Fundraising at Work

We have a complied a list of top fundraising activities. Some are a little wild, but we all need some fun in our lives!

In the office

• Talk don't type

  Have a non-email day at work. Everyone pays a fee to take part, and pays another fee if they break the rules.

• Walk don't ride

  Sir, step away from the lift! If you work in a high rise building, introduce a ‘lift toll’ for a day and charge everyone £2 each time they take the lift.

• Step back in time

  Go back to the 80s or 70s or even the 60s by coming to work in clothes that defined these colourful decades. Perhaps you were a New Romantic or a Flower Child. Everyone pays £2 to take part.

• Famous for a day

  All your colleagues put the names of their favourite celebrities into a hat and pay to pick a name. You really have to try to be the person you select, for example, by adopting their mannerisms.

• Karaoke mayhem

  Show your colleagues what a good singer you are (or not!) by taking to the microphone for an afternoon of karaoke singing. Maybe a friend has a machine you can borrow or perhaps you could hire one for the day. Participants and spectators pay a fee to join in.

• Office dares

  Get sponsored to get a particular word or phrase into a report or meeting. For example, the words can be taken from titles of famous songs or from the title of your favourite TV show.

• Who's the baby?

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

• Give it up

  Get sponsored to give up coffee for a month and to stay away from the staffroom vending machine.

• Comedy hour

  Have your colleagues howling with laughter by holding a comedy stand-up show during your lunch hour. Charge people to attend.

• 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.

• Ugly tie competition

  Get all the males in the office to bring in the ugliest tie that they own then everyone pays a fee to vote for the worst. The winner of the most horrible tie receives a prize.

• Sweepstakes

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

• Collect it

  Take a collection box around the office or leave it at reception.

• Donate it

  Get your staff to donate all their unwanted gifts or even purchase a little something enhance herts could use as a raffle prize.

Sporting focus

• Sports battle

  Organise a knockout sports tournament in your local park, be it football, tennis, frisbee or rounders. You can compete with other departments in your company. Everyone who takes part or watches the match pays a fee.

• Join the London-Paris Cycle event

  Experience picturesque England and Northern France at a whole new pace, before celebrating your victory under the Eiffel Tower.

• Run for cash

  Get sponsored by taking part in one of our running events. We have places in the British 10K London road race every July. You can run through historic London... feel the buzz!

• Leap from a plane

  We have a sponsored tandem skydive event every year. Raise £400 in sponsorship and jump for free.

Old favourites

• Have a picnic

  Spend your lunchtime in your local park with a delicious picnic. Everyone brings along a treat of their choice and pays a fee to join in.

• Bring and buy sale

  Get everyone to sell their unwanted but good quality items to raise money for enhance herts. You can sell anything from books to jewellery.

• Social fun

  Raise money for us at your next office social. Why not get a few teams together and go bowling, ice-skating, ceroc dancing or paintballing?

• Job swap

  Get sponsored to do a colleague's job and they can get sponsored to do yours.

• A quiz question

  Don't remember who shot Phil Mitchell? Well ask one of your colleagues by organising a soap quiz. If you consider yourself a movie or a music buff, then why not hold film or a pop quiz? A general knowledge quiz also goes down well.