Bake some pancakes

Shrove Tuesday (or Pancake Day) is a great time to get baking. Here are some simple fundraising ideas to help you fundraise this month.

Host a dinner party

You could ask friends and family to contribute a small amount to attend your dinner party. Pancakes are a cheap and tasty food, and there are some great sweet and savoury recipes.

Pancake competition

Whether you organise a pancake competition at a local school, in your village or with some friends it's a fun way to raise funds. Ask everyone to pay £1 to participate and either see who can flip their pancake the highest, or the most number of flips! You could also ask people to place a wager on the best and worst results. It's a fun and quirky way to bring people together.

Sell them at work

Pancakes make a great alternative to a bake sale at work. There are lots of varieties of ready made pancakes on sale in the supermarkets today, so you don't have to be a brillant cook to take part! Colleagues will love having a pancake in the afternoon as a alternative to a treat from the vending machine. Have a couple of different flavours on offer such as chocolate sauce, lemon and sugar or golden syrup.

Our favourites

We love pancakes too - hear what some of our staff are planning to put on theirs:

'I'm a big fan of savoury pancakes, any sauce you'd put on pasta works well. My favourite is a creamy chicken and mushroom sauce - just your basic Béchamel sauce with chicken and mushrooms, plenty of black pepper and maybe some bacon lardons if you're feeling really indulgent!' Eva

'When it comes to crepes, I'm a bit of a traditionalist and like mine with lemon and sugar. However, for a bit of a treat I love making American style pancakes, my favourite's with blueberries' Sharon

'Although a slightly strange sounding combination, bacon with maple syrup is really tasty. Great for a Saturday morning fundraising breakfast!' Esther

More information

For more infomation on how to begin fundraising for the NSPCC visit our get started fundraising pages.