How do you go about finding sponsors, and any good tips on raising funds.
I've started playing for Meopham reserves and we need to bolster our funds. There's pitch hire to be paid and we could really do with a new kit.
We're organising a couple of fund raising evenings, but I thought I ask if anybody had any ideas.
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The pitch hire should be paid by the players subs. I remember collecting 15-20 quid off each player at the start and then 3 pound a game.
Good luck mate, but what the fella above said is probably your best bet, get in the faces of local pubs who don't have a team too. Landlords like the idea of 15 odd thirsty people in first thing on a Sunday.
Ultimately you are relying on charity, unless one of the players/parents of a player has a business and doesn't mind chucking a few quid your way then you are going to be stuck.
Find a pub and ask for sponsorship and in return make it your post-match local and promise to hold your AGM etc there/co-organise a darts night etc, that way the publican can be sure of seeing some return. You'll go for a beer somewhere so it's money you will spend anyway.
My team did it with the Rose in Bexleyheath, he now has team photo's on the wall and we seem to get more 'free food' come out each week and passed round.
Think he bought our kit and it has the pub name/logo accross the front.
We charge £25 signing on fee at the start of the season and £7 per (full) game and always seem to have money in the kitty to pay for a curry at xmas and an end of season drink.
When I was involved with the Charlton Liberal club, we asked one of our main entertainment agencies to sponsor us, we supplied them with a framed shirt for their office wall in return etc (apart from their name being displayed against mostly pub teams who use entertainment agencies for their acts of course)
Agree with above that a Race night is a fab way of raising cash. Football cards & subs every Sunday all help, signing on fees are a must at the start of the season from everyone.
Remember above all if you don't ask you don't get. It's Always worth a punt asking.
Race night is a good idea, I'll propose that as part of our end of season bash (we've got a christmas bash organsied for december at meopham cc, then we're trying to arrange a quiz night for feb to raise some funds).
Unfortunately many businesses simply can't afford to put their hands in their pockets at the moment. The other issue is that in gravesend the pitch fees have to be paid for upfront, meaning somebody has to put their hand in their pockets for a large sum of money, which is probably one of the main reasons so many teams are dropping out of the league down here. Our club secretary has been talking to the local mp, seems stupid government have all these schemes to encourage people to exercise, but council policy is actively stopping the same from happening with regard to football.
Race nights (I think an amount of the money went to charity too)
Casino nights (as above)
Bus stops (the scratch cards)
Subs (£7 is a hell of a lot we used to pay about £3)
Signing on fee should cover the insurance and the pitch fee's, no pay no play
Doing a calender, now this is piss easy to do if you know someone who can print the things. Someone who knows what they are doing with a camera helps but it's not essential. The trick is to have people to sell calenders of you lot in various states of comedic undress.
Getting stuff like mugs, t-shirts etc done is also one to think of if you have someone who can do it on the squeak. We did car stickers and sold them for £2 each the bloke who done them was a printer and did hundreds of them for sod all.
That is the key to it, without doubt. If one or two get away with not paying then everybody starts taking the piss.
At my old club it did not matter if you were the best player in the joint, if you had not paid your sign-on fee then you did not play, they actually played short on several occasions rather than play the welchers.