Club fundraising

[Guest]

My club has been losing money the past few years and there has been no fundraising. We need to change that and that is one of my aims this current season. I'd be interested to know the most successful way club's have raised money.

[Guest stevie-b]

our funds were down for a couple of years we have just had a raffel and raised over £700 its quite easy to organise

[Tony C]

We done a couple of race nights last year, worked out well.

[Guest]

one little thing we do on a friday alan is run a minute nom. You guess what minute the race will be won on. At 50p a guess we take in £30. Give £20 prize every week and with £10 every week spare we make £210 every season towards the club.

 

You could make it £1 a guess or give less prize money but every little helps.

 

We have a futurity squeaker sale in april where we give  60% of funds going to the prize (50/50 Breeder/Buyer) and 40% to the club - thats another nice little earner. We normally fly for the prize on the last youngbird race.

 

We have a raffle for a joint of meat every friday aswell.

 

 

Hope that helps

[Guest]

Darren, the minute sounds good, Stevie B what prizes do you provide to get 700 quid and how big a 'market' do you have to sell to?

[Guest]

Tony was the race night ópen'or confined to club? Where did you run it?

Thanks

Alan

[Tony C]

Tony was the race night ópen'or confined to club? Where did you run it?

Thanks

Alan

 

We run it from a local tenants association club (no charge for hall). Family, friends, neighbors made up most of the numbers. We knocked up some tickets and charged £2.50 each entrance, this was mainly to give us some idea of how many people were going to attend plus covering the cost for the hire of the DVD & race tote tickets. I think the charge for these was in the £70 region, not 100% sure on that though.

 

Can get you more info if you wish.

Tony

[Wiley]

one little thing we do on a friday alan is run a minute nom. You guess what minute the race will be won on. At 50p a guess we take in ?30. Give ?20 prize every week and with ?10 every week spare we make ?210 every season towards the club.

 

You could make it ?1 a guess or give less prize money but every little helps.

 

We have a futurity squeaker sale in april where we give  60% of funds going to the prize (50/50 Breeder/Buyer) and 40% to the club - thats another nice little earner. We normally fly for the prize on the last youngbird race.

 

We have a raffle for a joint of meat every friday aswell.

 

 

Hope that helps

 

 

do you guess the minute by the clock, or by the flying time?As not sure as your never certain what time birds get lib at?

[Guest]

Thanks Tony, very helpful,we may be moving our HQ 10 mile, so I'm not sure yet what would be available to us.

Darren did the majority of the money you earned in the furtuity come from a few in demand lofts or was it well balanced across all. I'm concerned that three of our members who have finished in the first 10 open NFC will carry the burden.

[westburylofts]

Hi Mate

 

Our club runs the footie type cards on a 50  50 basis

is a nice little earner for the club.

 

think you can buy the cards at blackpool

 

ray

[hazz2000]

In our club we pay the the fundraisers 10%, they do the bonusball, £30 to the winner and £19 to the club and they do a football card as well.

[Ian McKay]

What is fundraising?? I thought this was extinct??????

[Guest]

 

 

do you guess the minute by the clock, or by the flying time?As not sure as your never certain what time birds get lib at?

 

Wiley it is basically the minute the winner clocked in, so 10.06am and number 6 takes the money.

[Marky5]

Try to organise a Gold ring race , say £5 or £10 per ring , prize money to be divided between winning members and club.

[Guest]

Thanks Tony, very helpful,we may be moving our HQ 10 mile, so I'm not sure yet what would be available to us.

Darren did the majority of the money you earned in the furtuity come from a few in demand lofts or was it well balanced across all. I'm concerned that three of our members who have finished in the first 10 open NFC will carry the burden.

 

Basically Alan everyone in the club is asked to donate. They don't all do it always get one or two tight ones lol  .

 

Some people put in and buy their own back so they have a chance for both the breeder and buyer prize so basically can win it all.

 

Others buy the pigeons they fancy and some just donate youngsters.

 

Year before we had some birds from fanciers of the south coast and I bought one of them. Upshot was I won the race so took the buyers prize and the guy in brighton got the breeders prize.

 

Some people like to donate the birds just to be in with a shout at some money. As you see it paid off for this guy.

 

Last year I couldn't make the sale so told them I would donate 2 youngsters from the stock loft. The guy who bought mine won and I got the breeders prize so you don't have to be in the race to win just have someone else flying your bird.

 

Year before that a guy bought his back and won it so took all the prize money.

 

It does generate a lot of interest even outside the club.

 

Last year we took £900+ so take the 60% for prize money which totalled £540 split £270 each, the club was left £360 funds for holding the sale on club night.

That was about £25 - £30 average price for a pigeon. Some went for more some for less.

 

 

[Guest]

Marky we also do a gold ring race but don't sell rings - it's more a ring nom.

All members pay £2.50 each to nominate a ring up to a maximum of 4 each. The ring numbers to be with the secretary before the last old bird race.

 

Then the 1st ring number clocked on the nominated race wins the money, leaving a percentage for the club. We do this on the week before the futurity race so it spreads the interest out.

[sj irving jnr]

in our club we have a bottle draw which is 20p a square(40 numers on a sheet),members get 6 sheets each to try and sell we have 13 members in our club and it raised 700 pounds this year.

  we have run this for a long time,and if it was not for this the club would struggle.

[Guest]

Thanks lads and lasses,.......... has any one tried running a tote available to all and sundry? i.e. there is a list of say 150 birds at say 25p a throw and you can choose your bird, it rolls over until someone one week picks the winning ring .......obviously a percentage goes to the club.

[Diamond dave]

We also have a breeder/buyer competition but it runs throughout the young bird season, winning points for each race. It's a bit more work but it provides a great opportunity for some healthy banter. The club takes 40% which is usually about £250.

Albear, you didnt say what sort of money you are losing? It's all well and good all these suggestions but you have to have people in the club willing to put a bit of work in.

Also, if a club is to be successful, it has to be run more or less as a  business - the books have to balance, I was just wondering if your birdage prices are realistic and how much prize money you paid out, you may have to consider increasing one and decreasing the other.

[westy]

in our club we have a raffle card with 40 numbers on you pay 25p a number then they will draw it out and you win 5.00  plus the remaining money goes to the club they normally get through 2 cards evrey time we go down the club i have won it once since ive been there. also someone sugeested that the club buys a bag of corn a week and if you want to win it you pay a 1.00 to be entered then it is drawn out and you win the corn.

[Ronnie]

In this day and age you culd also have an EBAY sale.Get people to donate what ever pigeon stuff they dont want old water drinkers and the like clean them up and get someone to put them on ebay all profit to the club.