Greno Woods £1 Million Appeal

Ideas for easy FUNdraising

Total raised so far: £688,347

Here are a few ideas for easy and fun events to raise funds for Sheffield Wildlife Trust, remember every penny counts ...

Wellies for Wildlife Day

• Dress up in all green clothing and wear your wellies to work!

Dress Down / Up Day

• Hold a dress down day, or a dress up 'posh' day at your place of work or a ...
• Fancy dress with a theme – ugly bug ball, bats and moths, super frog heroes
• Crazy wildlife hat / tie day / Easter wildlife bonnets
• Wrong trousers day

The Great Tidy Up

• How much litter can you collect in an hour?
• You could be sponsored for every 10 / 20 pieces of litter picked up
• This fundraising task could be done on your premises, or one of our reserves

Welly Walk for Wildlife

• Host a sponsored to walk to work in wellies, instead of driving
• We can help organise an added twist to this fundraising task: complete a sponsored walk in or around one of the reserves, maybe as a family event

Tea Party / Cake Sale

• Hold a cake stall and / or coffee morning
• You could bake a cake, decorated with a wildlife theme and get people to guess the weight

Host a Charity BBQ

• You can have wildlife games, quizzes and crafts for people to enjoy, as well as barbecue food

Recycle Challenge

• Set up a collecting point for old ink cartridges/mobile phones

• www.recyclingappeal.com - this company recycles old mobile phones and ink cartridges. Profits left over once ink cartridges have been recycled can be donated to the Sheffield Wildlife Trust

Coffee Break Mini-competitions

• Have a competition on your reception, or local fete e.g. guess how many toy spiders, or jelly worms there are in a jar

• Host a wildlife quiz
• Wildlife Poem / Haiku competition
• Best wildlife origami in 5 minutes
• Pin the nose on the badger
• Most accurate drawn frog (when blindfolded)

Wildlife Merchandise Sales

• Have a stall or box selling Sheffield Wildlife Trust merchandise – available on sale or return

Run a Marathon - or just a half!

• Nominate the Sheffield Wildlife Trust as your chosen charity
• We are one of the nominated charities for the Sheffield Half Marathon

For further information, ideas, support or guidance please contact Nicky Moore, our Fundraising Officer at: n.moore@wildsheffield.com