Pink Fridays

• Charge an entry fee or sell tickets to your Pink Friday.
• Ask local businesses to donate pink raffle prizes or ask all your friends to bring one gift along (you can download our raffle guidelines to help you with your event).
• A craft or cake stall can be held almost anywhere – indoors or out.
• Sell Breast Cancer Care pin badges to your friends and colleagues at your Pink Friday.
• Why not sponsor someone to wear pink fancy dress at work for the day?
• Our Pin the bra game is a fun and easy way to raise money. Simply print it out and get everyone donating and playing along!
• Indulge yourself and your friends in the name of charity by having the girls over for a pamper evening. Create a spa in your living room and charge everyone £3.
• Raise money with a full house. Invite your mates over for a game of bingo with the proceeds going to Breast Cancer Care and a prize for the winners.
• Get your boss a pink apron and put them on tea-making duty for the day. Ask everyone at work to pay £2 to have a cup of tea and biscuits served by the boss.
• Take photos of your colleagues in pink disguises and then get everyone to pay £2 to guess who they are and win a prize.  
• Get your friends or workmates to bring their old CDs, DVDs or games to your Pink Friday event. Have fun reminiscing over the old classics and at the end of the night donate them to musicMagpie, with all your proceeds going to Breast Cancer Care.

‘I have been living with breast cancer for two years now and have received fantastic support from Breast Cancer Care. When I heard about Pink Fridays I thought it would be a great opportunity to give something back.’
Nikki, Bournemouth

Are you the hostess with the mostess? 

Why not cook a three-course dinner and invite your friends to come dine with you – in return for a donation to Breast Cancer Care of course. You could even theme your menu around the colour pink – prawns, salmon, trifle… the possibilities are endless.

Milk, no sugar, please

Get your boss a pink apron and put them on tea-making duty for the day. Ask everyone at work to pay £2 to have a cup of tea and biscuits made by the boss. 

Fill a jar with sweets 

Get people to donate £2 to guess the amount of sweets in the jar. The person with the closest guess keeps the sweets.

Cake sale

Get baking for friends, family, classmates or colleagues. We think the fancier your cake, the more you can charge for it!

'By opening our house up for a Pink Party in the evening, we were able to invite family and friends. We charged a £3 entrance fee (£1 for kids) for a cup of tea and a bun. Guests could then spend more money on the bring and buy cake stall, raffle, tombola and face-painting.' 
Nicola, South Yorkshire

Bake-off

Do you make magnificent muffins or know someone who cooks terrific tarts? Hold a pink bake-off to see who the best baker is, then sell or raffle the treats.

The perfect Pink Friday cupcake

For 20-ish cakes, you will need:

• 125g soft unsalted butter
• 125g caster sugar
• 2 beaten eggs
• 225g plain flour
• 1tsp baking powder
• 100ml milk

Preheat your oven to 180°C/gas mark 4. Cream together the butter and sugar (if you have an electric whisk, whisk until the mixture is pale and fluffy). Slowly add the beaten egg, mixing as you go. Fold in the sifted flour and baking powder. Add the milk and keep stirring until smooth. Spoon your cake mixture into paper cases laid in cake tins. Bake for 20-25 mins until tops are golden and a knife goes into the mixture and comes out clean. Cool before you add your topping.  

Girls night in

Invite your friends over for a pamper party or chick flick night – all for a Pink Fridays price, of course!

Pink Fridays night out

If you're more of a party-after-dark-girl then make it a Pink Fridays night! Head to a karaoke club and asks your friends to make a donation per song or organise a free venue and sell tickets to your own party.

‘Pink Fridays are always great fun (they have held Pink Fridays for the past three years) and approached very positively and with lots of enthusiasm. Everyone enjoys dressing in pink, including the men! We have had personal contact with breast cancer via our club members. We are committed to Breast Cancer Care and recognise its valuable work throughout society.’ 
Maureen and Michelle Jones, Walk this Way line dancing club Wolverhampton

Have you got the x-factor?

Contests are a great way to have fun and raise extra cash at your party. How about a karaoke competition or a dance-off? Charge £2 to enter and offer a prize for the winner.

Zumba fever

If you’re a Zumba fan you could ask your instructor to make your class pink for the day and have your own pink fitness party. 

Get raffle ready

Why not hold a tombola or raffle? Ask local businesses to donate prizes and charge £2 a ticket.

Under the hammer 

Ask everyone to donate a pink item and auction them off. 

Party games in the classroom

Use the last hour of the day for a mini Pink Fridays party in the classroom. Why not play games like pin the tail on the Pink Fridays pig, or pass the Pink Fridays parcel?

'Well, my lovely daughters, all our girly friends and I will be preening and pampering ourselves at our Pink Fridays pamper-yourself-silly party! There will be pedicures, manicures, massages, face masks and all things pink and decadent at this wonderful affair! Get yourselves looking absolutely gorgeous in time for the weekend and just think, because it's for such a great cause you'll be left feeling beautiful inside as well!'
Vanessa Feltz party tip

Stop work an hour early

A great excuse to shut down your computer and spend time with your workmates. You could also hold a quiz night and charge for pink food and drink in-between rounds.

If you are having a Pink Fridays party, download our fab pink party poster to tell everyone about it. We also have a poster especially for schools to download.