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It's easy to take part in Wrong Trousers' Day and show your support for Wallace & Gromit's Children's Foundation! You can join thousands of people in work, schools and nurseries across the UK on Wrong Trousers' Day to help sick children in hospitals and hospices across the UK. Simply register above for a free fundraising pack and get planning your Wrong Trousers' Day!

Wrong Trousers' Day at Work
Wrong Trousers' Day at School
Wrong Trousers' Day with Friends

Wrong Trousers' Day at Work
Encourage everyone in your workplace to take part – put up lots of posters around your department or send them out to your sites or branches and ask your Manager for support.

Many companies will match the amount of money you raise £ for £ which is great for publicity and it’s good for their tax return too!

If you have a company uniform policy or a strict health and safety policy, then show your support by wearing a Wrong Trousers' Day sticker and remember to collect your £1 donation in your special wrong trousers day collection box in your fundraising pack.

Zip it! Or maybe just collect the extra change in your office in a Swear Box!

Wrong Trousers Day at School

We need YOU to join thousands of pupils and staff across the country to help celebrate Wrong Trousers' Day!

The first thing you need to do is register for a free fundraising pack
Appoint some Wrong Trousers' Day co-ordinators for your school. We call them ‘The Big Cheese’ and these monitors have their own ‘Big Cheese’ stickers in the fundraising pack!
Put up posters around the school – in classrooms and noticeboards
Tell your parents that your school is taking part in Wrong Trousers' Day – put a piece in your newsletter and/or send a note home to all parents, click Schools_letter for a draft letter
Download the school lesson plans and assembly plans and other fun stuff here and arrange for it to be shown in your school a week before Wrong Trousers' Day to remind everyone about the day
Have a look at our Cracking Fundraising Ideas here to make Wrong Trousers' Day extra special in your school
Make sure you have enough stickers for everyone in your school
Make sure you have enough collection boxes to collect everyone’s donation on the day

On Wrong Trousers' Day itself:

Wear your ‘Big Cheese’ stickers
Distribute stickers to everyone who is wearing Wrong Trousers
Collect contributions from everyone in your collection box

Count all the cash you have raised and pay it in to the bank or send it to us. Click here for more information about how to pay your donation in to us.

Wrong Trousers' Day with Friends

What could be easier than organising for a few friends to come around for coffee, lunch or supper wearing the wrong trousers?

Maybe you’re having a BBQ and you could make a collection for Wrong Trousers' Day amongst your friends?

Maybe you’re getting together with a group of friends at a party, in a bar or in a restaurant? All you have to do is pass the collection box around to help raise vital funds!