A
- Abseil - a group of people could abseil down a local building
- Aerobics: sponsored marathon/competition
- Afternoon tea sale
- Ale tasting competition
- Antiques fair
- Arts or crafts stall/exhibition/fair
- Arm wrestling
- Art fair
- Assault course
- Athletic event
- Auction of favours/promises
B
- Backward walk
- Badminton tournament
- Bad hair/tie day
- Baked beans bath
- Balloon race
- Barbecue
- Barn dance
- Barrel rolling contest
- Beard shave
- Bed push race
- Bingo
- Blindfold challenge
- BMX bike display, or competition
- Book/comic sale
- Boot sale
- Bouncy castle – it could be a sponsored event, eg number of bounces per minute!
- Bowls competition
- Brick laying contest
- Bring and buy sale
C
- Cabarets/talent shows
- Caption competition
- Car boot sale
- Car treasure hunt
- Car washing
- Caribbean night
- Carol singing
- Celebrity auction
- Charity shop – open once per week selling donated items
- Cheese and wine party
- Chess tournament
- Christmas cards – making and selling them, or selling bought cards
- Clay pigeon shoot
- Coffee mornings
- Coins in a fountain
- Competitions
- Computer games knockout, best if played in pairs
- Concerts/recitals/plays/shows
- Cook books – writing a cookbook that can then be sold
- Cookery contest (eg Ready Steady Cook)
- Cookie challenge – a Bibby Line fundraising initiative involving ship/flag shaped cookies
- Cow pat lottery
- Craft fair
- Cricket match
D
- Dance marathon
- Darts competition
- Dinner dance/ball
- Disco
- Donkey derby
- Dragon boat race
- Drum marathon
- Dry cornflakes/cream cracker-eating contest
- Duck race
E
- Easter egg hunt
- Easter party
- Egg eating/rolling competition
- Expedition
- Equipment hire
- Evening of song
- Exhibitions
- Expert talk
F
- Face painting
- Fairs, fetes, bazaars, etc
- Family fun day
- Fancy dress party/day/pub crawl/competition
- Fashion show
- Film show/premiere
- Fireworks party
- Five-a-side tournament
- Flower/fruit/vegetable show/sale/display/stall
- Foam party
- Football tournament
- French evening
- Fun run
- Funny face competition
G
- Gala evening
- Game shows (eg Stars In Their Eyes, Wheel of Fortune, Blockbusters, Blind Date etc)
- Garage sale
- Garden party
- Gigs
- Gladiators/Gladifakers
- Go karting
- Golf match
- Gymkhana
- Guess the weight of ……
- Guess the name of ……
H
- Hair beading/plaiting
- Hair shave
- Halloween party
- Holiday photo competition
- Honesty box
- Hot-dog/burger stand
- Hurl the haggis competition
I
- Indoor games evening
- International evening
- Italian evening
J
- Jazz evening
- Jogging
- Judo competition or display
- Jumble sale
K
- Karaoke competition/display
- Kidnap and ransom
- Kite flying
- Kiss selling
- Knit-in
- Knobbly knee contest
L
- Ladies nights
- Lawn mowing
- Leap for charity
- Lecture lunch
- Line dancing
- Log rolling
- Long distance walk/cycle
- Longest chain of paper-clips, line of coins, etc
- Lottery – can be Chocco Lotto where numbers are put onto sweet packets
- Lucky straws
- Luncheons
M
- Man O Man (or Boss O Boss)
- Marathon events - table tennis, aerobics, line dancing, badminton, etc (in shift teams)
- Market stall
- May fair
- Medieval banquet
- Mile of pennies
- Midsummer masked ball
- Midnight film shows/parties/etc
- Mountain bike race
- Mufti/non-uniform/denim/tracksuit/etc day
- Murder mystery evening
- Musical evening
- Mystery tour
N
- Name the baby
- Name that tune
- National days
- Nearly-new sale
- Newspaper collection
- New Year's Eve dance/party
- New Year’s resolution (sponsored)
- Night-time hide and seek, using torches
O
- Old-time music hall
- One day fast
- One price stalls
- Onion peel competition
- Open day
- Opera evening
- Orienteering
- Original artwork sale
- Outgrown clothes exchange
P
- Painting competition
- Pancake day race/competition
- Panel games
- Pantomime
- 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
- Plant stall Photographic competitions
- Picnic
- Plant a tree
- Pluck a duck
- Polo suck marathon
- Pool competition
- Pram push
- Promotional party
- Pub games night
- Pub crawl
Q
- Quasar night
- Quizzes
- Question of Sport
R
- Races
- Radio campaign
- Raffles
- Raft race
- Rapping contest, show or sponsored event
- Record swap
- Relay race
- Riverboat trip
- Roaring twenties supper
- Roll a dice
- Rugby match
- Running match
S
- Safari supper
- Saints’ days parties/theme day
- Santa’s grotto
- Scavenger hunt
- School fair
- School prom
- Scoff-a-hotdog competition (eg ‘who can eat two in the fastest time possible’!)
- Second-hand market
- Seventies disco night
- Shakespeare marathon
- Shoe shine services
- Shop window display
- Signature board
- Silent auction
- Silly games afternoons: egg & spoon, silly races, wet sponge throwing, etc
- Silly specs evening
- Sixties evening
- Skittles
- Skateboard display
- Slave auction
- Slide evening
- Soap episodes show or theme day
- Sponsored events (eg bike ride, dog walk, knit, kite-flying, headshave, haircut, hula-hooping, no smoking, rapping, run, shoe-clean, silence, sing, sports match, swim, talk, three-legged walks, walk, watch TV/don’t watch TV, window clean, etc etc etc)
- Sports day
- Stalls at fairs etc (eg cakes, plants, books)
- Strawberries and cream tea party
- Story telling
- Sunflower competition
- Supermarket trolley dash
- Supper quiz
- Sweet in a jar
- Swap-shop
- Swear box
- Swimming gala
T
- Talent night
- Tango around town
- Tap dancing
- Tea dance/party
- Teddy bears’ picnic
- Ten pin bowling
- Tennis tournament
- Theme days/evenings (eg countries - French, Spanish; soap operas, past-eras etc
- Theatre collection
- Themed evenings
- Three-legged race
- Throwing wet sponges at a person in stocks, great at a summer fair!
- Tombola
- Top of the Pops show
- Toy appeal
- Trading places for the day
- Trampoline marathon
- Treasure hunt
- Tree planting
- Trivial pursuits
- Tuck shop – getting supplies donated?
- Tug-of-war
- Two Hundred Club – challenge yourself to raise £200, representing £1 for each year of our business being in existence.
U
- Underwater drafts
- Underwater eating
- Underwater hunt
- Non-Uniform days
- Unusual events
- University challenge
- Up the pole
V
- Valentines day party
- Valentines messages
- Variety show
- Video competitions
- Volleyball competition
W
- Wang a wellie
- Wacky races
- Waste paper collection
- Western party
- Wheelbarrow race
- Whist drive
- White Elephant stall Who’s that baby? (staff bring in photos of themselves as babies)
- Whodunnit evening/weekend
- Wine & cheese evenings
- Wine tasting
- Wishing well
- Word search
X
- X-country races
- Xmas draw
- X-Files day (Use your imagination – the ideas are out there!)
- Xmas fair/panto/party
- X Factor Competition
- Xylophone marathons
Y
- Yacht race, etc
- Yard of ale competitions
- You’ve been framed
Z
- Zany parties
- Zany competitions
- Zoo quiz
