Christmas gift wrapping service?

[Ruthierhyme]

:santahat:

If you are looking to raise additional funds over /or in the run up to christmas, how about offering a gift wrapping service?

For a small fee you could ask volunteers to wrap 1 or a set amount of gifts for a small reasonable fee.

Can you pre make your wrapping paper (with the children maybe?) or purchase bulk amounts to keep the price down?
Make or buy labels & rosettes and ask for donations of carrier bags to hold the newly wrapped gifts!

Set up a table at your local Christmas fayre offering the service for items purchased there and then and maybe issue contact details of volunteers willing to undertake gift wrapping services at a convenient time !

SEE HERE for a demo contact card you could give out.

Ask a local business if you could use their foyer as a venue for gift wrapping items purchased from their shop.
Set up a table and sort out a list of volunteers.

THINGS TO TAKE.....

Wrapping paper
Sticky tape
Ribbon
Rosettes
Gift labels
Carrier bag
Pen
Table
Table cloth

PAPERWORK TO TAKE

• Rota for volunteers
• Consent form or your initial letter that states the business is allowing you to use it's foyer on a particular day & time (this is for legal vending reasons!!)
• A sign that tells everyone who you are, what you are doing, how much things are and contact details (like your charity number ) so that customers (the general public) are aware you are legitimate!
• Contact details of volunteers - if you are going to be continuing to offer the service up until Christmas (make sure the volunteers have agreed to having their names/contact details put on a card and given out)

Have fun and raise lots of needy money

[Miss Muffet]

Before anyone says - I know it's March!

Great idea, just a painful word of warning .....3 Christmas's ago I took a day off work and spent every second of it wrapping presents!:present: I had to leave work the following day to go to casualty as I was in agony, seriously wondering how I had broken my arm! After a lot of prodding and poking (and nurses calling each other in to laugh at what I'd done the previous day!) I was told I had severe tendonitis :ouch: and given a splint to wear for 4 weeks, very fashionable!

So, make sure there are plenty of you to share the load. I'm pretty sure I'm the only idiot to go to hospital with gift-wrapping induced tendonitis!!!:blush:

[Chloe]

:rotfl: This Year got hubby to help though he was soooooo slow!Next year hopefully there will be lots of pressies to wrap for grandchild!!
Have already bought my first stocking present!buy them over the year and it is not so hard on the purse!! Sad I know!

[Miss Muffet]

Not sad at all, I buy the odd thing throughout the year, start serious planning in August, start shopping in September and if I'm not done and wrapped by December 1st I panic!:shocked:

[Ruthierhyme]

Bumping this up seeing as the 2006 stickytape & curling ribbon season is now with us