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ABBA Night – there’s loads you can do from karaoke from hiring a coach and going to see the musical in London.

Angling Competition – have prizes for the biggest fish, the most caught and for the person with the most impressive hunch while waiting for a bite.

Anti-Valentine’s Day Party – you could hold a sponsored ‘Ignore the Opposite Sex’ day.

Auction of Promises – sell things like washing a car, walking a dog or something like fetching the teas.

Australia Day – hold a barbie with snags, shrimps and stubbies while holding an Australian quiz asking questions like who won the Ashes in 2005?

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Ball – organise a dinner and dance event at a local hall and decorate it accordingly.

Balloon Pop – why not dress as a balloon man by attaching balloons to your clothes. Then wander around in your fancy new balloon outfit asking people to pay to get an opportunity to pop one of the balloons. Inside put you’ve won/haven’t won bits of paper and if someone wins they can dig their hand in the lucky dip bin. Have a few people dress up in similar balloon outfits and make it a competition. You can hide in lifts and round corners to maximise the impact.

Barbecue – great on their own or combined with other events. You can even give it a theme like vegetarian, healthy or fish.

Bean Growing Competition – organise a competition to see who can grow the biggest bean stalk. Sell the seeds as the entry fee (maybe include a pot and some soil) then everyone has to try and grow the biggest stalk but it has to be grown somewhere onsite. Have a cut off date and then measure the stalks and award the biggest a prize.

Beard Shave – every site has someone who has had a beard for most of their life, shave it off and give their wife a surprise while raising money for charity.

Beer Festival – help organise one at your local pub/social club and then reap the rewards. Remember to drink sensibly.

Bingo – they’re easy to customise with things like fancy dress (dress as old ladies) or find an old style bingo caller who will do the ‘clickty click, 66’ type stuff. Barrow recently held one with a classic fish and chip supper.

Book Sale – there are many companies out there that will set up in your canteen once a month and sell books. They will then give you a percentage of the profits to give to charity. They run themselves once you done the initial setup.

Bowling Night – add extra things like a raffle, a buffet and a DJ.

Buffet Lunch – organise a special buffet lunch in a particular style or theme, for example Indian or Greek. You could then link it in with some entertainment like belly dancing or plate smashing.

Burping Competition – just buy some fizzy drinks and find a decibel meter. You could even expand the events and see how far people can get with burping the alphabet.

Bush Tucker Trial – just like in ‘I’m a Celebrity: Get me Out of Here’ get people to sponsor a team of people to eat such bizarre food such as cockroaches, kangaroos testicles and rats tails. With that on the menu you should be able to raise thousands - you just need to find someone hungry!

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Car Washing – Organise a car wash and set up a BBQ so while people wait for their car to be done they’re spending money at the BBQ.

Casino – these are great when you holding sports dinners or any black tie event. There are loads of companies out there who would be willing to help out.

Circus Skills – invite an expert to come in and help teach people some circus skills, things like how to ride a unicycle and juggling etc.

Coffee Morning – get your team or floor together for a tea break, try to come up with some ideas for fundraising like selling cakes or holding a small quiz.

Coin Collection – ask people to bring their unused or old foreign coins. Many charities will happily take these and covert them into English money.

Computer Game Tournament – something like FIFA soccer or similar, hire a big screen to play it on. You could even try and organise a 4 player game of something like Mario Kart or take it a step further and get together a few PCs linked together to play something like Unreal Tournament or Doom.

Cookery Competition – get a group of the sites best cooks to bake a selection of cakes or something similar. Go around the site selling pieces of the cake asking everyone to judge the cakes.

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Darts Games – you can play all sorts of games with a dart board and a set of darts. Search the internet and try holding a competition.

Doughnut Day – why not buy plenty of doughnuts and get people to try and eat as many as possible in a certain time.

Dragons Den – like the show on BBC2 but teams must pitch ideas to get £50 and make that £50 into as much money as possible. The winners are the ones who make the most.

