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Australian Fundraising runs packaged colour and slime fun runs for schools, with powder, prizes and a student profile site included. Raised gives you sponsorship pages for a fun run or colour run you run yourself. Here is how the money works out.
Neither option costs anything up front. The difference is how much of each donation reaches the school.
A packaged colour run arrives in a box. Running your own takes a little more organising and leaves far more money at school.
Each student gets their own page, link and QR code to share with family and friends.
Teams mode puts every class on a live leaderboard, which does the job of a prize chart for free.
A colour run template for your school's page, with your goal, story and colours.
Donations are paid out to your Stripe account within a few business days, not after the event.
Not included. Schools buy powder from a party or events supplier and choose their own class rewards.
Colour powder or slime, UV400 sunglasses and wristbands or headbands for each student, plus coordinator kits.
Students get their first prize once they raise $10 and can pick up to five prizes, plus extra prize credit online. Families can choose a cause instead.
Online profiles on the company's own site. Schools report that cash must be converted to online donations.
An account manager to help the school run the event.
The cost of the programme comes out of the money raised, so every extra dollar raised also costs the school 40 cents plus GST.
If your P&C is happy to buy its own powder and run the day with parent helpers, running it on Raised keeps the money at school.
On a $20,000 colour run, a 60% share leaves the school $12,000. On Raised the school keeps over $18,000 even when every fee comes out of the donations, and more when donors choose to cover fees.
Teams mode puts every class on a leaderboard. A pizza lunch for the top class costs a fraction of a prize per student.
Watch every class and student total update as sponsorship comes in, and share the leaderboard in the newsletter.
No minimum student numbers. Use the same setup for a fun run, walk-a-thon, read-a-thon or maths-a-thon.
Australian Fundraising's fun run page says the school keeps 60% of the money raised, assuming it can reclaim the GST, and the company takes 40% + GST to cover materials, account management, freight and advertising. There are no upfront costs and a minimum of 50 students.
The School Fun Run and funrun.com.au websites now redirect to Australian Fundraising's student profile site, so schools that used School Fun Run in the past will find the same programme there.
A packaged programme suits a school with no volunteers to spare. If you have a few parents for the colour stations, running your own colour run on Raised means the school keeps the money that would have paid for the programme.
Sources: Australian Fundraising fun run, Australian Fundraising FAQs, Werribee Primary School parent letter
Set up a colour run page with a sponsorship page for every student in a few minutes. Free to start.