Fundraising ideas for Bike for Elephants
Some ideas to get started to raise money for your bike team. The fundraising events are not just to find sponsors, but you will generate awareness too. Enjoy organizing your event!
Create your team page on our website
Introduces your team, announce your fundraising events, track your fundraising efforts, thank donors and get online donations. Send links to your page to all your contacts. We can design a banner for your team to promote your bike team on other websites.
The sponsor book
Carry your sponsorship book with you at all times - you never know when and where you’ll find people wanting to sponsor your team.
Encourage your employer to match your fundraising.
For every baht you raise, your employer sponsors a baht too. And ask your colleagues to start sponsoring.
Sell merchandising
Get some Bike for Elephants merchandising (with BTEH logo) produced: T shirts, pencils, caps, key chains, bags, stickers. Ask restaurants, shops, friends, your social club to buy / sell the merchandising.
Charity dinner, party, concert, movie night, karaoke competition
Organize a charity party: make nice food or cocktails, sell tickets, promote the Bike for Elephants event and have a great evening. Maybe you can even ask a popular band or singer to perform for free and ask the venue to host the event for free. Advertise, sell tickets and raise a lot of money for the elephants!
Fundraiser at school
Talk about elephants with the children, organize an elephant art class with different materials, invite parents for the auction. Let the children make cookies, snacks, drinks etc to sell during the auction. Or organize a sponsor sport event at school: run around the school and let the children find sponsors for each round they will run.
Organize a booth, a lawn or garage sale
Get your team a booth at some public event: collect stuff to sell and have a donation box. Ask your community to donate items they are willing to let your team sell, for example books they are done reading. Pick a central location to hold your fundraising lawn sale. Publicize this event well in advance and many times.
Have a bake sale
Bake some cookies, pies or cakes and sell them on the street / at a party / at the office / at school.
Have an auction
Try to get many collectible items such as celebrity signed items. Most celebrities are willing to do this, if they support the cause (who won’t support Thai elephants?). Consider an online auction for some of the more lucrative items that were donated.
Have a raffle night
Ask companies in your neighborhood to donate something for the raffle: free massage, vegetarian dinner for two, books, CD’s, entrance of a tourist attraction, etc. Ask a suitable venue to help organizing the event. Sell tickets in advance for the raffle to get the donations. Give away the items donated from the local businesses and be sure to give them recognition as well. Good publicity and networking will make your raffle night fundraiser a success.
Online fundraising
Promote your team page through your own network. We can make a banner for your team, to put on other websites. People can donate on your team page through the online donation tool or directly to our bank account with a reference of your team. Email all your contacts to tell them what you are doing, why you are doing it and how they can support you!
Street fundraising
Make a donation box, take flyers and your sponsor book with you, walk around busy areas and just ask people to donate. Ask the singer of the band to announce the charity event or get on stage yourself.
Distribute leaflets and posters
We can send you posters and leaflets to help you with your fundraising.
Register your team now and get started!
