The 2024 European Championship might be over but that doesn’t mean we can’t still enjoy a football fundraiser or two! Football might not be coming home with the England team, but you can certainly still make sure those all important donations come home to your fundraising pot.
We’ve put together a team of some of the best football themed fundraising ideas we could find so you’ll be sure to score goal after goal right on your fundraising target.
Football Themed Fundraisers
Host a 5-a-Side Football Tournament
This fundraiser can work for companies, schools, communities, churches – You name it! All you need are enough teams to make it interesting. Remember to charge a small fee per player so that each team is paying to enter the tournament.
Host an Online Football Gaming Tournament
Relive the magic (?) of the European Championship by hosting an online tournament. Charge a fee to play, as well as donations for certain criteria – Own goals, missing a penalty, fouling another player etc. Be creative!
Host a Football Themed Quiz
TV, radio and online has been full of football trivia over the last few weeks – Stats were being dropped all over the place! Test your supporters knowledge with a football quiz night to find the player of the match.
Euros Themed ‘Spot the Ball’ Competition
Choose a still image from one of the matches from the Euros and edit out the ball. For a small donation, people can pin their guess as to where on the pitch the ball was. The closest pin wins the prize!
‘Beat the Goalie’ Challenge
This one is great for events like school fetes, sports days or any community led event or fun day. Bonus points if you have an ex-footballer in your midst who is willing to spare their time to be your goalkeeper! Participants pay a small donation fee to see if they can score a penalty.
Sponsored Keepie-Uppies
How many Keepie-Uppies can be done on various occasions over the course of the week? Video evidence absolutely required! Host your competition online so that people can send in their videos – Raising more awareness for your worthy cause among their friends, family, colleagues and peers. How many can you do?
Football Themed Cake Sale
No fundraising ideas list is complete without a cake sale of some kind – This one is not different! If you are a local, community based charitable organisation like a school PTA, church or village parish, encourage your supporters to bake a football themed treat to enter a Bake-Off style competition. Charge a fee for entering, as well as selling off the bakes for a small donation.
Where Your Football Kit to Work/ School Day
This is such an easy one to do, whether you’re a school or business. For a small donation (maybe £1) students or employees can come to school or work wearing a football shirt for the day.
Fundraise Digitally with Donater
You won’t be going to extra time or penalties with these football themed fundraising ideas! Will you be using the recent Euros to boost your fundraising efforts? We’d love to see your ideas too! You can tag us on Instagram or Facebook.
Here at Donater we have a suite of fundraising tools specifically designed to make giving easier. Easier for the donor to make a donation, and easier for charitable organisations to receive that all-important fundraising.
Our suite of online fundraising tools include:
A dedicated online fundraising page, personalised to your charity or good cause. Supporters will immediately recognise your branding and thus, trust that they are in the right place to make a donation. Online fundraising pages are easy to share online via a handy link, and can be easily linked to your website with a ‘Donate Now’ button.
QR codes. We’ve all become more accustomed to QR codes over the last couple of years, so you’ll know how quick and easy it is to scan one with your smartphone. QR codes can be just as handy for taking donations. All your supporter has to do is scan the QR code with their smartphone, and it will take them to an online donation page. Once there, they can choose to donate with a tap via Google Pay or Apple Pay, or pay with their bank details. QR codes are a great addition to any physical marketing about your event, such as posters or newsletters as well as transforming a traditional donation box into a mobile way of taking digital donations.
NFC Tags. Our NFC tags take the above QR code concept a step further, and enable any supporter of yours with an NFC enabled smartphone to merely tap the tag or sticker. They will then be taken to an online donation page where they can make their donation quickly and simply. These work better with in-person events, but could easily be placed at the entrance to your charity or on collection boxes so visitors can donate to your cause if they wish.
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