Raise Money for Your School, Club or Organisation

Fundraising can be challenging. Schools, sporting clubs and community organisations need to raise money, but finding an idea that people genuinely want to support is not always easy.

Sausage sizzles, raffles and chocolate drives can certainly raise funds, but once the fundraiser is over, there is often very little left to show for everyone's efforts.

What if your fundraiser could do something different?

At Talking Stones, we help schools, clubs and organisations raise money while creating something permanent for their community.

Raise Money and Leave a Lasting Legacy

Personalised engraved pavers offer supporters the opportunity to become a permanent part of your school, club or organisation.

Families, past students, members, local businesses and community supporters can purchase a personalised paver engraved with their name, family name, business name or a special message.

The pavers can then become part of a pathway, entrance, garden, memorial area, clubhouse, school grounds or another significant location.

Instead of simply making a donation, supporters receive something meaningful in return: a permanent connection to your organisation.

How Much Could You Raise?

One of the great advantages of an engraved paver fundraiser is that your organisation decides how much to charge supporters.

For example, if your organisation sold:

100 pavers at $50 each = $5,000 in sales

200 pavers at $100 each = $20,000 in sales

500 pavers at $150 each = $75,000 in sales

Your fundraising result will depend on the cost of your pavers and any other campaign expenses, but the potential can be significant, particularly when you involve your wider community.

A school, for example, isn't limited to current families. Past students, grandparents, former teachers and local businesses may all want the opportunity to have their name permanently represented.

Fundraise Before You Order

One of the biggest concerns with fundraising is having to spend money before you know whether the campaign will be successful.

Engraved paver fundraising can be structured differently.

You can promote your campaign, take orders and collect payments before placing your main paver order.

This helps reduce the financial risk to your organisation and means you aren't left with boxes of unwanted fundraising products.

Make It Easy for Your Volunteers

Successful fundraising shouldn't create an administrative nightmare for the people running it.

Talking Stones can help make the ordering process easier, including options that allow supporters to provide their engraving details when ordering.

That means less time spent trying to decipher handwritten forms, chasing engraving details or working through complicated spreadsheets.

Your committee can concentrate on promoting the fundraiser and reaching its goal.

Who Can Run an Engraved Paver Fundraiser?

Engraved fundraising pavers can work particularly well for:

• Schools and P&Cs
• Sporting clubs
• Community organisations
• Charities
• Churches and religious organisations
• Kindergartens and childcare centres
• Scout and community groups
• Clubs and associations
• Building and renovation projects
• Memorial and commemorative projects

They can also be used for major anniversaries, new facilities and community projects where donor and sponsor recognition is important.

Don't Forget Your Local Businesses

Local businesses can become some of the strongest supporters of community fundraising.

Consider offering businesses the opportunity to purchase a paver at a higher sponsorship level.

A family might purchase a personalised paver for $100 or $150, while a local business may be willing to contribute considerably more in return for permanent recognition of its support.

This can turn a simple paver fundraiser into a broader community sponsorship campaign.

Give People a Reason to Be Part of It

The most successful campaigns aren't simply about selling pavers.

They're about belonging.

"Put your family's name in our school forever."

"Become part of our club's history."

"Help build our new facility."

"Leave your mark for future generations."

That emotional connection is what makes this type of fundraising different.

Years after the money has been spent on new equipment, facilities or community projects, the names of the people who helped make it possible can still be there.

More Than a Fundraiser

A fundraising campaign should help you achieve a financial goal.

But it can also tell the story of the people who made that achievement possible.

Talking Stones has been creating personalised engraved products in Australia for more than 20 years and has worked with schools, clubs, businesses and community organisations across the country.

If your school, club or organisation needs to raise money, we'd love to help you explore what's possible.

Raise funds. Build community. Leave a legacy.