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General Cricket => Cricket Admin, Facilities and Fundraising => Fundraising => Topic started by: calvin1mac on January 05, 2013, 11:36:57 PM
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Just thought I start a thread on club fundraising. I thought it may be some help to some people, and I am always looking for new ideas myself if you wish to come back to me.
A quick back ground about my club.
The club was founded in 1879, the land and ground's were given to the people of the village by the local landowner. When the landowner emigrated he put the land in trust with the local council, until 2008 when the 99 year lease expired. The council has now decided to charge us rent for the use of the land which means the operating costs of the club are around £6000 - £7000 a year, (minimum). That might not sound allot but as an amateur club, which basically only operates for 6 months it still takes some finding.
After a bit of a scare with our our previous chairman nearly ending up going to court about non payment of rent it was decided to form a fundraising committee with the sole purpose of bringing in the money in order to keep the club afloat.
Having just come back from a year overseas I decided to give it ago. Well I was more or less pushed into doing it.
Unlike a number of other clubs we have no wealthy benefactors who are happy to plough money in, so I needed to come up with new ways to bring money in.
My first though was to approach local businesses for sponsorship, offering different packages depending on how much they were prepared to give.
Banners, website adverts, match ball sponsorship, shirt sponsorship etc etc.
I managed to get a local hotel to give us £250 a year, for which we give them an advert in our handbook, website, a banner down at the ground and also hold our end of season presentation dinner at the hotel.
Shirt Sponsorship, each season we have a new playing shirt. I managed to get a good deal from a well know sportswear supplier making custom made shirts, in our club colors, with a badge embroidered for £11.50. I then sold the front, back and sleeves of the shirt as advertising space to local business to have there logos placed on them. for example, £750 for the front, £300 for both sleeves and £300 for the back.
Each shirt was then sold to players for £15, a bargain if you ask me, including there own name and squad number printed on. I also managed to get this done for free with some free advertising. Try going to your local cricket shop and buy a cricket shirt for less than20 never mind with printing and embroidery.
One of the best things we have found over the last few ears has been a weekly meat tray. Especially over the summer because of BBQ season. A local butchers donates a really nice meat tray for every home game. This is then raffled and raised around £35-£70 a week depending on the numbers of people at the ground. As you can imagine over the season this brings in a nice little sum.
As a thank you for this again, we have a advertising banner at the ground, an advert on our website and club handbook and we also give them free tickets to our dinner. Everyone is happy and it all helps the club.
Bag packs at local supermarkets. Speak to the local Asda, Morrison's, Tesco's etc and ask if you can bring the juniors down to pack shoppers bags for them. It's a great way to bring in a few thousand if you do it a couple of times. You'll just need a few volunteers to supervise the kids.
Advertising Banners, I spoke to a number of businesses and offered them a banner. The cost of which was incorporated in the price. i.e if the banner cost £50, sell that to a business for £150 for the year then the following year a reduced rate of £100 was offered on a year by year basis.
Hundred club, basically you get someone to get 100 people to give you a pound every week. You can do this for the whole year or just the cricket season. I would suggest just the cricket season. Each week a draw is made, the 3 numbers draw win, £25, £15 & £10. £50 then goes to the club each week. If your not up to date the prize money goes back to the club. We've been running this for around 3 years now and its another good fundraiser.
Standing order schemes, you set this up to run for the entire yea at a set value. At our club we pay, cricket subs, social fees. This costs £70 so the bare minimum is £5.83 per month. Well if you are going to pay that you may as well round this figure off and the rest becomes a donation to the club. You can also add other things to this like kit, tickets to club/league dinners etc and it means the club has a steady stream of money coming in each month. Also stops the yearly moan when you ask players to part with cash.
I've found the best way is to build relationships with people and a you help me and this is how i can help approach seems to really work.
This year we are going to try raffling a years sponsorship with a cricket brand, a chili cookoff competition and a progressive dinner.
I'll write more about those later if anyone is interested but my fingers hurt now so I'm going to wrap up.
I hope this doesn't come across as teaching people how to suck eggs as i don't wish it to sound like that but i certainly could have done with some ideas about how to do this 4 years ago.
Hope someone finds this useful.
Cheers
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Run a fantasy cricket league within the club using club players! Charge say £10 to enter and then give prizes out for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. I'm doing it this year and if only have the club play it'll raise about 300 quid which isn't too bad.
