Run, bake, walk, or do something wonderfully silly.
“Help us please. Lindsey and team.”
From the Penny's Ark Facebook · April 2026
Most of our fundraising is people doing things at home and on weekends.
Penny's Ark is a small charity. We don't run galas or corporate sponsorship packages. We run on small, community-led fundraisers and a Christmas auction in a Facebook group. The numbers below are real. So is the cake & coffee morning at the village green.
If you have an idea, a marathon, a craft sale, a dress-down day at work, a book of pet portraits, we would love to hear it. Email us and we will help you get started.
Bid on donations, fund the vet bills.
Every month we run an online auction in a Facebook group. Supporters donate things: handmade items, art prints, wreaths, hampers. The rest of the supporters bid on them. Bidding is fun, the items are good and the dogs get the proceeds.
Run by Fiona Bond, the long-standing auction lead. The community texture matters as much as the takings. A normal post is a kennel-mate getting “fish knots (thank you Avril) and chicken from everyone who supports the auction.”
Four fundraisers, four different shapes.
Not abstract examples. These are the kinds of fundraisers that actually happen at Penny's Ark: small, real, often run by one person with their family.
Cake & coffee morning
Debbie Barfoot · Village Green, Basingstoke · 11am Saturday
Debbie organised the whole thing. Cake, coffee, a tombola, the Dulux dog-name guess, hand-made craft stalls, art by her son Thomas Barfoot, pet portraits live, Meet The Artist, and a few Penny's Ark dogs along for the day. RG23 8QW. £682.40 raised, in one morning, in a village in Hampshire.
Sponsored walk over the summer
Ben (age 9) · Summer holidays
Our youngest fundraiser. Ben decided to walk 82km over the summer holidays to raise money for the dogs. Alongside the walk he made posters and ran toy sales at Debbie's coffee morning. The whole walk got done. Dexter the foster dog showed up at the finish wearing a new raincoat (he wasn't convinced).
Easyfundraising: every shop, a small donation
Hundreds of online shoppers · ongoing
Sign up at easyfundraising.org.uk, pick Penny's Ark, and every time you shop online afterwards a small donation comes our way. It costs you nothing. £468.48 collected so far. Most of it from people we've never met taking 30 seconds at checkout.
An evening at Coast
Karen Potter Estate Agents · Southport · April 2024
Our first big evening event, sponsored by Karen Potter, Southport's leading estate agents, at the Coast venue. Raffle, auction, live music, a roomful of Southport supporters. Karen's team brought the local-business network; we brought the dogs. £1,867.46 raised on the night.
Start your own fundraiser.
Send us an email and we'll get back to you within a few days. We help you find photos, copy, and a target. You do the doing.
Email what you're planning
Marathon, bake sale, dress-down day, sponsored silence. We answer every email and we don't say no to ideas.
Photos, copy, a target
We'll send you sanctuary photos, a dog story, a target number, and the words to put on a poster or fundraising page.
Do your thing
Take photos. Post them. We'll cheer you on. When you're done we'll thank you in public and tell you exactly which dog you helped.
We read every email and will get back to you within a few days.