Whether you're a teacher or a student in charge of organising this year's fundraising in your school, you'll find all the handy tips, guides and downloads to help you. Just click on the images next to the item you need.
Getting Started
All good fundraising starts with a great fundraising idea. Here are the essential tools you might need to help you come up with that corker idea.
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Schools Fundraising Packs Your school will have received a pack especially for your type of school: Pre-school, Primary or Teen, which includes higher education. You can order additional stickers and activity posters here. For anything else such as additional posters you can download and print them off below. |
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'How To' Guides We have special guides on fundraising in your school, including top ten ideas. Also take a look at our Get Baking guide for step by step help on how to run a tasty cake sale. |
Once you have your idea
Now that you have decided on your fundraising activity, you'll need to plan and promote it. Here you'll find planning guides, posters, recipes and more.
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Planning Your Activity A handy planning guide with step by step instructions, legal requirements and lots of tips and advice. |
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Promoting Your Activity Use the poster in your pack or print off more here. Stick them where there is high traffic to ensure lots of people see what you're doing and when. |
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Get Sponsored If you decide on a sponsored event, make sure you have plenty of forms for people to fill in. You can start with the form in your pack and print off more here. Don't forget to tell your sponsors to tick the Gift Aid box if they are UK taxpayers. |
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Collection box Somewhere for people to put their donations, sponsorship money or cash for your goodies. |
Check out our tasty recipes
Once you have read our how to get baking guide, pick your recipe and off you go! We have a bunch of sweet and easy suggestions below to get you started.
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Get Baking - Bear Biscuits Read our 'Get Baking' guide and try these tasty Bear Biscuits. |
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Get Baking - Lemon Drizzle Cake Sir Terry's favourite... |
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Get Baking - Shortcake Jam Tarts Yummy jammy tartiness, try not to eat them all at once! |
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Get Baking - Strawberry Scones Delicious with or without cream. |
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Get Baking - Chocolate Cake Who can resist a classic?! |
Dressing Up, Arts & Crafts
Colouring in, cutting out, dressing up and joining the dots. If you're getting sponsored for your creativity then don't forget to pick up a Sponsorship form
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Colour in Pudsey & Blush Get your crayons out and have fun colouring in. Sell your finished pictures to friends and family. |
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Pudsey Face Mask Print and cut out Pudsey's face and colour him in, get people to sponsor you to wear it all day! |
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Blush Face Mask If you don't fancy being Pudsey for a day, how about Blush, you give her a makeover however you like. |
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Dot to Dot Get your pupils to follow the dots and see what Pudsey surprises they find. |
Competitions & Games
Some fun games and tricky competitions that you can play with your class or classmates to help raise money. Don't forget to get your collection box to raise money while you play
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Spotty Bingo Get your class learning numbers with our spotty bingo. Why not buy a prize for the winner from our online shop? |
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Holding a quiz?
Print out these Pudseyfied questions and hold a class quiz. Get everyone to pay to enter and see which class can win a prize from our online shop! |
To let people know who you're helping
Let everyone know why you are raising money for BBC Children in Need, and about some of the children and young people whose lives are made better by your fundraising efforts.
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Pre-School Case Study - Leo Leo, aged 3, has a rare eye disease. Find out how your money has helped Leo and other children like him. Stick the posters up with your activity posters or at your event. |
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Primary School Case Study - Harrison Harrison, aged 8, had water on the brain. Find out how your money has helped Harrison and other children like him. Stick the posters up with your activity posters or at your event. |
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Teen Case Study - Alice Alice, aged 14, lost her mum to cancer. Find out how your money has helped Alice and her sister cope with their loss. Stick the posters up with your activity posters or at your event. |
When you've Completed your Fundraising Activity
When you have finished your fundraising, let everyone - including Pudsey - know what you got up to. And remember to get your money to us as soon as possible so it can be included in our Appeal Night total on 18 November 2011.
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Total Poster Make sure you thank everyone and show off the money you have raised. Replace your activity posters with these and keep your case study posters up too so everyone can see what a different your fundraising will make. |
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Class Chart Make sure your school knows which class is having the most fun and raising the most money by sticking up this class chart. |
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Fill in our online form we can see what you have been up to and maybe even contact you to feature your activity on local BBC TV or Radio. |
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Tell us what you did - Social Media If you're 13 or over you can like Pudsey Bear on Facebook to get the latest news and exclusive clips. You can follow us on twitter @BBCCiN and soon you can see lots of exclusive back stage clips on our YouTube channel. |