You can do a winter footy one too but just base it off one of the many fantasy leagues there are around. What I'm aiming to do is use a web based one like premierleague.com and then people pay the website whatever it is and me £20 to enter.. manager of the month wins a prize, overall 1/2/3 get a prize and also the FA Cup winner gets a prize.. again.. shoudl raise a bit.
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Thanks for this mate. Our club has just appointed a fundraising officer to try and boost the cash we can make for the club as we're moving to a new ground and every little helps.
Particularly like the sound of the Hundered club, sounds like a great way to generate money while each members only losing a pound a go. I'll be sure to pass some of these on
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Interested in this Fantansy League idea, I am our sponsorship officer, we start our sponsored slim as a club on Wednesday which will hopefully raise some cash
How do you go about doing the fantasy league? Do you have some more details on how you price players and what you get points for etc?
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Well all I did was literally list out all the players from 2012 and their stats (every stat you get on play cricket basically)
Then I nominated each thing points (so you get 1 point per run scored etc etc).. Once you've decided what points to make everything (catches, run outs, runs, not outs, 4's, 6's, wickets etc) you then just work out who's statistically your best and worse players.. just assign them a value according to ability and then decide on a 'total' for your team etc.
Takes some tweaking to get the values right and some you just have to put in manually if you know they are going to play more this year, or less etc etc.
Once that's all done, you just have it all in a spreadsheet and then after each game just fill it in and let the macro's do all the work.
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http://www.easyfantasycricket.com/
I use that.
I have a similar role to you at my club. The juniors especially go mad for the fantasy cricket.
My big project this year is getting a large sponsor to pay for desperately needed roller covers. In exchnage they will get an ad board at the ground and their company name/logo on the covers themselves. As well as space in the fixture book and training kit sponsorship.
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We did one a few years ago which was as threat success, however the guy who organised it said never again. Way too much admin. You have to find the right balance.
One fundraising club day we had was the all round challenge. So during an afternoon we had a club 20-20 game and had challenges before and after. Catching, throwing, bowl outs, etc. Quid in per challenge and the winner got their name on a certificate on the noticeboard for the year. Had 4-5 challenges which brought about 15-20 quid each. Not bad great deal of money but there was via lot spent behind the bar.
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Really interesting topic and something I was going to start.
I play for a club that has both the benefit and drawback of being based in a National trust park. we have 2 grounds - 1 of which we self funded and established 4 seasons ago for our 3rd and 4th teams & junior training (due to the nature of the national trust and lack of funds we built giant sunhouses laid on recycled sleepers as changing rooms and a tea room which has electricity and water). The main ground has been used since the 1800's and as such the pavilion is a thatched wooden building, and whilst iconic as a landmark being a registered building we cannot extend nor bring it up to modern requirements of a club with 4 Saturday teams and a whole host of junior sides (I.e basic amenitues such as showers, electricity supply to the kitchen, lighting etc).
So we are embarking on a ambitious project for a new pavilion - again needing planning consent from English heritage, national trust and the local council the structure has numerous criteria to meet (which of couse drives the cost up). Having commissioned a architect and planning to go through planning consent over the next 6 months we are in the process of planning numerous fundraising activities as we need to raise roughly half of the build costs.
We are already doing some of the already mentioned schemes (but will certainly make a note of some of the other ideas :))+ the likes of 6 a side/ T20 competition, sponsor a brick. Has anyone been through something similar and have any suggestions / recommendations for fundraising?
Thanks!!!!
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Our club used to make about a 1-1.5k from bbq and bar takings in a day every season by running a six a side competition. We have also hosted youth league rep and cup final matches making similar amounts
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Our club used to make about a 1-1.5k from bbq and bar takings in a day every season by running a six a side competition. We have also hosted youth league rep and cup final matches making similar amounts
Bar takings certainly make a big difference, it's unfortunately a revenue stream that not all clubs have :(
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That fantasy league site looks brilliant
Might have to give this a go!
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True, can't imagine playing at a club without a bar. Brings its own set of problems but don't know how we could survive without it. Especially as it seems pretty much impossible for us to find sponsors at our level
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I like the simplicity of the fantasy cricket site. It's not quite as detailed as the one I built though. Plus, I wanted to promote the inclusion of youth players (and as they play less games etc) they needed factoring into it to encourage them to take part but more importantly make the seniors aware of juniors and vice versa.
