Idea Bank... fundraising ideas
KHNZ needs your help to do more. We rely on donations and support from businesses and the community. But more than that, each fundraiser is an opportunity to raise awarenss of kidney health. Each has the potential to spark someone to get a kidney health check. That check maybe lifesaving for that person. Each fundraiser is an opportunity to save a life!
Some ideas on fundraising or raising awareness
Workplace Ideas:
- Wear Red for Kidney Day - Get your workmates together and wear red at work. Get everyone to make a donation. Add in some fun activities like a sausage sizzle, raffle or kidney challenge.
- Water week challenge - challenge the office to switch their usual drinks to water for a week. Get participants to donate they money they would have spent on their coffee, energy drink, or fizzy drink to Kidney Health New Zealand. Have a fine jar to collect donations. Fines could include - cheating, excessive caffeine withdrawal - make up your own rules.
- Kind to your Kidneys Challenge - Use March to get back to fitness. Get participants to sign up for the Fitness month. Get them to reduce salt and sugar intake, increase exercise, and drink more water,
- Coin War - Get a large clear jar or bottle and put a slot into it. Put departments against each other to donate. However, this one has a twist. For each 10c or 20c coin you subtract from the total. That means teams can sabotage each other by placing 10c & 20c coins in each others jars. Have a prize for the winning team.
School fundraising Ideas
- Wear Red for your Kidneys Multi Day - Ask for a donation for your mufti-day and support a kidney patient.
- Water week for kidney health. Ban fizzy drinks, juice and other sugary drinks for a week at your school and get students to drink water. Get students to donate the money they may have spend on those drinks to Kidney Health New Zealand.
- Run a healthy wrap stall or hamburger stall. This is an alternate to the traditional sausage sizzle. Prepare or purchase a premade salad or coleslaw. Get some wrapts. Add in salsa, sauce, hummus. Include some cooked chicken if you can do so safely.
Individual fundraising Ideas
- Wear Red for your Kidneys Multi Day - Ask for a donation for your mufti-day and support a kidney patient.
- Create a personal challenge and ask friends, family and work colleagues to support you in your challenge.
- Organise a market, charity dinner or community raffle.
- Create an individual or household change bin. Get a piggy bank, jar or tin. Whenever you have spare change throw it in. Once it gets full take it to the bank and deposit it for Kidney Health New Zealand.
