The online store offers great value children’s arts  crafts, educational games, fun toys, and kids party essentials. Perfect for seasonal inspiration, school holidays and year round family entertainment.  Registering your school, organisation or charity with Yellow Moon is definitely worthwhile including ChildLine which has raised over £300,000 since 2007 from customers’ cash-back purchases.

YELLOW MOON is the brainchild of its sister company Baker Ross Limited, a trusted catalogue brand and supplier of craft, educational and fundraising products to schools, groups and charities for more than three decades.

PTA Shop members can earn extra cashback with Yellow Moon.  By clicking on the Yellow Moon link via their online store they receive a cashback donation through the PTAShop.  If their school/club is also registered with Yellow Moon then the school also receives a cashback reward directly.  Brilliant!

On average, a school with 200 pupils, parents and teachers filling in 2 surveys a month can expect to earn around £3,200 per year at zero cost to the school or parent!

Just asking people to spare some time to complete surveys to help with consumer market research will earn money for the school and Amazon vouchers for the panellist.

How does it work?

Parents know how important it is to label their kids’ uniform items and will spend money every year on labels and name tags to stick, iron or sew into their school uniform.  Your school or organisation will benefit by joining the Labels4Kids fundraising scheme because they will pay a 10% commission on all orders.

They offer a varied selection of labels including:  Vinyl Labels, Stick on labels, iron on labels, Bag and luggage tags, Scout and Guide names tags etc.

There’s no effort required apart from the distribution of the brochures.  All orders are placed online so the school doesn’t have the responsibility of collecting orders and cash as well as all orders being delivered straight to the customer’s address.  Their products are designed and produced in the UK and their huge range of labels UV proof, non cracking, peeling and microwave & dishwasher safe.

For more information visit  www.labels4kids.com

Further details about fundraising can be found on their website: www.curlywillowfundraising.co.uk

The Christmas card project is APFS’s most popular project. Children create their own personalised designs which are then reproduced as high quality Christmas cards -  ideal for parents, grandparents, friends and relations to treasure forever.

The Christmas card special offer also ensures a great deal for your parents with the opportunity to purchase 36 cards (3 packs of 12) for just £12.00 and what’s more the school still receives the full fundraising amount on this offer of £2.20! With special offers like this in place, the top school last year raised over £1,000!!

To date, APFS has worked with over 4,500 schools, helping to raise £2million for school funds.

To request a free Christmas Card sample pack or to find out more information, please visit: www.apfs.org.uk/christmas-cards-for-schools.php

For your recipe book to be successful it needs to be a great cookbook, so be sure you are confident in the recipes before the book goes on sale.

To make the cookbook more exciting you could ask the children to write a letter to their favourite celebrity asking them to send them their favourite recipe. My school did this back in the 80s and I wrote to Nick Berry (Wicksy in Eastenders and Hartbeat).  He sent me his recipe for “Canadian Hotpot” with a signed photograph. I was absolutely estactic that he’d taken the time to write back to me.  As it was a long time ago I can’t really remember who my classmates wrote to.  All I remember is that the book was a success and helped raise money for the school.

Once your book is ready you then need to think of how to sell your book. You could have it formally printed into a book and hopefully someone has a contact with a local publisher or printing company to get you a good price. Or you could make it into an e-book or PDF and sell it on your website.  If your school or club doesn’t have a website, ask around, there’s bound to be someone technical that can help set up domain name and website for your cook book.*

Advertise your book on your website with a link where people can click to download it. It is extremely cheap to offer the book this way, and will save on printing costs.

To help promote the cookbook on your website you can have the option for people to tell their friends about the book by placing a “share this button” next to the link.  People can then tweet and share on facebook or email to their friends and family.  It really is a great idea and if planned well will  be a great fundraiser.

*If you’d like to set up a fundraising cookbook and need help with a website to sell your cookbook then the PTAShop can help you with this.  The PTA Shop will set this up for you at a very low cost.  For further information please email joanne@ptashop.co.uk

 TheCookBookInitiative.com

The Cook Book Initiative is a great fundraising website for schools and associations.  Very similiar to my idea above this website takes away the hard work of producing the cookbook yourself.   There’s a parent access area so individuals can log online from their home and input their receipe and photo.  There’s guides and FAQ section to assist you and you can try it out for FREE.  For more information visit www.thecookbookinitiative.com and to see how well its worked for other schools you can read the testimonials.

easy fundraising with the PTAShop.

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Get up to £17.50 cash back donation for your school/club for every person that signs up to BT Total Broadband. The BT Link can be found in the Broadband & Digital Section

BT offers fast, reliable, wireless broadband, BT Vision Digital TV and great value call plans. The packages offer great value for money and impressive speeds of up to 20Mb. ?All broadband packages have online security, parental controls, secure online storage and FREE 24/7 customer support as standard.

Its quite simple.  The PTAShop is a great fundraising idea and we need to get the message out there to the parents.  How many cashback donations have you  missed out on because someone has forgotten about your online fundraising shop.  Keep telling everyone to use the shop.  Make sure its mentioned in your newsletters and on your school website and remind parents at least once a month by email.

Put posters up around the school and send leaflets home in bookbags.  Posters are available to download or print from your homepage.

Register with the PTA Fundraising Service.

Online fundraising with the PTA Shop is an easy way to raise money for your organisation or group. There is a huge funding potential in this online program that will dramatically increase your fundraising totals while decreasing your efforts. Traditional school fundraising simply does not, and in fact can not raise ample amounts of money. With this online program that is free for any group or organisation to use, you have access to an easy fundraising tool that will stream line your efforts and increase your school fundraising profits. New members receive £15 added to their online account to get them started with their new and improved easy school fundraising program.

To take advantage of this online school fundraising program all an organisation needs to do is sign up online with our easy registration process and begin reaping the benefits of online account access, predetermined profit margins, and a variety of products that are ideal for any organisation. With the many options available to organisations why not take advantage of this easy fundraising opportunity? Give your school, club, or organisation the advantage that they need to raise the funds that will allow them to continue to do what they love.

Whether you have a need to raise large sums of money on a continuous basis or simply raise money periodically for travel, supplies, or events, our easy online fundraising program will allow you access to a perfectly tailored program to best fit the needs of your members. So are mediocre cake sales still in your future or do you plan to take the next step and begin increasing your fundraising profits now?  Register at the PTAShop today.

For instance, everybody has a mobile phone these days and the PTA Shop is linked to the most popular mobile phone companies like Vodafone and Carphone warehouse. The donations paid are very substantial so please encourage everyone to visit your shop when they next want a mobile phone.

How many children are there in your school or organisation? If 100 parents bought their next mobile phone via your online fundriaisng links then that could be a potential £1000* added to your fundraising totals. That is amazing and could contribute so much to your events and requirements.

*Based on 100 contracts from Carphone Warehouse.  Each mobile phone contract taken via your fundraising shop will earn a £10 donation.

Fiona Phillips, one part of the trio that runs the successful company Murdering the Text as been involved in writing, acting and directing on the amateur stage for the last twenty years has provided several PTA organisations with excellent Murder Mystery Scripts for fundraising entertainment events.So, if you are a closet thespian or armchair detective? Looking for a cost effective, fun way to raise funds for your cause, then why not hold a murder mystery evening?

Murdering The Text supplies murder mystery plays for you to perform. Each murder mystery pack includes a script set, director’s notes, character histories and of course the verdict. Get your audience involved in questioning the suspects and deducing who the guilty party is.

For further information and details of pricing please visit www.MurderingTheText.co.uk