Interact Worldwide Events
What's New
We are currently recruiting runners for the London Marathon April 2008, walkers for Trek Ethiopia in October 2008 and potential skydivers throughout the year!
Whatever suits you the most - from real challenges to fun events:
Swim... dance...run... knit... skydive....
Have a look at our suggested list of activities - some that Interact Worldwide are organising some that you can organise on our behalf. Though we're sure you can come up with lots of ideas of how to raise vital funds for us - so please email events@interactworldwide.org with your idea and we will add it to our list - remember to come back and check it has been added!
You can download a blank posters to help promote your event here or the complete fundraising pack here.
For more information on our events use the menu on the left hand side to navigate. Alternatively you can request more information by completing and returning this form or email us at info@interactworldwide.org.
A
- Abseil
- Aerobics: sponsored marathon/competition
- Antiques fair
- Arts or crafts stall/exhibition/fair
- Auctions
B
- Bad hair/tie day
- Baked beans bath
- Barbecue
- Barn Dance
- Belfast City Marathon
- Bike rides
- Bits and Pieces (music quiz)
- BMX bike display, or competition
- Book/comic sale
- Boot sale
- Bouncy castle - it could be a sponsored event, eg number of bounces per minute!
- Bring and buy sale
C
- Cabarets/talent shows
- Car boot sale
- Car washing (in schools grounds)
- Card delivery service, pupils pay for delivery within the school
- Carol singing
- Charity shop
- Christmas cards - making and selling them, or selling bought cards
- Class collections
- Coffee mornings
- Collections of money at speech day
- Collections of other things (eg waste paper, bottle tops, coins, stamps)
- Competitions
- Computer games knockout, best if played in pairs
- Concerts/recitals/plays/shows
- Cook books - writing a class or school cookbook that can then be sold
- Cookery contest (eg Ready Steady Cook - could be the teachers!)
D
- Dance marathon
- Dinner dance/ball
- Discos/raves
- Donkey Derby
- Dragon boat race
- Dry Cornflakes/Cream Cracker-eating contest
E
- Easter Eggstravaganza
- Easter egg hunt
- Easter party
- Edinburgh Marathon
- Egg rolling competition
- Ethiopia Trekking Challenge
F
- Face painting
- Fairs, fetes, bazaars, etc
- Fancy dress party/day
- Fashion show (with clothes made by pupils or donated by local shops)
- Film show/premiere
- Fireworks party (adults to organise)
- Flower/fruit/vegetable show/sale/display/stall
- Foam party - fill paddling or swimming pool with foam and then party!
- Football tournament
G
- Gansters and Molls Ball
- Game shows (eg Stars In Their Eyes, Wheel of Fortune, Blockbusters, Blind Date etc)
- Gigs (local bands play in school)
- Gladiators
- Go-Karting
- Golf day
- Gymkhana
- Great North Run
H
- Hair beading/plaiting
- Halloween party
- Hot-dog/burger stand
- Hydro 5K Women's Fun Run in London, Liverpool and Birmingham
I
- International Women's Day - Event
- It's a Knockout competition
J
- Judo competition or display (get your club to orgnise a fundraisier)
- Jumble sale
K
- Karaoke competition/display (adults to organise)
- Kite flying
- Kenya Trek
L
- Line dancing
- London Marathon
- Longest chain of paper-clips, line of coins, etc
- Lottery - can be Chocco Lotto where numbers are put onto sweet packets
M
- Man O Man (or Teacher O Teacher)
- Marathon events - table tennis, aerobics, line dancing, badminton, etc (in shift teams)
- Midsummer masked ball
- Midnight film shows/parties/etc
- Mufti/non-uniform/denim/tracksuit/etc day
- Murder Mystery evening
N
- New Year's Eve dance/party
- Nearly new table top stall
- Night-time hide and seek, using torches
- No work day, students choose what they want to do
O
- Old-time music hall
- One hundred club - raising £100 every week, half term or term, or a fundraising club with 100 members in it
P
- Pancake day race/competition
- Panel games
- Parachute jump
- Parties - school birthday/anniversary, etc
- Penalty shoot-out competition
- Penny mile, where coins are lined up and measured - can be done in teams
- Pet show
- Photographic competitions
- Pool party
- Pool tournament
- Pram push
Q
- Quizzes
R
- Races
- Raffles (see guidelines)
- Rapping contest, show or sponsored event
- Red Ribbon Collection
- Running events
S
- Saints' days parties/theme day
- Santa's grotto
- School fair
- Scoff-a-hotdog competition (eg ‘who can eat two in the fastest time possible'!)
- Shakespeare marathon
- Silly games afternoons: egg & spoon, silly races, wet sponge throwing, etc
- Skateboard display
- Skydive
- Slide evening
- Soap episodes show or theme day
- Sponsored
- Sports contests
- Stalls at fairs etc (eg cakes, plants, books)
- Strawberry and cream tea party
- Student-teacher swap day
- Swap-shop
- Swim-a-thon
- Summer Nights Ball
T
- Tandem - parachute jump/skydive
- Tea party
- Teacher's v students - you decide!
- Teddy bears' picnic
- Theme days/evenings (eg countries - French, Spanish; soap operas, past-eras etc)
- Throwing wet sponges at a person/teacher in stocks, great at a summer fair!
- Tombola
- Top of the Pops party
- Treasure hunt
- TreKenya
- Trek Ethiopia
- Tuck shop, where the profits go to ChildLine - getting supplies donated?
U
- Uniform days (for schools without a uniform and/or for teachers)
- University challenge
V
- Variety show
- Veteran Car Rally
- Viz comedy night
W
- Wacky Races
- Whist drive
- White Elephant stall
- Who's that baby? (students and staff bring in photos of themselves as babies)
- World AIDS Day Collection
X
- X-Files day (Use your imagination - the ideas are out there!)
- Xmas fair/panto/party
Y
- Yacht race, etc
- Young Enterprise Scheme run by students, donate part of profits (eg making and selling cards)
Z
- Zany parties
