There are heaps of opportunitites for fundraising and sponsorship

What’s it going to cost?

We are busy putting in Mahi to get a fee set so you can budget for your Venture Adventure. 


There are a few cost variables depending on your choices for Phase One and Phase Two – check out “How does Venture actually work” for more information. 


In the meantime you can start fundraising. We recommend you aim for around a $2000 cost to cover event fees and spending money plus you will need to add travel on if you are coming from further afield- This is in NZD, International Contingents will set their own fee. 


Fees can be found on our Money, Money, Money page and our Expedition Pages. Keep an eye on our facebook page and other social media handles for announcements and check back in here.

FUNDRAISING IDEAS

Take a look at the ideas below and see what you can organise with your unit.

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Sausage Sizzle

You can't beat a good old sausage sizzle for a fundraiser, you'll easily be able to earn $150-400 a day. Just get in touch with the local Mitre10, Bunnings, The Warehouse or Supermarket. Most places will even supply the BBQ and some will even donate the sausages, if they don't, some butchers will do it for free too.

Quiz Night

Either ask your Group Leader if you can book the Scout Den for the night and organise it yourself, or ask your parents to get in touch with the pub or bar and they might be able to arrange the whole thing for you.

Movie Night

Get in contact with the cinemas or contact your Group Leader to book out the Scout Den for the night. Play the latest movie, sell some popcorn, fizzy drinks, lollies and fruit to earn some extra money while you have a captured audience.

Chocolates or Lollies

Interworld Fundraising (no relationships with Scouts New Zealand) has a large variety of options for things you can sell which have a profit of 20-40%

Bake Sale

Really like home baking? Buy some ingredients from the supermarket and make some fudge, lamingtons, muesli bars, and sell them for a few dollars each or packets. Sell them to your friends, family, or convince your parents or caregivers to take them into work with them to sell.

Odd Jobs

Put out an advert on your local community Facebook page, Neighbourly, newspaper or even on the community noticeboard at the supermarket. There's bound to be someone out there who needs help to tidy up the garage, mow the lawns, clean up the gardens or paint the house or fence.

Make a Recipe Book

Steal your mum or dad's favourite recipes, take a look online or ask your friends and put them in a book to sell to your friends or family.

Make a Calendar

Are you creative at all? Make a local Scout Calendar with some of the photos from your Unit, Group, Zone or Region. See if someone in your family will let you use the work colour printer, laminator, and binder to get them made and sell them to friends or family.

Monster Raffle

Visit some of the local shops around the community and see if they will contribute and items to a raffle. Then start selling tickets to your friends, family, teachers or colleagues of your family members.

Car Wash

Find somewhere on a busy street like the hardware store and ask if you can use their water to offer car washing to people who drive by. You'll easily get $5-10 a car!

Chop and Sell Firewood

Hit up the guy down the road who has a whole lot of surplus wood, ask around to see who's handing with the chainsaw and sell firewood by the trailer load.

Car boot or Garage Sale

Organise a car boot sale at the carpark or paddock down the road, run it every month and charge $10 per car to come along. Or have a clean out our your place and have a garage sale, I'm sure your parents have stuff lying around that they don't need anymore.

Sell Christmas trees

Know someone who has a pine forest? They always plant too many initially, see if you can chop some of them down and start selling them as a fundraiser just before Christmas.

Automatic Payments

If you need a bit more flexibility in payments or would like to set up regular automatic payments talk to the finance team finance@venture.scouts.nz

Scout Youth Foundation
Scholarships

The maximum individual grant will be 75% of the total costs of attendance   (in exceptional circumstances a higher grant may be considered).

 

 

Applications must be made by the youth member’s Group Leader to the Scout Youth Foundation (SYF).

 

 

Scholarships will focus on creating an opportunity for youth whose financial circumstances would usually preclude their attendance at a national event. SYF scholarships are not available to cover (after the fact) unexpected expenses that might arise at an event.

Apply Here

Venture has set up a fund to financially assist venturers who would not otherwise be in a position to attend.

 

Applications are made by a leader – any Venturer Leader, Group Leader or Zone Leader you are comfortable in approaching in a google form  Applications will open in April and the first funding round closes at the end of May 2025.

 

How it works – Venture has received donations which are matched up with financial support from your own unit, group or zone (local contribution) and this is used to pay your Venture fees. The amounts vary depending on how much the local contribution is, but could be up to $800 in total.

 

You need to register for Venture and have paid your deposit to be eligible to apply. 

Further detail including the process and terms and conditions are available here


Contact funding@venture.scouts.nz

 

Venture Fund

Venture Grants

Venture has a grant available to financially support youth members in extreme need to attend the event.  Up to 80% of the Venture fee may be paid on behalf of a successful applicant. NB: this does not include the expedition fee.

 

As with the Venture Fund, applications are made by a leader on behalf of the youth member.

 

Leaders please contact Wendy at funding@venture.scouts if you have any questions or access the application form here.

 

Applications will open in April.


For further detail and Terms & Conditions view here.