Fundraising ideas

At work

• Have a 'dress down day' and charge colleagues £1 to come to work in casual clothes, to wear a silly tie or an outrageous pair of earrings!
• Ask your boss to donate a small prize and hold a raffle.
• Start a cartridge recycling programme.
• Ask your staff canteen to give the menus animal names for one week. Get them to put a collecting box at the till and ask for a donation from anyone who goes for those dishes!
• If you have a smoking area, charge smokers a small fee to enter all week - all proceeds to the RSPCA.
• Ask your colleagues to bring in a tin of pet food each. Donate them to your local RSPCA branch or animal centre.
• Contact your local RSPCA branch and ask them what activities they have planned - put up a poster for them on your staff noticeboard to help them with publicity.

At home

• If you go to the gym, get friends and family to sponsor you on the treadmill, rowing machine, stepper and in the pool for your workouts.
• Get your local landlord to run a pub quiz and donate the entry fees to the RSPCA.
• If you belong to a golf club or any other sporting club, hold a small raffle or run a 'slave auction' in the bar.
• Organise a jumble sale.
• Have a good clear out and donate any unwanted clothes or bric-a-brac to your local RSPCA charity shop.
• Hold a coffee morning at mother and toddler groups.

Kids

• Join in the RSPCA/Jet Tec cartridge recycling scheme.
• Organise a sponsored dog walk with friends in the park.
• Do a sponsored swim or silence.
• Hold a bring and buy sale at guides/brownies/scouts/youth clubs etc.
• Get friends to bring in pictures of their pets and make up an animal board. Charge a small entry fee and get everyone you know to guess whose pet belongs to who.
• Have a pop quiz and charge people to enter.

By organising or participating in a fundraising event, you will be helping to raise much-needed funds for your local RSPCA branch or RSPCA HQ.