Raffle wins it for charity Odd donations Top events

Pauline House donned a reindeer costume and ran a tombola with the help of her colleagues Bali Kaur, Nikki Gossal, and Tracey Hamlet THE CAF top 10 list of unusual items donated to charity includes: A sheep’s head (Sue Ryder) A prosthetic leg (Emmaus) A ventriloquist dummy (British Heart Foundation) A Victoria Cross Medal (CAF) Property (ranging from a townhouse in central London to rural chocolate box cottages) A moon flask (Oxfam) A pair of canaries (Cancer Research UK) A live ferret (Blue Cross For Pets) A wedding dress used in an episode of Coronation Street (Guide Dogs For The Blind)

A Kermit The Frog puppet from the 1970s THE 10 most popular fundraising events for people to have taken part in during 2016 were: 1 Raffle (19%) 2 Tea and coffee morning (11%) 3 Bake sale (9%) 4 Quiz (8%) 5 Fancy dress / dress down day (5%) 6 Second hand sale (4%) 7 Walking (3%) 8 Charity auction (3%) 9 Putting on a performance / doing something creative (3%)

10 Running (2%) KIND-HEARTED supermarket staff have given a charity a festive boost.

Staff at Tesco in Huddersfield sang Christmas carols around the store’s Christmas tree and held a tombola to raise funds for good causes.

And this year they selected Diabetes UK and the British Heart Foundation to support.

They ran a weekend of fundraising events in December at the Viaduct street supermarket.

And Tesco employee Pauline House donned a Rudolph the Reindeer costume and ran a tombola with the help of her colleagues Bali Kaur, Nikki Gossal, and Tracey Hamlet.

Their efforts paid off and the supermarket raised £453.67p for both charities.

The traditional charity raffle was a particular favourite among older people. People aged over 54 were twice as likely to have taken part in a raffle within the last year than those under 25.

Overall, more women than men said they had taken part in a fundraising event in 2016. This mirrors previous research which shows that women in the UK are consistently more likely than men to support charities.

Numbers sponsoring people to do something for charity have increased significantly in recent years.

About one in three people in the UK (32%) sponsored someone in 2015 according to CAF’s UK Giving 2015 report. When CAF conducted similar research in 2010/11, 11% of people said they had sponsored someone for charity.