Driving Challenge – on a quiet day or weekend use a section of your car park to create a driving challenge where people have to do a variety of manoeuvres in the fastest time. They could use their own cars or talk to a local garage and offer them the chance to promote a certain model on your site by loaning you one for a day.

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Exercise Bike Race – this is a good idea to hold during the winter months in your canteen or any community areas. Participants get sponsored for how far they can go and you also offer a prize for whoever goes the furthest.

Exhibitions – you might be able to find a local artist, art shop/dealer or art school that would be willing to stage an art exhibition in your canteen or community area. You could then sell them and take a cut of the profits for charity.

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Fancy dress – works for anything, especially a Pub crawl - please remember to drink sensibly.

Fireworks Display – organise one on site and sell tickets. Once everyone is there you have a captive audience so include other fundraising ideas like a BBQ.

Five–a-side Football Tournament – try to negotiate a discount with your local sports hall and challenge different floors/areas of your site to put a team together.

Foreign Currency – talk to a charity and see if they can provide envelopes so you only have to collect the money and stick it in an envelope.

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German Evening – dress up, drink litres of beer and eat sausages.

Give Up a Vice Month – give up something for lent like smoking, biting your nails or driving fast all for charity.

Go-karting – target people who drive sports cars on your site to take part in this evening. You can put a flyer under their windscreen wipers, challenging them to justify their driving skill.

Golf Day – people across BAE Systems love golf so it’s a great idea for getting people from the bottom to the top together to raise money.

Guessing Competition - for example guess the how man sweets in a jar or collect baby pictures of people in your floor and get people to match the names to the photos.

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Halloween – hold a jack-o-lantern competition. Sell the pumpkins to make the lanterns then once they’ve been sculptured organise a display and have people vote for their favourite. You could put a collection box in front of each lantern and let people vote with their money. The lantern that raises the most wins.

Hatters Tea Party – hold a tea part of just a day of wearing silly hats in your office. Charge those that do wear a hat a bit and those that don’t a lot, you can also have some especially silly hats spare for those who haven’t got one so they don’t feel left out.

Haunted House – organise a sleep over in a haunted house or hotel and get sponsored for your troubles. For extra money try doing it on Halloween.

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Ice-skating - organise a trip to you local ice rink and incorporate some other fund raising ideas like who can do a lap of the rink in the fastest time.

Italian Evening – there’s loads you could, for example you could get your canteen involved, have a driving erratically competition in an empty car park, dress as the mafia and collect money or even get the men in your office have over elaborate hair and spend the day gesticulating.

It’s a Knockout – this is something you can organise yourself by coming up with some games involving lots of water or you can bring the professionals in.

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Jail Break – Lock up a site director in a room and give them only their mobile phone and a calculator. They then have to ring round all their contacts and raise as much money as they can before you free them. Please make sure your hostage is willing.

Jam Making – it’s really fun to make the jam and it’s always fun to eat it.

Jazz Night – you could organise a trip to a local jazz club or talk to a local pub and try and arrange a jazz evening for charity. They are sure to help in the name of charity and they will no doubt have some good contacts.

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Karaoke Night – these are always popular, especially if you add it on to another event like a meal or leaving party. People can vote for their favourite singer by giving money. The one who raises the most wins.

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Leg, Back or Chest Waxing for Men – the closer to the bikini line the more money they will raise.

Line Dancing Night – these are great to do if you’re having a barn dance. You can make the moves up yourself or ask a professional for a bit of help in the name of charity. You can charge to join in and give a prize for the best dancer.

Lottery – there are lots of things you can do in your office regarding the lottery from creating a syndicate that gives a percentage of winnings to charity to have a bonus ball game where people chose a bonus ball and they get half of the pot of money if their balls comes up.

Lunchtime Learning – invite someone to give a lunchtime lecture or demonstration, like a chef.

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Martial Arts Display – anything like this is great as schools will happily come along for the experience and also the opportunity to entice new members. You can hold various events around this, for example a Japanese or Chinese themed buffet.

