Hey @mycricketgear - nice idea! Just wondered if you could share how the money raised will be split?
For example on the SS Super Select the raffle totals £3.5k - do you have a fixed split on how the money will be shared? (X% to charity / admin fee / item costs / profit etc?).
I'm sure you'll get some interest off CBF, but I assume some will be hesitant to enter without knowing exactly where the cash is going (We've been burned in the distant past by this sort of thing that's all!!).
Keep up the great work 👍🏻
Thanks for the message. So obviously there are some costs involved, namely the items themselves, the fees that raffall.com take, the shipping costs (worldwide if the winner is overseas).
Raffall.com has some of the charities listed already so we can link them in directly to the raffle, they will receive 25% of all the money raised. If the charity (e.g. Lords Taverners) is not on the list we have made a request to raffall.com to have them added but will still be setting aside the 25% to send to them directly until they are added. After all the costs have been deducted the remaining profit will be sent to the first prize winner’s local club of their choice. Or if they prefer they can choose for it to go to another good cause of their choice.
The amount raised means we can cover costs by including overseas shipping. UK shipping would mean more profit going to the local cricket club portion as the costs to send would be much lower.
One thing we found out since starting is we're only allowed three active raffles running at the same time. So we’re offering to do a free draw of the GM OLE pads with an RRP of £149 next Sunday for anybody that buys a raffle ticket between now and then. Hopefully that means more people will take part. It also means you won’t have to wait for the allocated number of tickets to fill up to be in with a chance of winning the pads.
Feel free to keep asking me more questions and offering advice about how to manage things. On a side note, any recommendations for things we should be buying to review which in turn can be offered for raffles would be great. I’ve currently got my eye on a Laver Signature and maybe some more Oz bats. The stupidly overpriced Shrey helmet is also on the list, I would normally never buy something like this but if the raffling works out I can get it in to review and offload it to someone in a raffle.
One final note. As I’ve mentioned earlier the draw will happen as soon as the quota of tickets is sold (500 in the case of the BS PE bat), but what happens if all the tickets aren’t sold. The draw will still happen regardless of whether we hit that number. If the number of tickets is too small and we can’t cover our costs the bat won’t be sent out, but you will automatically win 75% of all the money collected. For the SS Raffle when fully subscribed it’ll be £3.5k so 75% of tickets sold will probably be worth a lot more than the price of any of the bats. That provision is provided by raffall.com not us. It’s a big reason why we wanted a 3rd party running it and not us, to help provide protection to people buying the tickets. Funds are only released to us once the winner confirms they’ve received their prize.
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