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Fundraising ideas

Dress Down Day / Wear something orange day

Take part in our Dress Down Day it happens on the last Friday in March every year However, if you can’t do it on that day you can hold one on any day that suits you. If you dress down at work already, wear something orange instead.

Everyone pays £2 to take part and to maximise the amount you raise you can do other activities on the day to have even more fun.

Holiday day raffle

Ask your work to donate a day’s leave for someone and raffle it off. The person with the winning raffle ticket wins an extra day of annual leave.

Potluck lunch

Along with a few colleagues, take lunch to work for everybody. People can eat as much as they want for a donation of £5. You could hold a raffle or tombola at the same time to raise even more cash on the day.

X-Factor day

Show your colleagues what a good singer you are (or not) by taking the mic for an afternoon of karaoke. Participants and spectators pay a fee to join in, or you can collect sponsorship to sing a song, or ask people to donate money for you to stop if you’re out of tune.

Famous for a day

Ask all your colleagues to put the names of their favourite celebrities into a hat and pay to pick a name. You then have to try to be the person you select, for example, by adopting their mannerisms. Make it even more fun by asking people to dress up as the celebrity.

Walk don't drive

Leave the car at home and get sponsored to walk or ride to work for a week / month. It will be good for you as well as the environment.

Quiz time

Hold a quiz over lunch. People and / or teams pay a fee to take part with a prize for the winning person and / or team. Ask your boss or company to donate a prize.

Step back in time

Go back to the 60s, 70s or 80s by going to work in clothes that defined these colourful decades. Everyone pays £2 to take part.

Coffee morning

Send out invitations to all your colleagues, neighbouring business and suppliers and hold a coffee morning in your board room. Wait until November and you can take part with hundreds of others during our Coffee Morning Month.

Bake sale day

People love home-baking, so have a home-baking sale at work every Monday morning for a month and see how much you can raise from your colleagues having a sweet tooth.

Who's the baby?

Get everyone to bring in a photo of themselves as babies and then charge people £2 to guess their identities.

Give it up

Get sponsored to give up coffee for a month or to stay away from the staff room vending machine.

Talk don't type

Have a non-email day at work.  Everyone gives a donation to take part and if they break the rules they pay a fine.

Running, Walking and Active Events

Take part in a run, walk or active event on your own or as part of a team from work.

Visit www.myeloma.org.uk/events for more details.