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I managed to get a local hotel to give us £250 a year, for which we give them an advert in our handbook, website, a banner down at the ground and also hold our end of season presentation dinner at the hotel.
Is it just me, or does this seem a bit cheap? I mean the presentation dinner alone is going to generate a fair whack of revenue for the hotel alone, never mind the other advertising. But then again it's how desperate you were for sponsorship revenue.
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Is it just me, or does this seem a bit cheap? I mean the presentation dinner alone is going to generate a fair whack of revenue for the hotel alone, never mind the other advertising. But then again it's how desperate you were for sponsorship revenue.
Depends if they also got a good deal on the dinner through it I reckon
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Depends if they also got a good deal on the dinner through it I reckon
True, and he hasn't specified the number of people attending the dinner. But just reading it sprung out as being a bit below value
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Best bit about that fantasy site is they load the scorecards from playcricket, lifes a breeze!
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Best bit about that fantasy site is they load the scorecards from playcricket, lifes a breeze!
Yes this makes it very attractive as I didn't fancy getting lumbered with working everything out!
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But there's a lot of great ideas in this thread. And since I've put myself up for election for my club's committee this month (depending on work) I'll try and pass some of the ideas on.
It might just be my club, but one of the major things that annoys me with fund raising at my club is that if the committee don't want to do it they pull out the "we've tried it once and it didn't work. So we're not going to try it again".
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But there's a lot of great ideas in this thread. And since I've put myself up for election for my club's committee this month (depending on work) I'll try and pass some of the ideas on.
It might just be my club, but one of the major things that annoys me with fund raising at my club is that if the committee don't want to do it they pull out the "we've tried it once and it didn't work. So we're not going to try it again".
If you get enough people to back a decision, most major decisions can be voted on by all members at an AGM, including removal of stubborn old duffers on committees.
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But there's a lot of great ideas in this thread. And since I've put myself up for election for my club's committee this month (depending on work) I'll try and pass some of the ideas on.
It might just be my club, but one of the major things that annoys me with fund raising at my club is that if the committee don't want to do it they pull out the "we've tried it once and it didn't work. So we're not going to try it again".
I've encountered this before we managed to balance out the average age of our committee. I generally found that if you are prepared to take on the organisational work yourself then the committee will let you have a go.
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If you get enough people to back a decision, most major decisions can be voted on by all members at an AGM, including removal of stubborn old duffers on committees.
But there's no one wanting to replace the old duffers on the committee (probably because of the stronghold 3/4 committee members have). I've actually had this conversation tonight in the club! And told them the decisions I would make.
Fantasy Cricket game would be a good thing to do though I reckon as the 1st and 2nd team scorers are meant to keep up to date stats anyway so it shouldn't be too hard to give values to the stats
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Nice ideas here.
we have a corporate team and we did an Ipad (people love the idea of almost free ipad)raffle
Ipad was $499
And then we sold 1 raffle ticket for $10 and 3 for $20
We were able to raise around $2000
So $1500 for our corporate team was a very good collection
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Nice ideas here.
we have a corporate team and we did an Ipad (people love the idea of almost free ipad)raffle
Ipad was $499
And then we sold 1 raffle ticket for $10 and 3 for $20
We were able to raise around $2000
So $1500 for our corporate team was a very good collection
I think a lot of clubs are scared/unable to speculate to accumulate and that restricts them
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True, and he hasn't specified the number of people attending the dinner. But just reading it sprung out as being a bit below value
We have sponsorship from a hotel - the deal is we wear there sponsors on the shirts & of course advertise in the brochure we hand out to watching spectators as part of a collection/donation (we have a lot of people watching our games on a decent day). The hotel do not physically give any money BUT we hold our annual dinner there for free (i.e. they cover the cost of the room and food) and the sales of the tickets goes to the club (£20 / £25 per ticket). They of course do get bar sales on the night.
Maybe a interesting approach?
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As a cricket kit geek I ended up with a 2012 Kook Recoil 750 (basically new) that tbh, I didn't want. So, this year I've decided to mash it in with the fantasy cricket. I am going to charge £20 per entry and not only do they get the fantasy cricket rewards but every team will get a raffle ticket and in the draw if you win you win said bat.. As an incentive to the youth I've said the highest placed youth team member (so that's anyone who plays any form of youth cricket) at the end of the season will get a new Blueroom bat (upto £180) for the 2014 season. This is purely to get people playing as it'll be the first year it's run.
