Holding a fundraiser for fws isn't as hard as you're thinking. We know - because we hold them for ourselves, all the time!

Here are a few of the easiest, fuss-free, results-oriented options available:

join the fws city2surf 2011 team

1. Join the team of dedicated fws volunteers in the world’s largest run on August 14, 2011.
2. Or Send a message cheering them on and make make a donation. That'll help on the hills!
3. Tell all your friends and family!

You can find all the details here on the city2surf page >>

sell stuff on fws's ebay site

1. Contact fws ebay consultant and outline what it is you wish to sell.
2. Take photos of the items you're selling, email them to fws ebay consultant with detailed descriptions.
3. Be prepared to work with fws ebay consultant to get up terrific descriptions and pix detailing your items.
4. Be prepared to meet postage timelines without input from fws (postage costs will be covered by the purchaser).
5. Purchasers will pay for items by directly depositing the money into the fws bank account. fws will thank you in the next newsletter.

sell Cadbury's chocolates

1. This idea is perfect for anyone working in an office. Ring your local experienced Cadbury Fundraiser consultant on 1800 809 444.
2. No up front payment is required and delivery of chocolate is free of charge. Just download the order form from www.fundraising.com.au.
3. Email fws to ask for our fundraising pack (filled with lots of tips, advice and fundraising templates you'll find useful!)
4. Email your colleagues letting them know of your general topsness and the fact you are doing this chocolate drive for fws.
5. Keep track of sellers and the money returned using the Cadbury's Tally Sheet (download from www.fundraising.com.au).
6. Collect money from your chocolate-munching colleagues and pay for your fundraising products within 28 days of receiving your order.
7. Deposit the profit of your funds into the fws bank account and email fws accounts to let us know what you raised so we can thank you in our next newsletter!

sell Entertainment Books

1. This idea also is perfect for anyone working in an office. Contact fws public fundraising consultant and ask for your Entertainment Books. (Those books of discount vouchers to fab events and places).
2. Take Entertainment Books to your office and sell them to your colleagues.
3. Bank the funds raised into the fws bank account. fws keeps 20% and the other 80% goes back to Entertainment Books - www.entertainmentbooks.com.au.
4. Deposit the profit of your funds into the fws bank account and email fws accounts to let us know what you raised so we can thank you in our next newsletter!

hold a movie night

1. Ring your local movie theatre, tell them you're fundraising for fws and ask what discounted ticket rates they have available for fundraiser events.
2. Email fws to ask for our fundraising pack (filled with lots of tips, advice and fundraising templates you'll find useful!)
3. Select a suitable movie (perhaps not X-rated), set a date, book it with the theatre, have an invite designed, send it to all your friends, ask fws to advertise your invite in our gimme shelter e-newsletter and on our news & events webpage.
4. Organise your nan to make some arrival cakes for your movie-going guests. Organise your mates to donate some arrival drinks. Or organise some snacks with the theatre direct - some theatres will offer you nibblies and drinks at a special rate.
5. Print out the fws info pamphlets in the fundraising pack to have them available for guests on the night.
6. Organise a raffle with three prizes (guests love this and it's a great boost to fundraising).
7. Have someone quickly introduce fws, draw the raffle, start the movie and relax!
8. Deposit the funds raised into the fws bank account and email fws accounts to let us know what you raised so we can thank you in our next newsletter!

share a pizza for fws at your workplace

1. Find out which day of the week your local pizza joint has $5 pizzas (i.e. cheap Tuesday).
2. On the day, walk around your workplace before lunch with a pen and scrap paper, taking pre-orders from your colleagues for 'a piece of pizza for fws!' They get their lunch while contributing to fws at the same time.
3. Charge $2 per slice, which makes $16 per pizza - which means you've raised $11 for fws. It's that simple. Collect the funds from your hungry workmates.
4. Call the local pizza joint to order as many pizzas as you need, depending on the size of your workplace (or the size of your colleagues' appetites).
5. Pick up the pizzas or even have them delivered.
6. Share the pizzas in the staff lunch room, and everyone's smiling.
7. Deposit the funds raised into the fws bank account and email fws accounts to let us know what you raised so we can thank you and your workplace in our next newsletter!
8. You could even make it a monthly event...

for help with any of these ideas

Or for even more fundraising ideas, contact fws Public Fundraising Officer, Laura at Laura.Kearley@foodwatershelter.org.au.