Charity and sport are two great hooks to increase footfall in your outlet. There are lots of ideas on the website sportrelief.com for fundraising ideas. With TV coverage on the Friday evening on BBC One and events planned all over the country on Sunday, you can be as active as you like.
Why not get a team together and enter the Sports Relief Mile?There is a list on the website of all the locations that are hosting the event. You can offer a welcoming party on their return, with some tasty and thirst quenching rewards for your team's efforts and the people who have sponsored them. You can run the hula sweepstake that is included in the Sport Relief pack. Entry is £2 to guess who has kept the hula hoop going the longest.
Other fundraising ideas you can try will depend on thefacilities you have. Obviously sports clubs can run football challenges, tug of war, cricket etc. But, for those less sporty you can hold pool/snooker challenges, darts competitions or even table football contests, and charge people to enter.
Ask your staff and customers to dress up for the occasion. You can buy Sport Relief socks from the website, or just ask everyone to wear their favourite football shirts or sportswear. Why not hold a sports quiz? Set up a singing contest with a karaoke night and charge people per song or pay for people to stop murdering their favourite tunes.
You can set up your own virtual sports events with a games console and ask customers to pay to enter. Hold your own hula hoop challenge if you have space and see who can keep hula-ing the longest.
The good thing is that with all this activity you can be sure your customers will be ready for some refreshments to recover!
