Give your pupils plenty of time to get sponsored for their Sport Relief challenges – start handing out sponsorship forms early. Use the form in your Schools Fundraising Resource Pack or download one now.
Fun and Sporty Fundraising In Schools!
We’ve rounded up a super selection of some of the very best fundraising ideas that are perfect for schools like yours.
Fun For A Fee
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Simply organise a fun activity and then ask everyone to pay a donation to Sport Relief when they take part.
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Do The Sainsbury's Sport Relief Mile In School
Do an extra-fun Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile with each pupil paying a donation to hop it, skip it, run it, jump it or dress up to take part.
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Do A Sports Day... With A Twist
Ask for a donation from everyone to take part in a Sport Relief games day with a difference. From fancy-dress egg-and-spoon races, to throwing wellies full of jelly – as long as it’s fun, it’s fair game!
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Dress-Up Day
Have a looky-likey day where your pupils pay a fee to come to school dressed as their favourite sports star or Sport Relief celebrity – like Helen Skelton as an Antarctic explorer!
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Tug Of War
Make up teams to pit against each other in a massive tug of war competition. Everyone pays a donation to enter and the winning team gets a prize!
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Drench The Teacher
Put a member of staff in goal and hold a penalty shoot-out where the kids pay to see if they can get one (or more!) past the teacher. Give a prize to whoever scores the most goals!
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Penalty Shoot-Out
If you, or another teacher, is up for getting a bit soggy for Sport Relief, simply get some wet sponges and charge pupils per throw. A great way to hit your fundraising target… and you can always hope the pupils will miss theirs!
Sponsored Activities
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With sponsorship forms in-hand, your children can raise cash by taking on whatever sporty, silly or serious challenge they like!
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How Many Miles?
The perfect way for your kids to raise cash is by getting sponsored to do the Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile in your school. However you do it, it's great fun!
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Learn A Skill
From learning to juggle to riding a bike, children love a challenge and learning a new skill is the perfect thing they can get sponsored to do. Then, they can all show off their new-found skills on the day of Sport Relief itself!
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Jilt The Junk Food
Get your pupils to prove they can give up junk food for a week. Whether it’s crisps, sweets or fizzy drinks, it’s an easy (not to mention healthy!) thing for them to get sponsored to do.
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Swim-a-Thon
Get your class to ‘do a David Walliams’ with a sponsored swim in your school pool. Set a distance and ask your pupils to get sponsored to swim their stretch of it. You could also take part in the Big Splash Mile for Sport Relief in April.
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Twelve-Hour Sports Match
Whether it’s football, netball, hockey or cricket, challenge your pupils to play a non-stop mega-match for 12 hours. Each child does their own shift and gets sponsored for their part in the epic challenge.
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Hula-Hoop-A-Thon
Get your class to do a sponsored hula-hoop-a-thon, with each child doing a shift, and see how long you can keep it going!
Sell Stuff
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An excellent and enterprising way to raise money for Sport Relief is by selling tickets, services and special Sport Relief goodies.
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Sell Sport Relief Sweatbands
Order Sport Relief Sweatbands to sell in your school and kick-start your fundraising the easy way.
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Teachers v Pupils Sports Match
Hold a Teachers v Pupils football, netball or hockey match and sell tickets so everyone can watch the fun unfold!
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School Disco
Hold a school disco and sell tickets to raise cash with a bit of a tango. It’s another sure-fire fundraising classic, and you could even get one of the teachers or pupils to DJ!
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Run A Glee Club
Why not run a school Glee Club dance show and sell tickets to parents, family and friends?
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Healthy Bake Sale
Make healthy treats in class and ask the parents to get baking too. Then set up a stall and sell them throughout the Sport Relief Friday to keep everyone’s energy levels up!
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Break Sale
Sell your services to your colleagues by covering their duties during their break times… but all for a fee of course!
School Fundraise
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Selling treats, goodies and all sorts of stuff is an easy way to raise money for Sport Relief.
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Sport Relief Sweatbands
Buying Sport Relief Sweatbands to sell in your group is an easy way to kick-start your fundraising. And we’ve got an exclusive scheme to help you do just that!
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Healthy Bake Sale
Make and sell healthy treats and refreshments to fill active little tummies. It’ll keep their energy levels up while they jump around for Sport Relief!
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Sell A Face-Painting
Create tiny tigers or miniature Mr Men out of your little ones by selling your face-painting skills. Then they can get active for Sport Relief whilst looking the part.
Cooking Up
A Storm
In 2010, the staff and pupils at Stoke Newington School in London made healthy Sport Relief treats in class and sold them to their fellow students.
Schools Showcase
Did something spectacular for Sport Relief 2012? Tell us what you got up to and you could be featured in our schools showcase
Take our quick survey
Please take our survey to tell us what you thought of Sport Relief for schools and early years - you could win a Red Letter Day.
Premier League Reading Stars
We’ve teamed up with Premier League Reading Stars for Sport Relief 2012 to help turn football fans into reading fans and boost your pupils’ literacy.
Visit our friends at the National Literacy Trust for exciting challenges that support reading and literacy skills.