Fund Raising for Childrens Sports Clubs

[Kingy]

I am currently trying to raise money for a childrens rugby club. We'd like to go on tour to somewhere abroad, but the cost may be prohibitive. (30 players in total)

Some suggestions so far have been for us to organise a Race Night/hold raffles/do bag packing at a local supermarket and try to get local businesses to sponsor us.

Some of these have been tried before, by other teams, but with limited success.

Does anyone know of some new and innovative ways to raise money in a 6 month period? (possibly � 8000)

[stoo_pid]

We organised a sponsored swim for the BHF a few years ago that raised a couple of thousand quid. We managed to persuade the leisure centre to let us use half the pool on one of their quieter nights for free (in return for some free publicity). Of course, it's a little easier to get people to donate to Heart Disease research but yours still sounds like a worthy cause to me. (And you should have at least 30 fit participants!)

[NoGood Boyo]

I'd go for sponsorship if you can get it. Other ways of raising money require effort and organisation and possibly capital outlay. If you are not sure how to sell the idea of sponsorship yourself, you could talk to a local advertising or marketing agency near you and the club. Pick their brains and use their ideas in return for a published credit for them if you are able to raise sponsorship money. If you think like the major players, you'll get similar results, but on a smaller scale.

[liljoolz]

how about a kids disco, bake sale, auctions - auction off the kids to do boring jobs for the other parents, the line may i beg, steal or borrow...? usually works, i got a limo to use in my uni short film last year for free using that line and i also got a jpb saying that i made great tea. my office had a sponsored spinners evening where the 5 who worked there had to keep a bike spinning for 12 hours. thankfully i joined the team after this event however i did have to absail down a building.