Volunteer Fire Department Training Ideas
Fundraising is an important process for nonprofits as a volunteer firefighter, but it can be difficult to plan events and to carve out time to do so. Are you referring to issues surrounding the fight fire in the planning and procurement of equipment as simple as possible. For example, firefighters to be used as a space, meeting a comfortable and affordable. Be creative and have fun with the job seem less as fundraisers.
- Five-Alarm Chili Cook-off
You may need to put some fire in the mouth with a fundraiser. Send to encourage flyers and ads a month or two before the event to the people in your chili to the fire house to participate. Download the registration fee for each cooking chili, took part in the competition, which will provide some revenue for your fundraising. Then the day of the event for a small admission fee for spectators, which will cover the cost of voting for guests, where the candidate best cooked batch of chili sound. Entries must be distributed in paper cups bite chili taste tests just to the public. Tally up the votes at the end, and given a trophy or certificate, the winners or any other kind of reward.
Also presented a picnic at the event, and get charged a reasonable fee, or sales concessions more money. You can also host other types of cake-off, or cook on foot, according to local tastes.
- Auction "Date" & Service
Men in uniform are popular, and the date the firefighter bachelor auction from you. Advertise in a few weeks in advance and set the emergency stage or start-up and landed on the barracks, where every day will make its debut. BA should wear their uniforms from the event for added impact. Donations for gift certificates for restaurants, movie theaters, bowling and places, which became part of the auction including "date".
You have an auctioneer each date are eligible and then start the bidding at a reasonable price for the public to bid for promotion. If you think the idea of dating is at risk, offering employment services such as gardening or use hands for washing cars, making the muscles single '. The second option could even firefighters from both sexes as well as those who are married. Keep this auction in conjunction with a picnic or dinner and registration fee to enter.
- Calendar
Create a yearly calendar with your volunteers. Use each month for inspiration for your photo session, for example, in the image can turn around Christmas in December. Each photograph must be relevant to fight the fire, if it is itself an action shot or just a picture hanging fire firefighters.
Do you want to use to decide your verdict, if the schedule was ridiculous daring or more guilty. Once you have made your final selection for each month of the picture, calendars printed mass. Sell schedule resulting from your community to benefit, and use the revenue to go to your fundraising collection.
- Fire Truck & Open Rides
This type of fundraising will be very flexible in terms of how you choose to talk about this. For example, you can just give a fire engine traveling at a certain time, or you can make the day to encourage families to come and support your cause.
During the race for the passenger truck, you can offer a tour of the fire station, take photos with the community and sell concessions like hot dogs. Whatever you decide to set a price for admission.
