Opus Energy, The Fun Way to Raise Money – Children in Need/ Red Nose Days

Opus Energy regularly organises charity days to raise money for annual fundraising activities. In previous year’s Opus Energy’s Northampton office has been turned into a bad taste zone. Employees are invited to dress up as badly as possible and donate £1 to charity anyone who turned up to work in their normal clothes had to pay £2 for the privilege…it pays to dress badly!! The day is always a brilliant success with most people participating, some highlights have been: the Customer Service Manager wearing a fetching peach bridesmaid dress that she wore 19 years ago, accompanied by the matching head dress and trainers with ankle socks.
Some of the other delights included: clashing colours, headscarves, bright pink blusher, glitter tops, stripes, outrageous prints, side ponytails and leg warmers but the 2006 winner is the most memorable and overwhelmingly voted the ‘worst dressed winner’ she sported an amazing floral all-in-one jumpsuit (kindly donated by her Grandmother) over a sparkly purple jumper!!

Other activities which take place throughout the year to bring a little fun and excitement to the working day include:

• Christmas Party Raffles with fantastic prizes: spa days, football tickets, signed football shirts, rugby tickets, designer handbags and much much more.
• Pizza, doughnut and other takeaways, which are donated by local restaurants and shops which staff then make donations to enjoy
• Rugby and football sweepstakes – regular departmental and office wide sweepstakes with the money going to charity
• Cake baking, guess the number of sweets in a jar, Easter egg hunts – we like to bring a little fun to the working day and if it raises money for charity even better!!

Anything silly, fun, or involving food we will try – please email us if you have any other ideas which work well and raise money.