Gift of Happiness Foundation
Fun fundraising tips for anyone wishing to enjoy the experience of helping needy children in Thailand.
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These ideas can easily be used at schools or adapted for the workplace, social clubs, loyal societies, sports clubs, golf tournaments and any other group activities.
10 Fundraising ideas at school.
  1. No Uniform for Uniform Day. Children are allowed to spend one day per month wearing regular clothes in return for a donation of the cost of one uniform for our needy children. Money raised in this way can be given at end of term and we can have the new uniforms ready to hand out by start of the next term.
  2. Change Coins for Uniforms. Children can easily design a funny collection box that they make themselves and place in their classroom room. Then there can be a competition between classes to see who collects the mos amount by the end of term.  At the end of term all the coins are counted and placed into new pairs of socks holding enough to buy one uniform per sock.  That way our needy children get a new uniform and a few pairs of socks into the bargain!
  3. Run for a Uniform. Plan a 'run for a uniform' event where the children can ask all family members to sponsor them to run (or walk) around the school play/sports ground enough times to raise money for (5 to 10 or more) uniforms.
  4. 50/50 Raffle for Uniforms & Your School. This is a great idea for a special day like 'Fun/sports day or new teacher etc' and it provides your school with something the children want for their class as well as uniforms for our needy children! - You need some double row raffle tickets with matching numbers on each side. Think of an effective way to sell the tickets to parents and children at whatever price makes sense to you on the big day. (The goal is to give people an incentive to buy more). When a person buys a set of tickets, rip the row in half, keeping the duplicate half for the drawing bucket. When finished selling tickets, add up the total money then divide into 50/50 for uniforms and whatever the children decided to buy for their class.
  5. It’s a Bust. Then every child in a whole class at your school has to buy 8 balloons at ฿-50-00 each (which equals the price of one uniform). Teachers then insert numbers in each balloon, secretly making sure that one number corresponds to a raffle ticket given to each child. The child then has to pop all 8 balloons to reveal a matching number and receive their prize (Everyone's a winner!) - "Go-Happiness provides hand made prizes made by children who receive uniforms". 
  6. 4 Minute Watermelon. A fun and sloppy activity appealing to many ages (and healthy, too). Watermelons provide the perfect texture and messiness that makes an eating contest fast and fun! Family members can sponsor the cost of one or more uniforms for each child to eat their way through a whole watermelon in less than 4 minutes (฿-100-00 per minute)  
  7. Skip a Meal and save for uniforms. A whole class or year group commits to giving up a meal together and give the money saved to Go-Happiness for us to save for uniforms.
  8. Give-Up the phone.  Schoolchildren can ask family members to sponsor them to give up using their mobile devices/tablets or any other a regular electronic communication activity for 24 hours and donate the money they raise to buy uniforms. The children can warn all their contacts and even ask for more sponsors in advance of the big turn-off day. Devices can be left and kept in the school safe at end of school day and given back to the children before they go home next day.  
  9. Sports saving for uniforms . "Must be done wearing a uniform" - Schoolchildren can ask family members to sponsor them to take part in any of the usual Egg & Spoon, Sprinting, Long distance, Swimming or other sporting events while they wear a full school uniform.
  10. X Marks the Spot. Children pay for 8 golf, tennis or ping pong balls and send them all down a hill with the “tosser” blindfolded. The 3 that get closest to the center of a taped “X” below win a Certificate of Appreciation and their picture published on the Go-Happiness website.
10 Fundraising ideas at workplaces or club and society gatherings.
  1. Donate an hour’s salary for uniforms. Enough said!
  2. Every coin counts for uniforms. Collect coins or small change bank notes at your workplace and ask customers, suppliers or friends and family to do the same. "Go-Happiness can provide collection boxes anywhere in Bangkok".
  3. Home alone for uniforms. Bid among your department for the prize of an extra day off work. You have a nice day off and our needy children get loads of new uniforms!
  4. Bail Me Out. Handcuff two willing staff members or the boss and let them lose when they raise “bail”.
  5. 50/50 Raffle for Uniforms. Sell raffle tickets for the price of one uniform and offer half of the proceeds as a cash prizes for the top three winners.
  6. Fancy Uniform Day. or 'Workplace Fancy Dress Parties'. Use your imagination here?
  7. Choose the Torture. Have donors pay a small amount per vote to decide which form of “torture” to inflict on your organization’s leader (i.e. dye hair, dress as a clown, trade a job for a day).
  8. Sticky Fly Hanging Around. During your morning break, sell pieces of duct tape for donors to stick a member of staff or the boss to a wall suspended on a wall above the floor for an hour or more during that afternoon.
  9. Skip a Meal and save for uniforms. Whole work teams commit to giving up a meal together and give the money saved to Go-Happiness for us to save for uniforms.
  10. Egg 'Em' On. Negotiating with work colleagues for how much they will pay to see you do a crazy stunt with a raw egg (i.e. juggle, crack it on your head, throw it up and catch it).
5 Fundraising ideas that even one person can do.
  1. Birthday, Anniversary or Christmas Pledge. Simply Ask for donations of the amount for one or more uniforms instead of receiving unwanted/needed presents. For a dozen or more uniforms, we will send you a Certificate of Appreciation instead of a regular birthday/anniversary card. You can show this to the people who donated and make them feel good about giving as well.
  2. Pennies for Uniforms. Save small coins and loose change or small denominational bank notes that you have lying around. Then count them up once-a-month and round-off the amount when you think there's enough to buy a dozen or more uniforms. Or you can simply bank the coins and send the amount on-line stating that you want the money to be spent only on uniforms. INFO HERE
  3. Give-Up for a Month. You can commit to giving up a regular activity like eating chocolate, smoking, drinking alcohol, eating junk food or anything else that will be good for you to stop for a while? The money you save can buy a few or even dozens of uniforms and you will feel great having reached your target to stop for a month.
  4. Skip a Snack for a Month. You can commit to giving up those late night snacks and the small amounts of money saved can buy quite a few uniforms for needy children who don't know what a late night snack is? 
  5. Exchange old goods for uniforms. Send all your used or unwanted goods to our charity shop or sell the goods at the next garage/boot sale and the money raised will buy lots of uniforms. Here is a comprehensive list of all the things we can accept or you can sell on our behalf.
When you have raised enough to buy a few dozen or even reached the dizzy heights of raising enough to buy our minimum wholesale order of 500 complete uniforms.
You can send the amount by direct bank transfer or online via PayPal.

In Bangkok, you can arrange to visit our charity shop or we may come to your school, company or club meeting rooms so you can hand-over bags of coins or give us a cheque.

Find out exactly where the uniforms will be given or ask any questions; [email protected]
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WE GIVE HUNDREDS OF UNIFORMS TO KIDS WHO REALLY DO APPRECIATE IT!
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