Festive Fundraising Activities
Below you’ll find our top festive fundraising ideas, so you can support CLAPA this Christmas.
If you’re asking friends and family to donate to CLAPA, the easiest way to do this is to create either a Facebook Fundraiser or a JustGiving page. That will also make it easier for you to see who has donated, so you can thank people for taking part in your fundraiser! If you have any questions, our friendly team would be more than happy to help: [email protected].
How to set up an online fundraiser
Mulled Wine and Mince pies
Gather your friends and family together for an evening of mulled wine and mince pies, to spread some festive cheer. You can include these handy recipes with your invitation and ask those who join you to make a donation of £5 – or whatever they can afford – to CLAPA.
BBC Good Food’s Mulled Wine recipe
BBC Good Food’s Non-Alcoholic Christmas drink recipes
Christmas Scavenger Hunt
Keep the kids entertained by running your own Christmas scavenger hunt for classmates, family and friends. Ask parents to make a donation to CLAPA in return for their child taking part.
Here’s 10 Christmassy items to get you started, but of course, you can adapt this to suit you, or add more:
Something red, an elf or a Santa, wrapping paper, Christmas bauble, woolly hat, mince pie, Christmas jumper, welly boot, Christmas card and tinsel.
A Christmas Window Display, Or Go Large and Decorate Your Whole House!
Decorate your window with a fantastic festive window display and invite your neighbours to make a donation. People can either give online or you could nominate one evening for people to come around and leave a donation in one of our collection boxes.* Better still, go big and decorate the outside of your house with lots of lights as well as Santa and his helpers. Don’t forget to send us a photo of your display so we can share some festive cheer on our social media pages!
*Please contact our friendly fundraising team on [email protected] to order a collection box.
CLAPA Christmas Quiz
Bring the fun with a festive Christmas Quiz! You could write your own questions from scratch, or find inspiration with the many Christmas quizzes already available online. Ask everyone to don their favourite Christmas jumper or hat and get quizzing in return for a donation to CLAPA. We’d suggest asking for a donation of £10 per quiz team or whatever people can afford.
Festive Facebook Fundraiser
If you have no idea what to ask Santa for this Christmas or if you’re not looking forward to receiving more socks, you could set up a Facebook Fundraiser for CLAPA. Ask your friends and family to donate instead of giving you presents this year, and know that you’ll be making a huge difference to those affected by cleft across the UK.
How to set up a Facebook fundraiser
Other festive ideas:
- Boxing day dip – find your local event and join in for CLAPA
- Festive fivers – Ask everyone to write their name on a £5 note, pop it into a hat and pick a winner. Then split the pot between the lucky winner and CLAPA.
- Secret Santa – Instead of spending £5 on Secret Santa presents, ask those taking part to set the limit to £4 and have everyone donate the spare £1 to CLAPA.
- Jingle bells – At your Christmas party, put a collection box next to the DJ stand and ask people to make a donation every time they request a track.
Our services always keep our small team very busy! We know it’s sometimes hard to imagine what your fundraising can achieve, so here are some examples:
Thank you for supporting CLAPA this festive season.