I know you’re all busy building your Bathtub boats and designing your costumes, but just want to take 5 minutes to give you a few ideas for raising money this year.

Each year money is raised in various ways from collections to raffles and competitions; if you want to get involved this is a short guide to let you know how you can do your bit!

Enter!

The most exciting way to raise money is to take part! It’s £20 per bathtub boat, so a fiver each if there are 4 in a tub, and you get to take part in the race itself. Click here to find out more about entering.

Team collection

If you are participating as part of a team representing a business or establishment, you might want to get a collection going as some of last years contestants did (e.g. South Downs pub in Felpham had a collection going on the bar).

If you want to do this, let us know and we can provide you with a some flyers and information to let your friends and customers know they are donating to a good cause.

Charity Raffle

We are currently looking for some more donations towards the raffle from local businesses (although you don’t even need to be local!). If you think you have a product or service suitable for the raffle we’d love to hear from you.

In return you will get your logo, link and a blurb on our website about your service and will be announced with your prize when the raffle is drawn.

For those wanting to take part – raffle tickets will be available for sale on the day.

This year The Incredible Arundel Festival Bathtub Race will be donating all money raised to the Chestnut Tree House charity.

Last year we raise £797.14p for Chestnut Tree House.

To find out more about Chestnut Tree House please visit http://www.chestnut-tree-house.org.uk/

We are currently working on various fund raising ideas surrounding the Bathtub Race so watch this space for more information and check the blog for fund raising ideas.

T.S. Sussex from Littlehampton will once again be assisting with safety boat cover for this years race.  Last year they had a very enjoyable day,  but complained that not enough people fell in!

They will also be entering a crew to defend their Youth Team trophy.  Victory was theirs despite at one stage turning their boat over to see if it was any faster upside down!

Once again Judith and her ambulance crew will be keeping a watchful eye on us all.  There has never been anything more than the odd scrape to deal with, and they thoroughly enjoy their day.  Wealden Medical Services attend everything from rock concerts to equestrian events to motor cross, but admit this is one of the most bizarre and most enjoyable of their days out.

If you’re taking part this year, we’re looking for willing contestants to keep a blog in the run up to the event.

If you want to write a blog detailing your quest for building the ultimate bathtub, any training (ha ha!) that you may be doing, or whatever else you want to write, we want to hear about it.

This is purely for fun!

Also if you have a video camera, and want to document your bathtub building, costume making, we can put them on the website.

The weirder / funnier / more entertaining the better.

On the day we are going to be filming the event and interviewing willing contestants for a behind the scenes film, and your ‘diary’ could be included in the film.

Get in touch at webmaster@arundelbathrace.com