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PS - Storming thread calvin1mac !
I personally think things like these threads are needed as clubs as struggling to survive and 2012 has killed or nearly killed so many more.
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PS - Storming thread calvin1mac !
I personally think things like these threads are needed as clubs as struggling to survive and 2012 has killed or nearly killed so many more.
It's virtually killed the one I play at. We made a loss of nearly £16k...
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But there's no one wanting to replace the old duffers on the committee (probably because of the stronghold 3/4 committee members have). I've actually had this conversation tonight in the club! And told them the decisions I would make.
Fantasy Cricket game would be a good thing to do though I reckon as the 1st and 2nd team scorers are meant to keep up to date stats anyway so it shouldn't be too hard to give values to the stats
Hi Matt - if you want I can send you some screen shots of our fantasy league, to give you a image of what's what.
It was the 2nd year we ran it last year, 1st season it was weighted more towards batsmen - as an example I took a 7 for and someone who got a 20 odd not out and a couple of catches got more points :( But last season was more fair on a scoring system.
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Sorry should have mentioned we use http://www.easyfantasycricket.com/ also
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I've been thinking. No one around the Chelt area hire's bowling machines. So.. do people think it would be viable to buy in say 3 machines and then rent them out at the local indoor centre (I'd have to share the profit with them as it would be stored there etc). I'm thinking £20 for an hour with 20 balls per machine. You pay £20 deposit for the balls which is refundable on the return.
Opinions?
(It's aim would be for me to get my money back on the outlay of the machines etc BUT once it's paid for itself the profit would go to the club as a 'donation' per year so it's fundraising.. not me money making (although it's tempting to do that :) )
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tried Fantasy League a few times. Even written and Excel and SQL version for data inputting. Upshot is you spend a fair amount of time for not alot of money. My club were small but at best I got 15 entries which usually I had to chase everybody several times for teams and again for collection of monies (£10/£5 concessions). Then you need some prizes, some I got donated but it's still a cost. Finally the league develops into a procession or 2 horse race and everybody gets bored with it, even when I did manager of the months prizes. Unless you can get a critical mass of 30-40 entries it's not worth it.
Raffles are undervalued. When I was young, clubs use to spend the season flogging raffle tickets for some big draw and making plenty in the process.
Sponsorship depends as much on who you know as well as the people selling it. At Headingley we raked in £3.5k in sponsorship because we had connections and one of the committee members was an account manager at Capital Radio, use to selling. That said a bit of balls doesn't hurt, I got £500 by walking into a Pub and telling the landlord we'd drink £4k in a year if he sponsored us! Likewise a bit of door to door in the high street can get some decent results.
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Excellent topic.
We are a small club with 4 senior teams and one junior team. It's been largely one of those "stuffy old committees" for a long time, but this year we've had a changing of the guard and are looking for ways to rejuvinate things and bring the teams back to more of a club feeling.
In Australia, we have this exciting legislation called "responsible service of alcohol" outlawing anyone being responsible for their own actions and makes anyone who serves someone a beer legally responsible for anything the buyer does for the next month, which means we cant sell beer or run a legal gauntlet we cant afford.
We are sponsored by a local bowling club for a small amount, which is pretty much the only establishment in the small town bearing the name of our club.
Our fundraising is left one trivia night per year, which have been fun, but with a younger crowd and the absence of grog sales, I fear wont continue to cut the mustard, so these ideas everyone has have been wonderful, particularly fantasy league!
One idea we did come with was "a night at the races" (Australians are mad punters). You get an old race meet on a projector, set up a bookies board, rename the horses to whatever you want, names that take the piss out of your players work well. You can take it as far as you like...... you can run an audio commentary track for the races and set up form guides in booklets. Sell fake money $10 for $1000 etc, at the end of the night, the 3 with the most money win prizes, club keeps the cash. Basically costs nothing except for the prizes..... As blokes get pissed, they bet more and more.
Some of the ideas in this thread are awesome.... Great work guys!
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Quiz night with fish and chip supper - £10 per head. One of my clubs has taken this to such an epic scale the quizmaster has to run between 2 different rooms! Get 50 people in each room as well. Throw in a raffle and your laughing.
Race Nights seem to go pretty well. Again you need plenty of people to do it.
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Is it just me, or does this seem a bit cheap? I mean the presentation dinner alone is going to generate a fair whack of revenue for the hotel alone, never mind the other advertising. But then again it's how desperate you were for sponsorship revenue.
well, they will have a dinner regardless, so if they can make something in a quid pro quo for it, why not?
