Wear A Hat Day 2025: Make a Difference
Wear a Hat Day 2025 – it’s exactly what it says on the tin. The idea is that you don your best headwear all for the brilliant cause of raising money for Brain Tumour Research. Wear A Hat Day 2025 takes place on Friday, March 28th 2025 and is a brilliant and simple way to get fundraising for a good cause. Start your GoFundMe today and get raising ahead of the event!
What is Wear A Hat Day?
Wear A Hat Day is exactly that – wearing a hat all to raise money and awareness for Brain Tumour Research. But it also provides a brilliant excuse to put on even more fundraising events around the same time to raise money for that good cause, and have fun with it too. In the UK there are approximately 12,700 new cases of brain tumors each year, which is about 35 cases per day. Brain tumors are the 9th most common cancer in the UK, accounting for 3% of all new cancer cases. About 1 in 7 people diagnosed with brain cancer today are predicted to survive for at least ten years, so it’s a cause that affects people all around us.
How to get involved
If you want to get involved in Wear A Hat Day 2025, luckily it couldn’t be easier. Firstly, find your best and jazziest headwear, put it on and get raising awareness! There are plenty of straightforward ideas on how you can get in on it, including:
- Hat-themed events at work, in school or in your community – why not persuade everyone in the office to wear a hat or ask if your local school would consider a fundraising drive where children wear them?
- Share your selfies with hashtags like #WearAHatDay and #BrainTumourAwareness
- Start a GoFundMe fundraiser for a relevant charity and get people to donate
Any of the above ideas can also have a GoFundMe alongside them to raise money for the cause – if you’d like to learn more, here’s how to create a fundraiser from start to finish.”
Fundraising ideas for Wear A Hat Day
If you’ve decided you’d like to fundraise for Wear A Hat Day, it couldn’t be easier to get involved. Here are some ideas to get you started.
Hat day parties at work or school
On Wear A Hat Day, why don’t you encourage your workplace, children’s school, friends and family or even just the community to Wear A Hat? You can do this by throwing Hat Day parties in any of these areas. Start your GoFundMe page and publicise what you’re doing well in advance, along with circulating the link. Then get people to arrive in their hats and make a small donation. You can plan fun party day activities too – perhaps a quiz or party lunch. Remember to take pictures and have fun!
Host a virtual hat challenge on social media
The power of social media for fundraising is a brilliant thing to harness and provides a lot of flexibility for anyone to get involved, too. Why not launch your own fundraising challenge, asking your community to get in on it too? It could be something as simple as a best hat competition, where those entering make a donation to your fundraiser and post their pictures with a hashtag. Or ask people to start their own GoFundMe pages, challenging themselves to wear a different hat each day for a week. The possibilities are endless – just make sure to utilise your online community and keep sharing your fundraiser link!
Hat decorating competition
Another simple but incredibly effective idea would be a hat decorating competition. You could either run this in person at school, work or a local community group, or even encourage people to do it at home and post pictures to social media. Ask for a small entry donation and set the theme of the decorations as you wish – it doesn’t need to be elaborate or expensive and could be something like ‘best hat made from household items’.
Create a DIY hat fundraising kit or workshop
If you really want to get those creative juices flowing you could also set up a workshop teaching people how to design and make their own hats. Maybe you’re creative yourself or know someone who is? Get them involved and ask for a small donation to join the classes. Again, it doesn’t need to be elaborate or expensive and could involve just simple craft items.
Set up a donation jar
Setting up a donation jar around Wear A Hat Day is an incredibly simple way to see donations rolling in. Ask if you can put it somewhere prominent, such as a reception desk at school or in the break room of your office, with a notice on what you’re fundraising for. Be sure to set it up well in advance of Wear A Hat Day to maximise what you can raise.
Collaborate with local businesses for sponsorships or partnerships
A really good way to get clout behind your fundraising is asking local businesses if they’d like to get involved. This might be something like a sponsorship or partnership, or asking if they would back a fundraiser for the same cause in their office, harnessing the power of employees. You could also ask if they’d do something like match donations up to a certain amount too.
If you’ve been inspired by these ideas and want to look at more, take a look at our blog here.
GoFundMe makes fundraising simple – your next steps
Step 1 – set up your GoFundMe page
It couldn’t be easier to set up your GoFundMe page. It’s free to start a page and the earlier you get going, the more likely you are to raise money. You can start a GoFundMe page here and our website will take you through each easy, fast step to get going.
Step 2 – share your story
Now, this is a really important step in starting your fundraiser – thinking about how to tell your story on your GoFundMe page. The fundraiser story is a really important part in explaining to potential donors why they should donate, so put in as much personal detail and information as you feel comfortable with as to why you’ve chosen this cause. You can personalise your fundraiser story with pictures and video, too.
Step 3 – set your goal
Now it’s time to set your goal – how much would you like to raise? Don’t worry, you can change this at any time but have a target in mind.
Step 4 – share with others
So, you’ve got your fundraiser page set up. It’s time to get shouting about it now! Share the link to all your social media channels, explaining why you’re fundraising. If you’ve got any communities or groups on Facebook (maybe your local area? Your school? A hobby?) post it there too. Utilise those family and friend group chats and email lists to get it out to as wide a group as possible. And don’t forget the classic offline strategies too – make posters and ask local businesses if you can put them up, print off QR codes and make leaflets. We’ve got more tips for sharing your fundraiser here.
It couldn’t be easier to start a GoFundMe for free. We are a custom-built platform for fundraising, meaning all the tools you need to have a successful fundraiser are right here. We’ve got a team of experts on hand to help guide you through so that you can really make a difference. Plus, if you’re fundraising for a registered charity you can set up a fundraiser where the donations go directly to them, making it even faster and safer. Learn more about how GoFundMe works here.