71 fundraising ideas for youth groups
Often youth groups are needing to do a bit of fundraising. Sometimes for trips, mission trips, for charitable organisations. Here are 71 ideas fundraising ideas for your youth group.
Auctions
Desserts
Lawn care service
Dinner auction
Donation from Venders
Babysitting
Silent Auction
Raffles
Students for Service
Pledges
Bowl-a-thon (pledge per pin)
Walk-a-thon (pledge per mile)
Bike-a-thon (pledge per mile)
Rock-a-thon (using rocking chairs)
Trash-a-thon (pledge per bag)
Corporate car wash (donations from Businesses)
Dime-a-Dance
Dinners
After church brunch
All Saints day flower sales & dinner after church
Cafe Night
Dinner in concordance with church meetings
Pancake Breakfast
Dinner Theater: Friday, Saturday, Sunday matinees (ask for a free will offering)
Potato or salad bars
Event Banquets/breakfast/dinners
Spaghetti feed
Basket Lunch-Find church attendees to sponsor student’s through prayer and/or a monetary amount, then thank them with a creative lunch basket.
Sweetheart Banquet
Put on Dinners at people’s homes for a fee (provide entertainment)
Donations
Change drop
Free will offering
Scholarships
Loose change offering
Slushie machine
Pledges from the congregation
Sponsor-A –Student
Pop machine Invest in students & become a stockholder
Community Helps
Have a booth at a fair
Free Car Wash-Students get pledges for how many cars they can wash in so many hours
Phone book deliveries
Partnership Days-Match up a student with people to serve and to work for donation
Car detailing
Phone book deliveries
Events
Drive-in movie
Benefit concerts/music/speakers
Golf tournament
Talent show
Deliver flowers for florist
Recycling
Bottle Drive
Aluminum Can drive
Paper drive
Sales
Bake Sale
Christmas decorations
Christmas trees
Cinnamon rolls
Craft Sale
Concessions at a local school
Donuts
Community yard sale
Fruit
Sell coupon books
Candy
Sell flowers & plants
T-shirt
Super bowl Sub Sale — “First & A Foot to Go” people place orders and the youth make delivers to homes during game
Miscellaneous
Adults “Adopt-A-Grandchild” for prayer and financial support.
Flamingo Insurance — Sell flamingo insurance to church members in various amounts which guarantee that their homes will not be the flocking ground of pink flamingo lawn ornaments. Place as many lawn ornaments as you can on uninsured lawns, and charge a service fee for their removal. To add even more fun, one member can hire a flamingo hit on another member by paying more than what that person bought their insurance for. Provide the opportunity for the insured to increase their insurance amount.
Students write an adult sponsor a letter before and during the event with prayer requests, then when they come home have dinner with the sponsor.
Support letters
Monthly payments-start early and have families contribute monthly to the fund