Fundraising Ideas

Gold Star Gifts and Stationery specialize in fundraising

Many community groups search high and low for new fundraising ideas, in order to keep their members and their supporters interested and dedicated. Fundraising is a necessity for most of these groups, due to limited or no government funding. These days it's basically essential for most schools, sporting clubs and numerous other social groups to fundraise in order to survive financially, and these groups are continually looking for new and preferably easy fundraising ideas that are profitable.

Since there are literally hundreds of fundraising companies available offering an enormous array of products and fundraising ideas, it can become confusing and time consuming to investigate the relative aspects of what these companies can offer to the fundraising group. It's imperative though, that the fundraising group does its homework to determine which fundraising company will best suit its needs. The best fundraiser ideas should be simple, easy to run and most importantly of all, profitable.

Most members of fundraising groups are volunteers and are already busy people, so most community groups find they can only run one or two fundraisers each year. It's important that these fundraising groups consider only profitable fundraising ideas that are proven and reliable, and don't require any money up front. The last thing that the group needs to run is a fundraiser that requires money up front, or is difficult and time consuming and could end up running at a loss and actually costing the fundraising group money in the end by running at a loss.

The planning of the fundraiser is paramount to its success, and should begin as soon as the fundraising group has decided on and contacted the chosen fundraising company. Deciding what time of year to run the fundraiser is also an important decision, because it's advisable that no other major event should be taking place at the same time, so that the total focus is on the fundraiser. Tasks should be allocated to each member of the group in order to keep everyone involved, and dates set for the completion of each task. 

Gold Star Gifts and Stationery are fundraising specialists. We supply our quality novelty stationery and gifts for fundraising purposes to schools, clubs, and groups Australia wide. Our range of products offers great gift ideas for birthdays and Christmas; craft kits to entertain and amuse the younger kids; puzzles, activities and novelty stationery for the younger members of the family; functional and novelty stationery items for all age groups; stationery items which can be used at school and at home; and our gift bags and greeting cards selection covers a range of occasions.

Fundraising with us is fun and very easy, and can generate enormous profits for you for minimal effort on your part. Our full range of products is used for each fundraiser. Our fundraisers are normally conducted over a three week period, and we supply everything you need to run a successful fundraiser including the product brochures, order forms, and final tally forms.

At the end of the set fundraising period, you collect the order forms and money, count up the orders using the tally sheets we supply, and contact us with your order. When we receive your final order, the items are packaged and despatched promptly within three working days.

We don't ask you for any initial deposit or payments up front, so there's no initial outlay by you.

The best part of fundraising with us is your profit!

CONTACT US for more information on our fundraisers and to request a free information pack.