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I'm thinking £20 for an hour with 20 balls per machine. You pay £20 deposit for the balls which is refundable on the return.
Opinions?
(It's aim would be for me to get my money back on the outlay of the machines etc BUT once it's paid for itself the profit would go to the club as a 'donation' per year so it's fundraising.. not me money making (although it's tempting to do that :) )
Think £20 an hour might be a bit optimistic. Our local place charges £5
Also maybe check out this website, company hires them out nationally http://www.icecrickethire.co.uk/bola.html (http://www.icecrickethire.co.uk/bola.html)
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Think £20 an hour might be a bit optimistic. Our local place charges £5
well if others charge £5 then so be it. £4/5 it is.. I think I'll have a look at the cost for insurance and what the indoor centre would want out of it. Still might be worth doing as a long term thing.
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Where I've been netting recently use of a bowling machine is included in the price of net/hall hire
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well, they will have a dinner regardless, so if they can make something in a quid pro quo for it, why not?
If they get the dinner for free, they could still look at the possibility at charging for it and raise money that way?
In the past we've looked at holding a 'Casino Night'?
Just found this, not sure if it's any helpful
http://static.ecb.co.uk/files/fundraising-guide-for-cricket-clubs-11600.pdf
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Really interesting topic and something I was going to start.
I play for a club that has both the benefit and drawback of being based in a National trust park. we have 2 grounds - 1 of which we self funded and established 4 seasons ago for our 3rd and 4th teams & junior training (due to the nature of the national trust and lack of funds we built giant sunhouses laid on recycled sleepers as changing rooms and a tea room which has electricity and water). The main ground has been used since the 1800's and as such the pavilion is a thatched wooden building, and whilst iconic as a landmark being a registered building we cannot extend nor bring it up to modern requirements of a club with 4 Saturday teams and a whole host of junior sides (I.e basic amenitues such as showers, electricity supply to the kitchen, lighting etc).
So we are embarking on a ambitious project for a new pavilion - again needing planning consent from English heritage, national trust and the local council the structure has numerous criteria to meet (which of couse drives the cost up). Having commissioned a architect and planning to go through planning consent over the next 6 months we are in the process of planning numerous fundraising activities as we need to raise roughly half of the build costs.
We are already doing some of the already mentioned schemes (but will certainly make a note of some of the other ideas :))+ the likes of 6 a side/ T20 competition, sponsor a brick. Has anyone been through something similar and have any suggestions / recommendations for fundraising?
Thanks!!!!
Where do you play - is it Clumber?
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Where do you play - is it Clumber?
Yes mate good guess
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Where I've been netting recently use of a bowling machine is included in the price of net/hall hire
Yes, if an area has the options around I don't think it's viable but Chelt/Gloucester has nothing. No one does machine hire and nowhere as both lanes and machines so I'm thinking it's a gap in the market currently. Yes some clubs will have their own but will they be bothered to take it to the indoor place, cart it down the steps (it's not taht easy to get a machine to!) every single time they net. It was just a thought. In the future hopefully some new person will arrive with indoor lanes AND machines available for cheap. Currently however, there isn't any.
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Just had a thought, with cricket grounds being relatively large, has anyone thought about trying to rent the ground out to concert organisers/promoters and allow them to host an outdoor concert? I'm sure that wooden floor boards to protect the pitch won't be too hard to arrange, and then you've got the bar takings on top of the fee the promoters pay you?
Just a thought
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works in more 'villagey' settings but Beer festivals? Just run one over a weekend (when there is also cricket one etc) and incorporate a BBQ and maybe some evening entertainment (Race night, Casino, Quiz) or something.
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One of our big things for this year is renting the clubhouse out during weekdays. We have a large tea room and a bar area, plus 5 changing rooms. We are looking at offering the tea room to groups, such as kids clubs and weight watchers. There seems to be a lot of options about. We are also looking at the elderly generation and perhaps putting on tea and biscuit days where they can come and socialise.
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One of our big things for this year is renting the clubhouse out during weekdays. We have a large tea room and a bar area, plus 5 changing rooms. We are looking at offering the tea room to groups, such as kids clubs and weight watchers. There seems to be a lot of options about. We are also looking at the elderly generation and perhaps putting on tea and biscuit days where they can come and socialise.
