Fundraising overall:

As a theatre company we knew it would be crucial to create our own fundraising day with our own ideas of some great fundraisers. Our first idea was a raffle to win alcohol, as this is a key theme throughout our performance. For a smaller competition we had a jar full of sweets and for people to win the jar, sweets and two tickets to the cinema all they had to do was guess the correct amount of sweets in the jar. We also set up a kickstarter, setting the target as £200.

Sara and Maria at our library fundraising spot.

Raffle and Sweets competition:

We held both our fundraising events across two days, Monday the 25th of April and Tuesday the 26th. On the Tuesday we held a fundraiser at two points on campus: the library entrance and the entrance to Tower Bar. At the library spot we held both the sweets competition and the raffle but at the Tower Bar spot we only held the raffle. This was because we felt the raffle would work more effectively at this site due to the prizes being alcohol therefore connected with the site a little better.

Catherine, Amber and Joe at our Tower Bar fundraising spot.

Both me and Chloe also walked around the campus with the jar of sweets, taking it to the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, to the offices in the main building on campus (because offices love sweets) and also to different offices through campus. We sent Sara and Alex around with the raffle book too, and also sent Catherine, Joe and Sarah around tower bar with the sweets jar and raffle book too.

Our posters in action!

We also used the fundraiser as our first reveal of our posters and flyers, handing them out on the day and pinning them around both sites accordingly.

End result:

Overall, our fundraising events were a success. We were able to engage with our potential audience, hand out important information and also gain an extra £231.75 for our theatre company.

Sarah x