Make-up Demonstration – many companies will happily come in to do a free lunchtime demonstration for the opportunity to sell their products. The Body Shop for example does this and will give you a percentage of the profits. You just need to provide the audience.

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Netball – you could organise a site directors versus charity select team and have all directors raise money. If they raise over £20 they have to wear a netball skirt for the match and whoever raises the most has to wear one for a full day at work. Everyone will be queuing up to sponsor them!

Noisy Contest – the opposite of a sponsored silence and much more fun, just make sure you don’t annoy anyone.

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Odd Job Day – spend a day or a lunchtime going around your office asking if anyone has any odd jobs they need doing for a charitable contribution.

Office Olympics – organise some easy office orientate games like an office chair race, elastic band flicking, rubbish in the waste paper bin, stair race to the top of your building or escape the office where competitors have to start somewhere in your office and get as fast as they can to the exit, just remember to chose somewhere suitably challenging. Charge money for entry and if anyone asks it’s a great team building game. Please also remember to act sensibly and responsibly, we recommend that you consult an onsite health and safety representative.

Orienteering Day – hold your own orienteering day either around the grounds of your office or more further a field like your local woods.

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Pamper Party - You can get the girls round and do facials, manicures, makeup on each other and charge each person entry. Provide drinks and nibbles and live the New York life!

Pantomime – during the Christmas period organise a coach and invite staff and their families to a trip to a local pantomime.

Penalty Fines – for example if someone turns up late for a meeting, if someone forgets to turn off their mobile or if they’re fiddling with their Blackberry while someone is talking.

Play – get together some thespians on site and organise a play for the amusement of your colleagues.

Plane Pull – can also do it in fancy dress or invite other local businesses to put in a team, also get local press involved.

Plant Sale – these are a great idea during spring and the beginning of summer. You can hand out forms, taking orders and collecting money, then order the plants in bulk at a discount rate and once they are delivered people come and collect their order. It’s a great idea and has proved very popular.

Pool Competition – you could try to hire a pool table for your canteen and let people practice for a week before holding a tournament. Charge people to play and enter and also see if you can find a sponsor to help with the costs.

Paintball Trip – organise a paintball day and organise extra activities like a BBQ.

Pram Race – get people dressed up as babies and design a course to race them round in.

Printer Cartridge Recycle – most charities collect print used print cartridges, they will even supply the bags and a freepost address to send them to.

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Quiet Time – a sponsored silence, especially good if you work in a noisy office.

Quiz – this is a great way to bring people together.

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Raft Race – get teams together at a lake/reservoir and provide them with the materials to make a raft. Once the teams have made the raft they have to race it from one side to the other. You can make it more interesting by marking them for the speed of the build as well as things like the quality. You can then use these scores to create a starting grid for the race.

Real Man Competition – 2 weeks for contestants to grow the best moustache and sideburns they can. Charge an entry fee and goad contestants into participation. Give Yorkie bars as prizes.

Record Breaking Attempt – think you can beat eating 3 crackers in under 34.78 seconds or spinning a coin for longer than 19.37 seconds. What about running 50 meters in a 31 legged race in under 8.8 seconds.

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Shrapnel Bucket – encourage people to give up their 1p and 2p pieces. Collect enough and use one of the machines down the local supermarkets.

Sunflower Supper - are a sociable way to raise money for the Arthur Rank Hospice Charity. It can be as simple as a nibbles, to a small lunch to a full blown dinner party - the choice is yours! It can be held any time during the year, indoors or out. For more ideas on how to run a successful Sunflower Supper, please send us a message

Supermarket Bag Pack – talk to your local supermarket and offer to help packing bags. Just make sure you have a collection tin and a relevant t-shirt to make sure people know you’re doing it for charity.

Sweep Stakes – these work for everything from the Grand National to the last 16 of the FA Cup.

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Table Football Tournament – see if anyone knows someone with one that you can borrow or why not hire one for the day and negotiate a charity rate.

Talent Contest or Silly Talent Contest – for example playing a bicycle pump on your cheek.