Have you thought about maybe installing a drop down projector screen and hosting business conferences?
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I saw a club in Stroud I think it was who's clubhouse was a nursery during the week. I thought that was a really good idea as it's got to bring in plenty of money if all your paying for is wages, insurance, toys.
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Have you thought about maybe installing a drop down projector screen and hosting business conferences?
We already have a large projector and screen for showing sports. Will deffo look into business use.
Thanks for the tip.
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I saw a club in Stroud I think it was who's clubhouse was a nursery during the week. I thought that was a really good idea as it's got to bring in plenty of money if all your paying for is wages, insurance, toys.
If you have a function room, I believe you have a major advantage in creating additional revenue. I think as a focus club, we have to 'donate' so many hours a year to the local community and we do this through giving the room to local groups. But if you can find a use during weekday afternoons/evenings then it's going to bring in a steady stream of income.
I think a few years ago The Prince's Trust approached my club to use the pavilion as a base during the week, £80 a day with very little extra expenditure on the club's behalf. But they said no to it because they would have to move the "Tuesday Afternoon bowlers".
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What about cricket training courses. I know there a lot of football stuff run in the school holidays where basically the parents pay someone to kid sit (only they call it football training) for the week (or a few days etc).
Maybe a club could look to do something like that. Maybe run 'cricket days' when people can send the little darlings for the day/days/week and just spend the week doing cricket stuff. I'm sure people could each spare 1 day or something to help out, spread it around and you'd have the courses covered.
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What about cricket training courses. I know there a lot of football stuff run in the school holidays where basically the parents pay someone to kid sit (only they call it football training) for the week (or a few days etc).
Maybe a club could look to do something like that. Maybe run 'cricket days' when people can send the little darlings for the day/days/week and just spend the week doing cricket stuff. I'm sure people could each spare 1 day or something to help out, spread it around and you'd have the courses covered.
We run one, but it's not used as a fundraising tool. All the money raised gets given to the professional and the coaches as a 'thank you'
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Our club have done a coaching course during the summer and to be honest it's not a real money maker for the club. Once everything has been factored in, like paying coaches etc, there isn't really much money to be made. However the Kids love it and helps keep them for the next few years!
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Hi everyone, I have just taken over this role at my cricket club, and this thread is really good. This is what we are aiming to do/are doing...
We already have a boxing day cricket match, it has just had its 50th anniversary game which we won :) We produce an A5 programme and sell advertising space to local businesses at £50 for half page etc. We then sell the programmes at £1.50 each. Both clubs involved look to make at least £1,500 profit for the event, with the host team making money over the bar.
We also have a number of advertising boards around the boundary which we look to earn £100 a year, and match ball sponsors, it has all been a bit hap hazard, with some sponsors not even getting an invoice!
What we are aiming for is a sponsorship package at a slightly reduced amount.
Board £100
Boxing Day ad £50
Ball Sponsor £50
or all 3 for £175
We are really going to make a big effort to make sure that our sponsors are supported, through tweeting their messages, encouraging all our members and contacts to use them, some businesses are easier to recommend such as a really good local pub, but we will make it clear to all sponsors that we are trying to help them.
The target is to get to 20 boards, 20 adverts (we had 18 this year), and 20 ball sponsors earning something between £3,500 and £4,000 per year.
We are also in need of a new shirt sponsor, as the old shirts are well simply old, but the business is no longer owned by the same people. I have no idea how much to ask for, and it would be nice to get a commitment for a couple of years.
Whilst it is such an open question, has anyone got an idea how much a village club should ask for, we have 3 adult teams and currently 2 juniors.
thanks
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it's really what sponsors and players can afford. If you have buy in from the club members to buy their own shirt, then anything from £100 upwards as the cost is covered. If you are planning to give the shirts away and the sponsor pays the cost then it's £20 per player roughly. Assume 16 regular players per team (I know you get more occasional players with 2nd/3rd XI but I did say regular) and it's 16 * 3 * £20 = £960 of cost for adults alone. I've known sponsors offer £2k for a small logo and others offer £300 max, you can only be flexible as any money is good money.
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Hi everyone, I have just taken over this role at my cricket club, and this thread is really good. This is what we are aiming to do/are doing...
We already have a boxing day cricket match, it has just had its 50th anniversary game which we won :) We produce an A5 programme and sell advertising space to local businesses at £50 for half page etc. We then sell the programmes at £1.50 each. Both clubs involved look to make at least £1,500 profit for the event, with the host team making money over the bar.
