Using tea towels as a fundraiser has a long history, Popular in the UK, US, and Australia. tea towel fundraisers are easy to organize, Highly effective and produce wonderful commemorative keepsakes that your supporters will be Happy to buy!
What Is A Tea Towel Fundraiser?
A tea towel fundraiser is where you have members of your ‘group’ (pre-school, grade school, church, sport’s team, etc) collectively design, then sell, tea towels.
There Are 2 Approaches To Doing This…
The less common is to purchase blank tea towels, then have your group members paint them using fabric paints or fabric dye sticks.
But the second option – easier, and far more lucrative! – is to have your tea towel (or dish towel) designed by members of your group, then printed in bulk by a company(BLANC Tea Towel) that specializes in doing so.
Distribute a piece of white paper and a black marker to every member of your group.
Ask each member to provide some sort of design for the completed tea towel.
Collect all the members’ designs, including a title or logo, then send the whole lot to the tea towel printing company(Blanc tea towel)! You will usually be asked to specify things like colors and the type of border you’d like for the finished product.
The finished tea towels are then sent to you, ready to sell through your organization or at fundraising events.
Ideas for Decorating Your Tea Towels
Pre-school students could each supply a handprint and teachers could add their names below.
Grade school students could supply simple “self-portraits”.
High school students, sports team members, etc could provide their signatures, perhaps accompanied by their personal “logos” or favorite quotes.
Church members could provide their favorite verses in Scripture.
Any organization could provide their group’s favorite recipes – very appropriate for use on a tea towel!
Unlike some fundraising items, which supporters tend to buy purely to “help a good cause” without actually WANTING the item they’re purchasing, people really LOVE to buy these commemorative tea towels.
Particularly effective for pre-schools and schools in general, these tea towels make amazing gifts and parents tend to order several at a time. After all, what grandparent/aunt/uncle/family friend etc could fail to love a tea towel featuring a handprint or hand-drawn self-portrait of a little person they love?
What’s more, they’re lightweight and small in size, so they’re easy to post to recipients far away – another factor that can increase sales significantly.
