• Cake sale - find hundreds of recipes on BBC Good Food website.
• Car wash - you only need a sign, buckets, sponges and water!
• Dress down day - ask your school to hold a non-uniform day, or your office to hold a casual-wear day in aid of MWB.
• Balloon release - charge per balloon: everyone ties a card with their name and a message asking the finder to contact the organiser to their balloon. Release them, and the owner of the balloon that travels the furthest (within a given time) wins a prize.
• Host a dinner party - you could use Dinner4Good to help you organise your dinner and raise funds.
• Ebay your clutter - sell your old books/clothes/DVDs for MWB. Every time you list an item for charity, you’ll get a fee credit on your basic insertion and final value fees equal to the percentage you donate. So if you donate 50% of your selling price to a charity, eBay will waive 50% of your fees.
• Do a sponsored…run/walk/knit/cycle/swim/fast/head shave/bungee jump/give up/baked bean bath/anything you like. Click here for a ready-to-print sponsorship form. Find out more here about holding a ‘Knitting Without Borders’ event.
• Run a bazaar - you could hold it in your church. Sell food and gifts, have games, offer facepainting and talent competitions, as well as give out information about MWB.
• Auction of promises - auction off your ’services’, such as cleaning, cooking, tutoring, wrapping gifts, to the highest bidder. You could try using this website or hold an event for bidders to attend.
• Events - hold a tea dance, costume party, coffee morning, brunch or ball. Or contact the office for Eastern European themed ideas.
• Seasonal fundraising - Easter egg hunt, carol singing, ’sponsor a bauble’.
• Odd jobs - babysitting, cleaning, mowing the lawn, shopping, decorating.
• Litter pick-up - ask people to sponsor you for each bag of litter you collect in your local park or area. It’s a great way to help your community whilst supporting MWB.
• Name the teddy - Make a list of names including the correct one and charge people to choose a name. The person who picks the correct name wins the bear!
• Sports contests - egg and spoon race, five-a-side football tournament, welly-hurling, or hold a whole afternoon of events.

For more information about any of the ideas on this page, contact us. If you’re planning an event let us know, we’d love to support you in any way we can!