We also have a number of advertising boards around the boundary which we look to earn £100 a year, and match ball sponsors, it has all been a bit hap hazard, with some sponsors not even getting an invoice!
What we are aiming for is a sponsorship package at a slightly reduced amount.
Board £100
Boxing Day ad £50
Ball Sponsor £50
or all 3 for £175
We are really going to make a big effort to make sure that our sponsors are supported, through tweeting their messages, encouraging all our members and contacts to use them, some businesses are easier to recommend such as a really good local pub, but we will make it clear to all sponsors that we are trying to help them.
The target is to get to 20 boards, 20 adverts (we had 18 this year), and 20 ball sponsors earning something between £3,500 and £4,000 per year.
We are also in need of a new shirt sponsor, as the old shirts are well simply old, but the business is no longer owned by the same people. I have no idea how much to ask for, and it would be nice to get a commitment for a couple of years.
Whilst it is such an open question, has anyone got an idea how much a village club should ask for, we have 3 adult teams and currently 2 juniors.
thanks
We have a long standing relationship with a local brewery who sponsor the club and give the club a 'generous' amount and in return all they want is that we buy our beer off them.
If you have a bar, have you thought of approaching local breweries?
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http://www.pimpmystumps.co.uk/ (http://www.pimpmystumps.co.uk/)
and we did
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Leeds Brewery Head Brewer - Venks (as seen on Jamie Oliver) sticking the stumps in
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We did it as part of a combined website, bat sticker package for them over 3 years - £375.
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UkSaunders noticed pimpmystumps on twitter, do you mind me asking how much roughly it costs?
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around a £100
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Take it that includes the stumps?
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yes. We all know a decent set of stumps cost around £30, so the other £70 is design, printing, painting bails and not least postage. I'm sure it could be done cheaper but not without a bit of time and effort.
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Think its a reasonable cost. The vinyl wrap probably adds strength to the stumps aswell. Am liking the white. Wasn't to keen on some of the examples on their website.
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they have an offer on to reduce it by £30 if you use their online designer. ive just done that expecting to get a quote minus the £30 and to go through to a check out process and it just says thanks for your order. will be in touch! lol. didnt actually want to order any just yet just wanted an accurate price.
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Briefly mentioned on here was race night, our club does this once a year and it generates a good bit of revenue.
You can hire a guy who already has the races, projector screen and takes the bets etc etc.
We do it as following:
Get individuals to sponsor a horse for say £5, 6 horses in a race = £36/race. (they name the horse, the winning horse 'owner' gets a cheap bottle of bubbly.
Get a company to sponsor the race for £50.
We split the race takings 50/50 with the "racetrak man" after payouts, which are managed as a percentage of bets received, and then split between those who had the winning horse.
Bets are placed before the video is selected, this gets around gambling licences. There are no odds, so people place a bet based on the horse name.
Plus takings at the bar it's a fun evening, ticket funds you can raise £1k having a great time.
I have an old racecard at home if someone wanted an example of this.
N.B. This is a great fundraising day for the club, which only has the 1 senior sunday team.
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Briefly mentioned on here was race night, our club does this once a year and it generates a good bit of revenue.
You can hire a guy who already has the races, projector screen and takes the bets etc etc.
We do it as following:
Get individuals to sponsor a horse for say £5, 6 horses in a race = £36/race. (they name the horse, the winning horse 'owner' gets a cheap bottle of bubbly.
Get a company to sponsor the race for £50.
We split the race takings 50/50 with the "racetrak man" after payouts, which are managed as a percentage of bets received, and then split between those who had the winning horse.
Bets are placed before the video is selected, this gets around gambling licences. There are no odds, so people place a bet based on the horse name.
Plus takings at the bar it's a fun evening, ticket funds you can raise £1k having a great time.
I have an old racecard at home if someone wanted an example of this.
N.B. This is a great fundraising day for the club, which only has the 1 senior sunday team.
All you need to add is a BBQ
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Just to add on the race night theme, it's pretty easy to do it all yourselves and keep all the profits rather than paying a cut to an outsider. Just take shaving a couple of people willing to run it rather than join in
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Yes, defo cut out the 'raceman' as he's stealing half your profits!! DIY all the way!
Here is a DIY kit available
http://www.racenightservices.co.uk/Home (http://www.racenightservices.co.uk/Home)