Fundraising for country football club?

Question

Due to drought and tightnening of purse strings in the country, I am after ways to fundraise for our local football club to cover costs of running it, and to help families get to games that are some weeks, 150kms away, but as its our only social outlet, its very important as a community that we try to save this culture.

Any ideas on fun and worthwhile fundraisers to keep us afloat would be much appreciated. (its finally raining as I write this, but that doesnt help us today!)

Answer 1

A couple of ideas, Speak too local shop owners and ask them too donate some things for a raffle and get each player too sell a set amount of tickets.Get all the fellas together and get some wood (wood drive) and then auction the loads off at a community market.

speak too you're local member for Parliament and get them too push for some funding (grants). cow pat lotto, Mark some squares on the footy field, number them, the cow s***s in a numbered square and you have a winner. sell tickets for 100 bucks and set the prize money.

Player auction, lastman standing, cocktail night.

Google fundraising ideas and that will give you a couple of ideas

Answer 2

I used to work for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and one of my favorite fundraising events I put on was...

A baby photo contest. Now at first, it doesn't sound that great, but they were very easy and raised a lot of money.

What we did was go to a local mall that had a photography shop in it.

   You get entrants by offering a free professional 8 X10 photo of their baby.    That won't cost you anything because  the photoshop in the mall if approached right will most willingly provide the free 8X10 picture to anyone who wanted to enter the contest. They are more than happy too because they know the people will buy many more copies. Also, it will promote the store in more ways than one.

    Next, you talk to the mall manager, and ask  for an area in the mall to display the pictures. They too should be very willing because the promotion draws people into the mall. After a while, it ends up being a very cute display.

  The photoshop supplies you with the picture, which you give to the entrant after the contest.

     Then people can vote on their favorite for $1 a vote. Let people vote as much as they like.

   Prizes for the contest can be secured by talking to other stores in the mall.... Especially ones that cater to people with babies.

    You end it all with an awards presentation. Invite the local newspapers or just write an article yourself and submit it to them.

   Try to give lots of recognition to as many of the entrants as posiible and make the awards ceremony fun!

     It's a great promotion, because everyone wins.   The photostore, the mall and especially your organization.

    We made a lot of money doing this.

If you have any questions about it, feel free to email me.

Good Luck

Answer 3

This site has lots of good fundraising event ideas with a lot of them being free or low cost to put together:

http://www.fundraiserhelp.com/fundraisin...

Good luck!