A Trivia Night Fundraiser Ready in Minutes

Most fundraisers happen once a year, so you do not need a subscription. One Event Pass covers your trivia night fundraiser for 72 hours from activation, which is your first game start. There is nothing to cancel, and an unused pass lasts 12 months, so you can buy it early. Passes are sold on the Quizado website and in the web app; the pricing page shows the current prices.

The Base Pass gives you every Starter feature for the event, including the premium question packs. The Full Pass gives you every Business feature, including your logo on screen, Music Bingo and the question sets you write yourself.

A school, charity, church or club running its own trivia fundraiser needs only the Base or Full Pass. The Commercial Pass is for a company, such as an events agency, that sells the game as part of an event it organises for a client: it needs one Commercial Pass per client event.

Hosting a trivia night fundraiser takes five steps. First, pick the date, the venue and the cause, and sell tickets or tables through whatever your organisation already uses. Quizado runs the quiz, not the ticketing.

Second, build the night: four to six rounds from ready-made packs or your own questions. Third, test the big screen and one phone join at the venue before the night. Fourth, on the night, teams scan the QR code and answer on their phones while Quizado keeps the score on screen. Fifth, announce the winners and the total raised before people leave.

Trivia night fundraiser ideas that raise more money: a raffle or a 50/50 draw in the break, a sponsor for each round, an auction for the right to pick the next category, and a prize for the best team name.

Do the sum before you book the room. An example: 15 teams of 6 players, each paying 10 in your currency, bring 900 at the door. Add what the raffle, the sponsors and the drinks or food share from the venue bring, then take away the room, the prizes and the Event Pass.

These numbers are only an example, not a promise. Your total depends on your ticket price, your crowd and your extras. Set a goal, say it at the start of the night, and announce the total before people leave.

The door: one or two people take the entry fees, check tickets and help each team find a table. The host: one person runs the game from a phone or a laptop. Host Coach shows each step and a line to say, so a first-time host can do it.

The screen: one person connects the TV or projector and tests one phone join before the doors open. The raffle and sponsors: one or two people sell tickets in the break and thank the sponsors. Nobody keeps score on paper: each game shows its scores on the big screen.

0:00 Doors open. Teams find a table and scan the QR code to join. 0:15 Welcome: say what the money is for, thank the sponsors and explain the rules. 0:20 Family Face-Off on stage as the warm-up: one captain from each of up to 4 tables plays the survey board while the room cheers. It has its own winner and a small prize.

0:45 Break: raffle tickets, drinks and a word from the cause. 1:00 The main contest: one Bar Trivia game for every table, played on the team phones, with the scores on the big screen. 1:50 Winners, prizes and the total raised.

Write the rules on the ticket page and say them again at the start: the largest team size, the entry fee for each player, no phones for searching answers, and what late teams can still join.

Decide who can win the prizes, for example only teams that paid, and how a tie is broken. Quizado has a tie-breaker ready if the top teams finish level, so the decision is quick and fair.