Easter fundraising ideas for your supporters

The Easter period is a brilliant opportunity to engage families in your cause and provide fun activities for everyone to get involved in. Many of these ideas are easy to organise and accessible for supporters of any age.

 

Here’s nine Easter fundraising ideas to raise money for your cause.

 

 

Easter Showstopper bake-off

 

With the popularity of Great British Bake Off and people having more time during the lockdowns to hone their baking skills, why not encourage supporters to organise an Easter Showstopper bake-off at their work?

 

Participants can pay a small fee to enter their Easter Showstoppers and the cakes can be sold afterwards as part of a bake sale, or they could be auctioned individually.

 

 

Easter bonnet parade

 

A fun Easter fundraising idea for schools, which will also teach them about an old Easter tradition, is an Easter bonnet parade. Children can either accessorise one of their parent’s hats or they can make their own bonnet.

 

They then give a small donation to take part in the parade where a winner will be chosen. As well as a great idea for schools, this is a lovely event for a local community too.

 

 

Easter hamper raffle

 

Contact some local businesses to ask if they’d donate an item or two to your Easter hamper raffle. Items could include Easter eggs, a bottle of wine, traditional Easter food such as a lovely cut of lamb, jars of condiments and much more.

 

If you have enough items, you could do themed hampers, such as a chocolate hamper, a home and garden hamper, a bath products hamper etc.

 

 

Guess the number of eggs

 

People love a guessing challenge. Fill a jar with small Easter eggs and then charge people to guess how many are in the jar. The closest guess wins the jar of Easter eggs!

 

 

Afternoon tea with the Easter Bunny

 

Organise a big afternoon tea event, that’s ticketed, for children to meet the Easter Bunny. This can be organised as an event by your charity or you could encourage supporters to host their own ‘meet the Easter Bunny’ parties where they ask guests to make a donation.

 

 

Online Easter challenge

 

Looking for a fun challenge that creates user-generated content for your social channels? Create a challenge such as doing ten Bunny hops around the garden, the local park or in the living room (dressing up as a bunny is optional!), then ask them to tag five friends to do the same and make a donation to your charity.

 

Don’t forget to ask them to tag your charity in their posts, Reels or Stories so that you can thank them for taking part. You may also want to create a hashtag for your challenge so that you can see how many people are taking part, when you click on the hashtag.