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General Cricket => Cricket Admin, Facilities and Fundraising => Fundraising => Topic started by: Woodyspin on November 20, 2016, 06:18:56 PM

Title: Just Giving
Post by: Woodyspin on November 20, 2016, 06:18:56 PM
Long shot i know but my club is in desperate need of new nets as ours are becoming too dangerous!

www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/forestrow-cricketclub (http://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/forestrow-cricketclub)

even £1 would help!

Thanks in advance
Title: Re: Just Giving
Post by: Ayrtek Cricket on November 20, 2016, 06:29:36 PM
Have You looked into ECB grants/funding as this is where we got a fair chunk of ours from?
Title: Re: Just Giving
Post by: Woodyspin on November 20, 2016, 06:38:53 PM
Have You looked into ECB grants/funding as this is where we got a fair chunk of ours from?

I'm sure our grants officer has already but we still need alot to get matched, and some require clubmark which we are working towards too!
Title: Re: Just Giving
Post by: jamielsn15 on November 20, 2016, 08:38:13 PM
FYI just giving take a cut whereas Virgin do not...
Title: Re: Just Giving
Post by: Manormanic on November 20, 2016, 08:42:02 PM
FYI just giving take a cut whereas Virgin do not...

which is absolutely disgraceful!
Title: Re: Just Giving
Post by: Ayrtek Cricket on November 20, 2016, 09:18:16 PM
#JustTaking
Title: Re: Just Giving
Post by: Woodyspin on November 20, 2016, 10:47:40 PM
FYI just giving take a cut whereas Virgin do not...

From what ive read they just charge the donator?
Title: Re: Just Giving
Post by: jamielsn15 on November 21, 2016, 07:12:23 AM
From what ive read they just charge the donator?

They do, a percentage of every donation, that's taking a cut in my book!
Title: Re: Just Giving
Post by: Seniorplayer on November 21, 2016, 10:22:42 AM
  as treasurer i obtained 50k from sport England  for  club facilities changing rooms perimeter fence ground equipment etc the whole process from application to getting approval took 4 Weeks followed by a further  12 weeks to get quotes in.
Maybe worth a try.
Title: Re: Just Giving
Post by: WalkingWicket37 on November 21, 2016, 10:44:56 AM
  as treasurer i obtained 50k from sport England  for  club facilities changing rooms perimeter fence ground equipment etc the whole process from application to getting approval took 4 Weeks followed by a further  12 weeks to get quotes in.
Maybe worth a try.

This!
Might be worth looking into what grants are available, through Sport England, the ECB & The National Lottery. It might come to nothing, but it can't hurt to look into these options, can it?
Title: Re: Just Giving
Post by: ajnabi02 on November 21, 2016, 11:17:30 AM
Good luck @Woodyspin
Title: Re: Just Giving
Post by: Woodyspin on November 21, 2016, 01:05:52 PM
Cheers, not sure we will get much more from them as they built our pavilion pretty much 😂 im sure our grants man will find something!
Title: Re: Just Giving
Post by: Calzehbhoy on November 21, 2016, 01:08:55 PM
Just a suggestion @Woodyspin , why not do an online raffle for a top of the range sponsors bat? £5 a ticket and all the profit goes to the club? I'd certainly buy a few tickets if I knew there was a chance of winning a bat.
Title: Re: Just Giving
Post by: Woodyspin on November 21, 2016, 01:16:03 PM
We could always do this again although last time it was only offered to the club, might be worth talking to the committee about investing. We did raise £300 i think it was with a @Dunamis Cricket bat :)
Title: Re: Just Giving
Post by: jamielsn15 on November 21, 2016, 09:30:07 PM
@Woodyspin pm me your email address mate, I'll send you some of our possible funding links. May also have a fund available soon in line with our sports club ground protection programmes
Title: Re: Just Giving
Post by: JK Lewis on November 23, 2016, 09:51:56 PM
It won't help you immediately, but this autumn I managed to get our club accepted onto the Tesco 'Bags of Help' programme, which recycles all the 5p's you pay for plastic bags into grant funding for community organisations. There will likely be another round in the spring. It takes a while, and you need to make a good pitch to get selected, but the 3 groups chosen get 8k, 10k or 12k grant. We focused on various ground improvements, benefitting the local community and our Junior section, as well as the club in general.

Link for the scheme below:

http://www.groundwork.org.uk/Sites/tescocommunityscheme (http://www.groundwork.org.uk/Sites/tescocommunityscheme)
Title: Re: Just Giving
Post by: Woodyspin on November 23, 2016, 11:06:58 PM
Thank you! This has been passed on