Arts and crafts

Get your creative juices flowing while raising money for children and young people facing cancer. Whether you are a knitter, an artist or a musician, there are loads of different things you could do!

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Popular activities

What can you make? And then sell to raise money? From cakes to candles, tote bags to T-shirts, get your design skills pumping. Club together with other creators and organise a craft or bake sale.

Get sponsored to do a creative challenge. Can you write a poem a day for a month? Or draw everyone in your team? Or produce a mural in your community?

Organise a craft day. Is there someone in your community who can inspire and teach creative skills? Run workshops about taking good selfies or making friendship bracelets.

Looking for more ideas? Go to our A-Z of fundraising.

Kick start your fundraising

• Create a JustGiving page so you have a place to raise money and share updates.
• Set a fundraising target. Pages with targets always raise more.
• Let people know how their donations will help children and young people with cancer and their families.

For general tips and stories, please download our fundraising guide.

Make sure your activity is legal and safe. Our guide includes a useful checklist if you are involving children in your activity.

Don’t forget to update and thank everyone afterwards. 20% of donations typically come in after an event.

Here’s how to pay in your money if you are collecting it in person.

Arts and crafts downloads and tips

Get in touch

We’d love to hear from you and are on hand to help with your fundraising questions.

• Chat to our fundraising team online using live chat (use the pink ‘chat to us’ button at the bottom right of the screen) Monday – Friday, 10am – 4pm
• Call us on 0300 330 0803, Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm
• Email us at fundraisingevents@younglivesvscancer.org.uk