Set up the room and make sure your pies are hot and your drinks are cold!

Slap on your Pie Captain sticker and have a chin wag about Challenge with your guests.

If you are involved with Challenge tell your story.

Ask for a couple of bucks from your mates to help little Aussie battlers living with cancer.

As a fun way to raise money and awareness for Challenge and its programs, use the novelty Feel Good Pie slices in your pack and:

• Auction the slices to create fun and excitement during your event
• Set a target and as you reach it display the Feel Good Pie slices to make up the Feel Good Pie!

Take some happy snaps and send your favourites to: mail@challenge.org.au

Some other ideas for your event are:

• Friday night football. The true blue Aussie tradition of football and meat pies
• Pie day on a Friday. Organise pies for lunch at your work or school!
• Have a dress up theme for your pie night or day such as football colours, Aussie icons, favourite sports stars
• Have a dinner party with gourmet pies
• Have a party with "party pies"!
• Organise footy lunch in the tuck-shop (pie and drink special)
• Face painting
• Dollar for Dollar matching; ask if your company is willing to match the funds raised by staff.

• Have a dinner party with gourmet pies
  
• Have a dress up theme for your pie night or day such as football colours, Aussie icons, favourite sports stars
• Have a party with party pies
• Wack the footy on and invite your friends for the true blue football and meat pies experience
• Ask your guests to bring a pie each
• Get your kinder or playgroup involved
• Have a Biggest Aussie Pie Night birthday party
• Get your local bakery to donate pies and charge a cover charge for a night of footy and pies
• Have local businesses donate goods and services which can be raffled off on the night

Ideas at School:

• Ask your principle, or relevant staff member about holding a pie day as part of The Biggest Aussie Pie Night
• Explain that it supports little Aussie battlers living with cancer
  
• See if you can get a local business to donate some pies or ask at the canteen if they have the Four N’ Twenty schools range
• Hold a raffle
• Talk about Pythagoras, percentages, history of the pie, times in history that Australians have banded together to help little aussie battlers, write a song about pie nights, produce a Pie day skit for your class
• Wear your footy colours
• Dress as an Aussie Icon
• Pie day on a Friday. Organise pies for lunch at school!
  
• Have a dress up theme for your pie night or day such as football colours, Aussie icons, favourite sports stars
  
• Have a party with "party pies"!
  
• Organise footy lunch in the tuck-shop (pie and drink special see downloads for a token)
  
• Face painting 
  
• Create a school pie cart and wheel it around at lunch time
  
• Dress up as a pie seller calling "Hot pies, Hot Pies" for that live football atmosphere
• Learn how to make pies in class
• Implement a kick off program in your school to coincide with Pie day

Ideas at your Club:

• Get the wider community involved, it’s a great opportunity to showcase your club and get new members
• Get the local media to promote your night (media release download)
• Invite the whole community
• Let the footy show know
• Get the local traders to contribute goods to auction off on the night (download form)
• Hold a raffle
• Use the download invite and insert it into your newsletter to promote the night
• Use the Pie and Drink token in the downloads section to help you on the night
• Handball comp
• Goal kicking comp

Ideas at your Work:

• End of footy tipping? Announce your winners at your very own pie night!
• Pie day on a Friday
  
• Take the team to the local bowls club and have a few pies on the green
• Pies at after work drinks
• Ask your company to match the amount raised by staff
• Pie cart at lunch time
• Ask our friends at Artistic catering for their Biggest Aussie Pie Night deal
• Pies at your staff meeting
• Wear your footy colours to work
  
• Ask everyone to make a pie or bring their favourite pie
• Party pies
• Make your pie day a casual day where money is donated

Ask for a donation and run competitions for small prizes.

Some ideas are:

• Pie in the sky! See how high you can throw a pie!
• Hand ball competition! – The old footy favourite!
• Raffle
• Pie baking competition
• Kicking competition
• Free throw competition
• Handball competition
• Goal kicking competition
• Longest kick
• Markers up game
• Skills circuit (handball, kicking, bouncing)
• Guess the theme song
• Teachers vs students footy game

Your only limited by your imagination, just make it fun and simple!

 Feel free to call 1800 828 855 if you're stuck.