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Selling Scrap Metal to Raise Funds for Your School

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While typical fundraisers like school fairs and cookie sales fundraisers can be a great way to make money for your school, sometimes maximising funds involves thinking outside the box. One unique way many schools are now using to raise money is selling scrap metal through a scrap drive. Here's all you need to know about how to make this fundraising method work for you. 

What Is a Scrap Drive?

Just like a blood drive brings people together to donate blood, a scrap drive brings people together to donate scrap metal. A school fundraising scrap drive is an event which asks parents and teachers to gather up any scrap metal they have lying around their home or yard and donate it to the school. Once your school has finished collecting scrap metal, you can then sell it to a metal recycling plant. It's one of the most simple fundraising ideas out there, but it's also one of the best.

What Makes Scrap Drives Great Fundraisers?

There are many reasons why selling scrap metal is one of the best fundraising activities a school can try. For one, it requires very little time and effort for your faculty to put together. School fairs, for example, can take months of planning and organising stalls and games to make the event a success. With a scrap drive, on the other hand, no prior planning is required—you can start yours at any time whenever you need some extra funds. Another advantage scrap drives have over school fairs and sales fundraisers is that there's no initial investment needed. For a fair, you'll need to invest in items and food, and for a sales fundraiser, you'll need to buy the products that will be sold. The only thing you need for a scrap metal drive is a place to store the metal, which you'll likely already have on school grounds. As an added bonus, scrap drives also help the environment by protecting and recycling natural resources—you can easily use yours as a learning topic in class.

How Do You Set Up a Scrap Drive?

The process of setting up a scrap drive is quick and simple. First, find a great scrap metal recycling plant to sell to. Take a look at the buying prices of all the plants in your area to work out which one will net your school the biggest profit. Then, all you need to do is set up recycling bins or open up a storage shed on your school grounds and spread the word that the scrap drive has started. You can do this quickly and easily by texting parents or sending home a flyer with each student. After running the drive for a few weeks, just call your scrap plant and they'll collect the metal for you, sort it, then pay you in the form of a cheque or bank transfer.


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