Raising funds for schools in South Yorkshire is a challenge many PTA's take on every year. Generating cash for equipment and activities for school children has become a big part of all schools within South Yorkshire. The burning question is how do we generate this much needed income for our schools?
Hiring inflatable equipment is one sure fire way to generate cash for schools. All children and adults love inflatable equipment, such as bouncy castles, slides, assault courses and inflatable games. These fun inflatables are a real treat at school summer fairs and charity events and can generate lots of cash.
Cream Castles has provided inflatable equipment to many schools in Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster and Barnsley. Helping those schools with the task of fundraising for their schools. We can provide lots of knowledgable information to help assist with running your school inflatable funday or even provide staff to run the whole day for you.
First lets take a closer look at some of the inflatables I've mentioned already and see exactly how you can use them to help you fund raise for your school.
Bouncy Castles
Hiring a bouncy castle is a great way to help raise funds for your school. All children love bouncy castles and will be queuing up for a turn on the bouncy castle at any school funday! A bouncy castle at a school fundraiser is generally the main attraction of the event and is always a great crowd pleaser.
So lets do the math and see exactly what type of cash we can actually generate by hiring a bouncy castle for your school fundraiser. The castle above is a large inflatable and can hold up to 10 children at once under a metre in height. You could charge around £1.50 per 2 minutes turn on the bouncy castle.
So lets say your event was a couple of hours after school and do some working out based on those figures. Ten children on the bouncy castle every two minutes charging £1.50 each. Gives you £15 every two minutes or £450 per hour. Over a two hour period you could generate a whopping £900. Minus the hire cost of the bouncy castle at £99 leaves an astounding £801 total funds raised for your school.
Many PTA's will ring and ask Cream Castles for their smallest and cheapest bouncy castle, worried they won't recover the cost of the hire. This is very counter productive because a smaller bouncy castle holds much less children and will hinder the fundraising potential. As you can see from the figures above, big here is always better.
Inflatable Slide
Hiring an inflatable slide for a school fundraising event in South Yorkshire is definitely going to attract a large number of pupils to your event. The more pupils that attend the school fundraiser, the higher potential to generate a larger revenue.
A huge inflatable slide is a sure way to add lots of excitement and get the kids talking about the up and coming event. No child will resist the urge to swoosh down our huge inflatable slide. This attraction is a great way to get the event in the minds of the children and their parents.
The figures stack up similar to the bouncy castle above. However, this time you could charge the same £1.50 for around 5 slides. Children are generally done with five slides in well under two minutes. This in turn generates a larger revenue and with the excitement of a huge inflatable slide, who could resist paying for another turn.
Inflatable Assault Course
Now we're moving into the realm of high adrenaline inflatable games that are sure to bring the crowd to any school fundraising event in droves. The cost of hire is moving upwards and you are obviously thinking about how this would be paid for.
Let's take a closer look and see how hiring an assault course for your school fundraiser might stack up. The cost of this particular assault course is £299 and the length is a monstrous eighty feet. Again this will generate a huge buzz of excitement surrounding any event this assault course would be featured.
If we take the figure above of £801 generated with the bouncy castle. We can already see the hire cost is more than covered. However we want to smash that target and make hiring the obstacle course worthwhile. So how do we achieve this you might ask?
This obstacle course is suitable for children and adults and what better way to add lots of fun to a school fundraiser than to involve parents and teachers. You could have races involving parents vs teachers, teachers vs pupils or even teachers vs teachers the formats are simply endless.
Hiring an obstacle course is guaranteed to generate huge amounts of cash for schools. Simply involving parents and teachers in school fundraisers is guaranteed to get everyones hand in their pockets.
Conclusion
Fundraising for schools is an integral part of our community spirit and we only need to look at our children to give us the motivation needed to throw spectacular fundraising events. As we have seen above the potential to generate large amounts of cash for schools is evident.
Cream Castles has a wealth of knowledge in providing inflatable equipment to schools across South Yorkshire. We have a strict health & safety policy, providing risk assessments, method statements, public liability and inflatable test certificates for all our equipment.
You can be rest assured you are in capable and safe hands when it comes to inflatable hire for school fundraising events. We follow guidelines set by the HSE and go above and beyond when it comes to inflatable hire health and safety.
Cream Castles has helped schools all over Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster and Barnsley discover this cash generating potential. Creating lots of fun community spirit and bringing plenty of smiles and laughter to your pupils, teachers and parents.
Make this year your turn and see how we can help you.
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