Record your Lectures
Dictaphones are a great tool to own during your time at
university – you can record entire lectures (always ask
your lecturers first) and re-listen to them come exam or
essay writing time. Many students will be wishing that
they could remember more of that lecture that is suddenly
so relevant to their essay title or exam content – with all
lectures recorded and available to send via email, you
could raise a good contribution towards that total! Why
not take it a step further and re-listen to the recordings
and make thorough notes on each lecture and charge your
friends for the comprehensive transcripts of your lectures!
Revision Packs
Why not create a revision pack for your course
mates? Not only will it be beneficial to your
studies – but you can make some money with it
too! You could take it a step further and create a
test or mock exam questions for those real keen
beans!

19. SPONSORSHIP
IDEAS
The key to successful sponsorship is to think of original challenges that people are
genuinely going to be impressed that you’re doing! Post this on Facebook with a link to
your VMG page, and ask your family to send out emails to family friends.

20. Go Vegan
If you’re a carnivore, ditching meat is bad enough
– but pack in the milk, eggs and cheese for a
month and people will applaud your for your
dedication – ask for a minimum sponsorship
amount of £200 before you start your Vegan
adventure and keep a blog or log throughout the
month. Watching you struggle through your posts
will be sure to encourage people to donate more,
and by the time your month is over – you’ll have
raised a chunk towards your target, and maybe
even lost a chunk around your waist!
Hair Be Gone!
Shaving your hair off for charity can earn you a
lot of money towards your target! If you’re a lad
with an impressive head of hair, or even better a
girl willing to cut off those luscious locks – people
will pay big money to see you cut it off! With
the right advertisement this can be a big event –
make the chop a public event and charge people
to come and watch. Collecting sponsorship for
an exciting event like this is easy – and after all,
your hair will always grow back! A student from
Swansea University cut off not only his shoulder
length hair, but also his eyebrows and even had
his chest waxed – and raised £550 in the process!

21. The Chilli Challenge
Tell your supporters if you reach a certain target
you’ll eat something super spicy. If someone
wants you to eat something in particular tell him
or her they must sponsor you £20 and you’ll
do it. You could even start at the bottom of the
Scoville Scale and work your way up as you hit
different fundraising targets. A Jalapeño for
£100, a spoonful of sriracha for £200, a Scotch
Bonnet for £300.
Sky Dive
Most skydives have a minimum cost of between £150 - £200,
so you have to make sure that you raise more than this to make
it work. If a skydive is something you would do anyway, you
can pay the cost yourself, and use the event to drum up some
sponsorship. The good news is that the majority of people would
never dream of jumping out of a plane, so your courage will earn
your pennies in no time.

22. 24 Hour Fast
Everyone has a vice, so give it up for Anza. With
enough dedication you could keep this going for a
whole year – chocolate, alcohol, cigarettes...! Maybe
your friends know you as a caffeine addict, give up
for a day, or even a week. Make sure to put aside the
money you save without heading to Starbucks for a
fix of your favourite beverage, and you’ll raise even
more. Or if you’d prefer to give up something for 24
hours instead, do a fast, stay up for 24 hours or give
up your iPhone. You could even give up electricity
altogether and see how long you can cope. No eating
anything from the fridge, no tea, no microwave,
computer or phone. It’ll be easy to convince people
to sponsor you as not many people could do it!
Doughnut Challenge
Eat a dozen doughnuts without licking your lips.
This one is almost impossible! You can easily
make this into an event, do it in the union and get
a friend to collect donations whilst you’re eating.
Make sure you go for sugared doughnuts; glazed
ones are just too easy!

23. 24 Hour Event
On the other hand what can you do for 24 hours? In the
past fundraisers have walked 55 miles in under 24 hours
for Anza. If you do this with a group of friends and get
them to raise £50 each you can raise loads of money, take
a look at our ‘Organising a Fundraising Walk’ document
for more info on how to plan this. You could play football
for 24 hours or just dance!
Sponsored Races
There are so many organised obstacle courses
and races nowadays, and some of them are really
cheap to sign up to, especially if you’re in time
for an Early Bird Special. These aren’t exclusive
charity events but you can use them to fundraise
through your VMG page. Use www.muddyrace.
co.uk to find an event near you. There are even
some indoor events so you can keep pushing
yourself during the winter months too.

24. SPONSORSHIP
INCENTIVES
You can offer incentives to your sponsors – the more they give you the better
their reward!
Decide what you’d like to offer for each level and get it sent out to all of your friends and
family, and put it on your Facebook page. These are just our suggestions, add your own
and be as creative as you like!

25. £5
£10
• Grow a dreadlock; everyone who donates
£5 will be entered into a raffle to win it. Yes
someone did do this – it added £60 to their
fundraising total.
• You will be entered into a raffle to win...
What else can you offer? Stinky socks from
your Moroccan Adventure?
• You’ll get a personal thank you on our
university Anza Facebook group.
• You will get free entry to our fundraising
event.
For a
For a
Donation
Donation
£20
• I’ll send you a postcard from Tanzania!
• I’ll write you a Haiku about my challenge.
For a
Donation
£40
• I’ll draw a picture of you in Paint and email
it over.
• I’ll write your name in the sand on the
project site and send you a photo.
For a
Donation
£50
• I’ll get you a small gift from Morocco.
• I’ll take a photo of you to the challenge and
get photos of you in 3 interesting locations.
For a
Donation
£100
• I’ll bake you cupcakes in your choice of
flavour.
• I’ll sing you a personal thank you song and
put it on Facebook.
• You’ll get a public thank you at our
fundraising event:
For a
Donation