depends on where you are located, see if you can do a sausage sizzle. A bank near my old work did one and raised heaps for charity just prior to christmas.

The bank is in Osborne park and they just printed out a stack of flyers and handed them out to local businesses. Trade/factory/office type people eat heaps.

Look at it this way.

$5000 = 5000 items at $1
= 2500 items at $2
= 1000 items at $5

If you are selling something (and if you are going with the suasage sizzle idea you may even be able to hit up some suppliers for free/discounted products) you need to look at volume. Will you be able to sell X amount of units to make the money you require?

Another option is to have an auction. Hit up some celebs or other local businesses for items and auction them off. This doesn't take too much effort (in terms of cooking etc), just planning. Or run the auction in conjunction with a quiz night and there you have it. $10 per person and then make the remainder of the money from the auction.

Without knowing what your company does, it is quite difficult to suggest any further ideas.
Toni

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