- BBQ’s – local fairs, hardware stores, co-ops, auctions, plowing matches and other community events
- Mother’s Day Brunch
- Father’s Day Brunch
- Ice Cream Booth
- Dances
- Clothing Drive
- Food Drive
- Christmas Toy Drive
- Bachelor/Bachelorette Auction
- Foodbooth at local fairgrounds
- Car Wash
- Bottle Drive
- Euchre night for community members
- Trivia night
- Clean up at Conservation Areas and parks
- Pig Roast
- Free BBQ lunch give-away – to give back to the community.
- Beautification of a main intersection/roadway (flowers etc) – good way to
- advertise JF
- Battery Drive
- Fixing up signs
- Beef BBQ
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- Adopt a family at Christmas
- Become involved in other organizations’ fundraisers - 30 hour famine, Heart &
- Stroke, Meals on Wheels, etc.
- Car Rally
- Help out with a community wish list – plant flowers, fix up a park, donate funds
- Send a kid to camp
- Scholarships and bursary money for schooling
- Sponsor a community event
- Do activities with seniors – cards, games, visiting nursing homes, host a dinner
- Have a ‘charity of the month’
- Do a food bank collection at Halloween – “Trick or Eats”
- Help out opening/closing summer camps and fixing playgrounds
- Build picnic tables for your local fair board or municipality
- Paint fences/buildings/trash cans
- Construct a float
- Sponsor a child through World Vision or Foster Parent’s Plan
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- Lead a 4-H club – dance club, calf club….
- Host a sports night with local 4-H
- Sleigh Ride
- Hosting any club activity along with 4-H – ex. strawberry social
- Hosting an awards night / dance for 4-H
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- Farm Safety Day http://www.fsai.on.ca/
- Pizza Ingredient Education Project
- Mock Auction – this can be done as a club activity or involve your local 4H
- Farm tour – JF club, local school, or daycare
- Foodgrains project http://www.foodgrainsbank.ca/
- Grown in […..] student awareness project
- 4-H agricultural clubs
- JF delegate presentation on an international exchange
- Straw Maze
- Host Junior Farmer’s Olympics – local fairs, plowing matches etc.
- Host a “Pedal Pull” at your local fair
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- Road Adoption/Clean-up
- River Adoption/Clean-up
- Park Adoption/Clean-up
- Christmas tree collection and mulching
- Distribute and demonstrate use of composters
- Water barrels – distribution and promote their use
- Do a community clean-up project
- Do a hazardous waste clean-up - batteries, plastic bags, paint
- Build and install bird or bat houses
- Plant trees
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