I am leading a voluntary church group in Ontario Canada and need about $1000 dollars for yearly expenses in the group. I am thinking of raising fund from friends and group members. Do I need a licence? Are there any regulations and laws?

8 million pounds has been spent on building a new 90 bedroom old peoples home but there is no more money left to put furniture, lighting, pictures & carpets into the the home so we need to do alot of fund raising any ideas.

A student has started college and will be kicked out if her transcripts from high school are not received by the college within the next week. Her high school will not forward her transcripts without a fund-raising fee that her parents did not pay. Both her parents are out of work and can’t pay the fee.

I’m a student who was recently diagnosed with cancer and now I owe a large amount in medical bills. I decided that I would start to do some fund raising selling t-shirts and holding bake sales to offset some of the costs. I plan on advertising this locally through fliers and other low cost methods. If this is successful it’s something I would like to continue with after my medical bills and school. I would also in the future like to donate some of my proceeds to cancer research. So, do I need to start a small business or charity for legal and tax purposes now? Or can I wait? There is the possibility that this could just amount to me selling some t-shirts and cupcakes to my friends and nothing more, so I wouldn’t exactly want to start a small business just for that. What should I do?

I took this this words from an English book which is about NGO management and fund-raising. Searching around google, yahoo etc., I found out that this is a maxim words. But I could only guess that it must be related fund-raising efforts in NGO. So could you somebody help me know what this maxim mean?

Looking for ideas – not big or expensive – to raise funds to start up this group. We have no funds yet, no village hall and just a handful of volunteers, but we are keen to get this off the ground! Any ideas welcome, thanks.
p.s. Thanks for all your answers. We are in Scotland. We are trying to get the speed limit through our village reduced, so car related ideas (even good ones!) are probably not appropriate.
We need the money to cover the costs of starting up the association, printing leaflets, etc. Then onwards from there….

Every year the organization, that I am assisting, has to raise money since government and corporate funding has always been insufficient to cover the programs for assisting persons with disabilities find suitable employment.
Any suggestions appreciated. Thank you.

Well, next year our high school is organising a trip to Rome. Unfortunatly I can’t afford it due to my sister’s also going on a trip. So does anyone have any fund raising techniques for two high school students (15-year-olds) too raise money in an attempt to pay for the Rome trip?
Oh, we’re Scottish so there’s some legal issues for some traditional American fund raisers

I am raising money for Cancer research UK by walking four paths to the summit of Mt Snowdon In Wales within 24hrs. I would like to raise 5,000 pounds but have as yet failed to create much awareness. Any suggestions? I have a myspace account and a charity website but that is all.
P.S any donations would be very heartily welcomed, Thank you!

My school is raising money for the NSPCC and we need a simple way to raise some money in 4 weeks. Any Ideas? Thanks x