Abseiling: Sponsored

Air display show: model aircraft flying clubs may do a flying day to raise cash – you could have side stalls, other events going on at the same time.

Be Silly day: Get sponsored to be silly. Exchange clothes with your other half, shave half your beard or hair, wear your clothes back to front, dance everywhere and tell jokes to everyone you meet.

Bean Bath; Get sponsored to spend a day in a bath full of baked beans – maybe somewhere more daring so everyone can see you!

Bingo: Ask your local bingo to hold an evening in aid of the shelter.

Black tie ball: Put on your best frock and dinner suit for a night of glitz. Hire out a venue and invite colleagues and friends to a three-course meal and dancing. Ask your local jazz or pop band to perform. Other themes for the ball could be 20,s masked and toga. Tickets could start from £20.

Car treasure hunt:  a route of about 30 miles is best – sell refreshments at the start and at the end of the hunt, while people wait for the results - maybe the local garage could donate a prize

Casino Evening; Hire a gaming table and hall for the evening. Or enjoy a game at your friends house or local pub, everyone put money into the pot to play.

Coffee Morning; Hold your own coffee morning, ask your friends for a donation for a coffee and biscuit.

Comedy hour: Hold a comedy stand-up show during your lunch hour. Charge people to attend

Community helpers: Walk your neighbour’s dog for a fee, start up a fancy dress car wash service in your community centre car park or church.

Changing rooms: Transform your office/classroom into a completely different places, then pay to spend the day wearing clothing of that particular theme.

Cat tricks: Ask your cat to do a sponsored pounce

Cricket match: an event on behalf of the shelter

Custard pie fight: let the local media know

Disco ; Have fun with a themed disco night i:e Saturday Night Fever

Disco night: Hold a nightclub in your school or college. Everyone brings a CD

Dress code: Have a casual dress day at work, school, and university. Everyone pays to do this.

Dance-athon: Host a day of non-stop dancing (disco, belly or foxtrot/tango or line-dancing).

Dog Stadium: Ask the local dog track if you can hold an event there in aid of the shelter

Doggie Walks: Hold a sponsored dog walk.

Dinner party: Hold a fundraising meal at home – sell tickets for people to attend

Darts night: sponsored

Dry cornflakes: Bet who will finish the bowl of dry cornflakes first

Fashion show – recycled: Get all you family and friends involved, charge an entry fee. Auction off clothes at the end of the show? Good quality clothes that are perhaps unwanted gifts?

Football Tournament ; Schedule fixtures and charge people to enter a team. Ask local business to donate prizes.

Game Show; Create or mock your own TV game show in a local community centre, local pub or at your house. Try old favorites like Family Fortunes, Play Your Cards Right Or Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

Garage sale: Get the neighbours to rummage through their houses for hidden treasures they would be happy to part with, and then hold a sale on your street

Guest Speaker: Invite a guest speaker to give a free talk to your social group or in a local hall.

Grow your own: Buy packets of seeds, grow plants and sell them at a profit

Hold a fete: Get all your friends involved and hold a fete in your local street, hall or community centre. Sell homemade jams, art craft, plants, cakes. Face painting and a bouncy castle?

International food evening: Everyone cooks a dish from a different country of their choice, then the food is sold at the event. Collect all the recipes together and sell them as a book at the end of the night.

Money snake: Mark out a long wiggly line 30 meters long; get people to donate their 2p pieces to complete the snake – When its finished you will have £25

New Year Resolutions ; We all try and start the New Year with good intentions, but next time get sponsored in aid of  our animals- it may give you more incentive to stick to it.

Night in: Stray in on Friday and Saturday and donate the money you saved.

Office dares

Office/School idol: Hold a Pop Idol competition.

Outward Bound; Get sponsored to take part in some rock climbing, hiking or camping in the great outdoors.

Parachute Jump; For the brave and more adventures person you could get sponsored to take a jump.

Pound 4 pound: Ask everyone you meet to give you just one £1coin.

Poetry and music night: Hold a recital for your family and friends, neighbours. Sing songs, play instruments and recite poetry. The audience pays to watch

Pupils V Teachers: Hold a quiz night.

Quiz question: Hold a quiz at your local pub.

Race Night; Ask you local pub to have a race night. A typical evening would consist of eight prerecorded races shown on a big screen after bets have taken place. The tapes are normally supplied by the race operators. Look into this prior as some gaming regulations may apply.

Reunion day (a): for pupils, teachers or family who haven’t met in years – donations to the shelter.

Reunion day (b): Got a dog or cat from the shelter? A reunion at the shelter for the animals, tickets sold and proceeds to the shelter

Run /Walk for cash: Get active and get sponsored by taking part in running events. There are a number of these races you can participate in all over the UK.

Hold a fancy dress sponsored walk

Spelling bee: Look in the dictionary, pick the most difficult words to spell and hold a quiz with it

Step back in time: Go back to the 70s or even the 60s by coming to work in clothes that define these colourful decades.   Perhaps you were a New Romantic or a Flower Child

Skill auction: Offer your skills and services to the highest bidder. You could offer to fetch your colleague’s lunch, tidy their desk and do their filing.

Sweepstakes: Hold a sweepstake for the Grand National, Wimbledon, football matches and other major events.

Sports battle: Organise a knockout sports tournament in your local park, be it football, tennis, Frisbee or rounders.  Everyone who takes part or watches the match pays a fee. Hold a golf, darts event.

Social fun: Raise money for us at your next social – go bowling, ice-skating,  paint-balling, Swimming

Talent Competition ; Host you own talent competition in the X Factor style, with a panel of judges and let the audience cast their vote.  Charge people to enter the competition and sell tickets for the big night, you never know you might discover the next Kyle or Take That!

Talk don’t type: Have a non-email day at work. Everyone pays a fee to take part and pays if they break the rules

TV out: Get sponsored for going without the TV for a week/give up junk food for a month.

Treasure hunt: at work, at home, in the park – invite loads of people

Ugly tie competition

Unwanted Presents ; Ask your local community centre or hall to let you hold a post –Christmas sale. Give people the opportunity to sell all those unwanted presents, and help raise money for the shelter.

Variety night: You could have dancers, magicians and a ventriloquist.

Whip around

Who’s the baby: Get everyone to bring in a photo of themselves as babies, then charge people to guess identities.

Walk don’t ride: Step away from the lift! If you work in a high-rise building, introduce a ‘lift-toll’ for a day and charge everyone to take the lift.

Wacky races: Get several teams together to enjoy various races, three-legged, egg and spoon, Skipping, sack races.

Xmas Hamper ; Make up a Christmas hamper by asking for donations, and then raffle it at work or your local pub.

Yard of Ale; Organize a competition between yourself and others to see who can drink the yard of ale (or soft drink) in the quickest time. Charge people to enter into the competition.

Yorkshire pudding: sponsor how many you can eat (Aunt Bessie makes the best)

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