Fundraising ideas

Why not:

• Celebrate the freedom we have to offer our time and skills by holding an Auction of Promises?

Get parents and the wider community involved and encourage people to pledge particular skills they have (e.g making a cake, babysitting, decorating, gardening, hairdressing, car maintenance – to name but a few!) and then hold an auction where people can bid to buy those skills.

The money raised will make a real difference to anti-slavery projects around the world, and it’s a great excuse for a good social evening.

• Hold a Cake and Biscuit sale at school to celebrate the fact that we enjoy sweet things.

If possible, make it a make it a Fair Trade cake sale and encourage people to use fairly traded chocolate, sugar, nuts etc.

• Make a Giant Human Chain by linking arms and see how many people you can get involved in the chain!

The Guinness Book of Records says the record is 5 million people (over 650 miles!)

Ok, so perhaps you can’t beat that – but can you make a circle right around your school?

Ask participants to pay a certain amount to take part (or to collect sponsorship) and then form the chain.

When you’ve finished you can break apart as a symbol of freedom.

Why not invite someone from the local press along to write an article about why you’re doing it and to raise awareness of 2007?

• Hold a Non-uniform Day to celebrate the freedom of choice we enjoy to spend money on clothes, and to have our own style.

Invite pupils to pay a certain amount of money for the privilege of not wearing uniform.

• Organise a Sponsored Silence – with a difference...

Slaves were forced to survive in very cramped conditions for weeks on end with no space to move around.

Ask the participants to lie on the floor without moving in the shape of a slave ship (see the photos) and to stay silent and still for a set time (15 minutes?)

For ideas on making a sail for the slave ship, see below!

These are just a few ideas to get you started – you may have lots more!

Be creative and if you can come up with some other ideas, let us know!

Send us ideas and pictures and we’ll put them up on our website.

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