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Events
Community fundraising plays an essential role in raising awareness and funds to help the 42,000 animals we care for every year. Holding your own event is a fun way to help RSPCA Qld raise vital funds.
We can guide you on running your event, and provide posters and brochures to help make your event a success. Below are a few fundraising ideas, but the possibilities are limited only by your imagination!
Community Event Ideas
Trivia night
Trivia nights are a fun way of getting groups of people together to raise funds for the RSPCA. Ask friends, family, work colleagues, clients etc. to fill tables of ten at a cost of $10 per person, for example. There could be ten rounds of ten questions with small prizes for the winning table per round and a prize for the overall winner.
Sausage Sizzle
Why not hold a sausage sizzle at your school, workplace or community group? Companies such as Bunnings and Mitre 10 will also allow you to organise one on site. Please ensure that all food provided complies with RSPCA Qld's Food Policy.
Dress down day at work
Organise a casual dress down day at work and ask participants for a gold coin donation to be donated to RSPCA Qld. To get in the spirit of fundraising, perhaps staff members could dress up as their favourite animal!
Enter a team in the Million Paws Walk
Held annually, the Million Paws Walk is a fantastic opportunity for you and your four legged best friends to participate in a healthy walk, mingle with pet owners, get involved with competitions and activities, or just enjoy the festival atmosphere with great entertainment, a variety of food and drink, exhibitor stalls and animal demonstrations.
Share the fun of the Million Paws Walk with family, friends and colleagues by entering a team in this year’s event. There are some great prizes and trophies to be won by both teams and individuals alike!
Held in 25 different locations throughout Queensland, this is the perfect day out for you and your furry family!
Barefoot lawn bowls
A set entry fee could cover food, drinks and green fees. You could also have prizes for the worst roll, best costume etc
Cook up a storm for Cupcake Day for the RSPCA
Grab your cupcake ingredients, dust off your chef’s hat, get your mixer ready - Cupcake Day for the RSPCA is back and we need YOU!
Last year, you baked over 350,000 cupcakes across Australia and raised a staggering $1,100,000 for the animals in the care and protection of the RSPCA. This year, we want to ice that total and add hundreds and thousands!
eBay auction
Got a painting with nowhere to hang it? A set of golf clubs that you just haven’t used? Put unwanted or donated items for auction on eBay and donate the money towards your fundraising goal.
Movie Nights
Cinemas can be really helpful and open their doors for a movie screening, with a percentage of ticket sales to go towards RSPCA QLD.
Guessing Competition
How many dog biscuits in a jar? (e.g. $1 donation to guess)
Self sacrifice
Make the ultimate sacrifice and give up chocolate for two months and ask your friends, family and colleagues to sponsor your pledge! Or instead of buying your morning coffee or lunch, make it at home or work and donate the money you would have spent towards achieving your fundraising goal.
Community Fundraising Ideas
Paw Box in your school or business
Become an RSPCA SuPAWtor and join the growing number of businesses that are contributing to the care and protection of the 41,000 animals in the care of RSPCA Qld each year, through our Paw Box program.
To register to be a SuPAWtor and have a Paw Box in your school or workplace, please click here or call 07 3426 9943. Once your registration has been received, you will be issued with a Paw Box collection tin and also a guide on how to return the collected funds to RSPCA Qld.
Raffle
Use your contacts with business and friends and ask for an item to be donated and used as a raffle prize. Recruit a group of people to sell raffle tickets for $2 each or 6 for $10 (for example) and raise as much money as you can.
There are some rules for conducting a raffle. On any advertising material you should state the retail value of the prize, the cost of the tickets, the time, date and where the raffle is being drawn, and how the winners will be contacted (phone, mail etc). 'For more information, please check out gogr.qld.gov.au or contact our Events Team on 07 3426 9943 or events@rspcaqld.org.au
Garage sale
Collect household items, books, clothes, furniture and bric-a-brac from friends, family and co-workers and hold a garage sale. Advertise in your local paper or in the relevant section in The Courier-Mail. Invite your friends to help on the day.
Sell RSPCA merchandise at your workplace
RSPCA Qld will provide you with a variety of small merchandise items place on your reception desk to sell to your colleagues. For more information or to order, please contact our Events Team on 07 3426 9943 or events@rspcaqld.org.au.
Awareness and education
Raising awareness of the work of the RSPCA is a very important first step in educating the public on animal welfare issues. RSPCA Qld can send a representative to your workplace to speak with your group about the vital work performed by our Society.
For more information about Community Fundraising, please contact our Events Team on 07 3426 9943 or events@rspcaqld.org.au
Please download and complete the Community Fundraising Proposal and Guidelines form before you begin fundraising, so RSPCA Qld can approve your fundraising activities.
For more information about corporate fundraising, please contact Di Baartz on 3848 1178 or dbaartz@rspcaqld.org.au.
Corporate partners please download and complete the Corporate Partnership Proposal and Guidelines form before you begin fundraising, so RSPCA Qld can approve your fundraising activities.
Please download RSPCA Qld's Food Policy here. |
