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In exchange for a donation, encourage your colleagues to ditch the ‘formal work wear’ for a day. Add an animal-theme and see how creative your colleagues can be.

This is an easy and profitable idea that works well when combined with other fundraising ideas.

You could also incorporate a small donation into ‘dress-down Friday’ each week. You’ll be surprised how quickly it adds up.

Raise even more by asking colleagues to set up their own online fundraising page to share with friends and family.

Create an ongoing fundraiser by introducing a swear box to your office. Different profanities can incur different levels of fines. The total will grow quicker than you think – unless you work in an angelic office.

This idea can be expanded to include other forms of punishment that are more applicable to your office.

Don’t carry cash? Set up an online fundraising page, you can leave it open for as long as you like.

The perfect combination of detoxing and fundraising. Ask friends, family and colleagues to sponsor you to give something up. It could be:

• Something you consume a lot of – alcohol / chocolate / coffee etc.
• Something you want to do less of – talking / Facebook / mobile phone etc.
• Something you want to give up completely – smoking / meat / fast food etc.

Set up an online fundraising page, tell people what you’re doing and why you’re doing it and ask for their support.

Running an office sweepstake is a fun and easy way of raising money for the animals while encouraging friendly competition amongst colleagues.

It’s simple, all participants make a donation to enter, half of the money goes to the winner and the other half comes directly to the animals.

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A charity golf day is a great way of raising a large amount of money for New Zealand’s animals whilst also providing a team-building exercise for colleagues and a networking event for clients and customers.

There are so many ways you can raise money through a golf day. Get started now!

Create a bit of friendly competition amongst your colleagues that will be talked about for weeks afterwards and raise money for animals in need at the same time.

Charge an entry fee and raise additional money by including a raffle or charity auction – don’t forget that the better the prizes, the more money will be raised.

Too busy to be quiz master? Share the load by asking different departments or teams to host a round each. Get started now!

Similar to the ‘dress-down day’, participants make a donation for the privilege of bringing their beloved pets to work with them for the day.

If you’re running this event please make sure you give full consideration to the welfare of all animals involved. Do not bring animals into a stressful environment or a situation where they may be at risk or in danger of escaping.

Our sponsor Purina has great tips on bringing pets to work on their Pets at Work website.

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Set up a stall in your office and ask for a donation for your delicious baked treats. Any money you raise comes straight to the animals here at SPCA.

Find out more about Cupcake Day or get started now!

Why not expand the idea by nominating a different person or team as your ‘weekly baker’. The money you raise will multiply very quickly, especially if you’re in a large office.

The key to a really successful auction is to get prizes that people genuinely want to bid for.

Ask the boss to donate an extra day of annual leave, find someone who will do the tea & coffee runs for a month, give lifts to work or clean their colleagues’ desks. Items that money can’t buy will be a lot more popular. How desperately do you want that extra day of leave?

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Placing an SPCA collection box in your office, shop, pub, club or business to collect change is a fantastic way to fundraise. It’s really easy and you’ll be surprised how quickly the money adds up.

To arrange a collection box for your workplace or to find out more about the collection box program, please contact our fundraising team on events@spca.nz.