Tartan Party – celebrate Burns Night (January 25th) by dressing in tartan, eating Haggis and seeing who can remember all the words to ‘To a Haggis’.

Tea @ 3 - is a simple and fun way to raise money for Arthur Rank Hospice Charity whether you're at work, school, home, your local community centre or park. All you need to do is ask people to donate money for having a cup of tea! If you would like to be more inventive with your tea party then feel free! There are many ways you can make your tea party into a fun event for all. For more information and ideas on how to run your event send us a message.

Tea Dance – why not organise one for the elderly people locally.

Treasure Hunt – organise one for around your site.

Tug-of-war – challenge another floor or another team to this – the losers buy the drinks and have to make a donation to charity.

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University Challenge – find the most highly educated people on your site and then find those that have worked their way up for the bottom and pit them against each other.

Unwanted Gift Sale – great idea for the New Year.

Used Stamp Collection – many charities can get money for used stamps. Ask around for a collection box.

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Valentine’s Event – take orders in advance and buy your roses directly from somewhere like Holland. You’ll make loads of money and the quality will be so much better than those last minute ones from a supermarket/petrol station. Try www.fwxflowers.co.uk if you’re in the UK. You could also organise a lover’s zip line where two people go down at once. You could even have them stop halfway for a photo.

Variety Show – probe you colleagues to discover their hidden talents and then showcase them in a talent show. You never know what you’ll find - one team found out a co-worker was a hypnotist in his spare time!

Vegetarian Evening – prove to the meat eating world that being a veggie is great and healthy.

Videoathon – share your love of musicals, Star Wars or old school Kung Fu movies by holding an evening of them.

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Walkathon – but instead of walking somewhere have everyone who wants to participate wear a step counter. They try to record 10,000 steps a day and then this can then be represented on a map to show how far, in theory, they’ve walked. For example in Austin, Texas they combined their totals in an attempt to walk across America and back. Have people sponsor you for how many steps you plan on doing and have prizes for those who walked the most and one for the person who walked the most in one day. You can also sell pedometers and hold various events along the way that involve healthy living.

Wet Fish Slap – auction silly things like offering someone the opportunity to slap you around the face with a wet fish. You are guaranteed to get lots of interest and a good audience just because it is so bizarre. Other ideas you might like to try include pouring jellied eels down someone’s trousers or the chance to choose a person’s clothes for a day at work.

Wine at Nine - is the perfect way to arrange a get together, it can be held almost any time and any where. So why not host one in your home, garden, favourite restaurant or pub. It's an easy and fun way to fundraise for Arthur Rank Hospice Charity.
Your party can be as simple as arranging a small social gathering with colleagues or friends at a local watering hole or as extravagant as throwing a themed party with lots of wine on offer. For an information pack, please send us a message

Wine Tasting Evening – invite an expert in to discuss and teach the finer points of wine tasting. Talk to your local supermarket about getting a discount for the wine.

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Xenodocheionology (love of hotels) – organise a hotel hunt in your local area where the aim is for teams to collect as many hotel brochures in a certain amount of time. The prize could be some towels and bathrobes.

Xenodochial (kindness to strangers) – have a competition to see how kind you can be to strangers. You could organise a points system varying from 1 point for saying hello to a stranger, 2 points for letting a car out at a junction. Just be careful you don’t do it near any open prisons.

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Yellow Theme Night – everything is yellow from the Coldplay song playing when they arrive to the food they eat like Bananas, yellow peppers, lemons. Yellow activities could include cheese tasting, a timed yellow Dyson vacuum cleaning challenge or even a flower arranging competition using only yellow flowers.

Yoga-thon – get a group of yoga fans together and see who can last the longest. You could give the prize of a professional massage for the winner.

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Zodiac Reading – invite a fortune teller into your canteen and get them to read people’s fortunes. Take a cut of the profits and give them to charity.

Zoo Trip – organise a family day out to a zoo. Hire a coach and give any profits from the trip to charity.

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