Hey lads, my club has been using sports prophet the last two years to fundraise, and have done very well out of it. Does anybody know of any other good fundraising ideas for clubs besided the usual race nights and table quizes?

noelf7 (Cork) - Posts: 5 - 15/02/2012 10:03:57    1111908

The Newtownblues club in Drogheda for the last few years have done a sponser cycle. Its proving to be very popular.

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 15/02/2012 10:51:24    1111963

The Boxing does be good.I see some clubs doing "take me out", apparently becoming very popular.
However, Iv said this before but I think there are two great ideas of tv shows on UTV and Channel 4 at the weekends. The Cube and Million pound drop. I think both would be very easy to run and all you have to do is change the amount you win. some of the games in The Cube are handy to set up,and you can throw in a hard one at the end so someone doesnt win. Similerly with the Million pound drop, change the name to the thousand euro drop, do great advertising for it. Have 4/5 couples on during the night and make the last few questions hard. And Bobs your aunties illicit lover.

Rhodejim (Offaly) - Posts: 2888 - 15/02/2012 11:03:10    1111974

What type of money does the sponsored cycle usually generate Ollie?

noelf7 (Cork) - Posts: 5 - 15/02/2012 16:34:47    1112366

Im not too sure because im not in the club. But if you could get around 50 people and each raise €200- €300 your looking at €10,000-€15,000.

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 15/02/2012 16:40:40    1112376

The big one down our way seems to be boxing nights. Get a local venue free of charge or fairly cheap (they will clean up on drink sales). get 2 local clubs to get 2 teams and charge €20 for the privilege of a night at the ringside. I think Carnew and Craanford did it and made a fortune. I'd say it'll work for 1-2 times but then people will lose interest.

Pinkie (Wexford) - Posts: 4100 - 15/02/2012 16:40:56    1112377

Who wants to be a thousandaire, a guy in a nearby parish set up a company running them a good few years ago after seeing how successfull the thousandaire he ran for a local primary school was
pallas marketing is the name of the company

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 15/02/2012 17:23:58    1112425

Noel
Two Down clubs that I know off are running strictly come dancing style functions that apparently do very well. The clubs are Loughinisland (www.loughinislandgac.net/) and Drumaness (http://drumaness.down.gaa.ie/) and Im sure if you contact them they will give you more info. Good luck

ballybannongael (Down) - Posts: 547 - 17/02/2012 08:45:38    1113327

What proportion of club players actually pay their annual subs. Might be a better idea than milking the local community all the time

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 17/02/2012 12:45:00    1113535

Ours is €100. Hardly "milking the community" as you suggest.

perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 17/02/2012 15:54:00    1113735

perfect10
County: Wexford
Posts: 268

1113735 Ours is €100. Hardly "milking the community" as you suggest.

Thats my point. But does every member pay it, if they do, your club is at odds with the few I'm aware of.

my point was that clubs should get the members, especially the players, to cough up before going to the local community when there are so many others tapping the same people all the time

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 17/02/2012 16:07:03    1113748

Maybe more a rural thing but big money to be made on steel at the minute. I heard of some organisations having steel collections. Loads of it knocking around farm yards, garages, factories, building sites etc. Could be delivered to a collections point or collection arranged.

xxx (Mayo) - Posts: 1275 - 17/02/2012 17:34:55    1113812

Strictly come dance very popular up my way.. lot of people doing it, clubs and other organisations. scrap metal collections is another one. stars in their eyes, take me out.. any of those kinda nights out ! Family fun day at the club grounds ?

up_donegal (Donegal) - Posts: 659 - 17/02/2012 17:48:56    1113824

dhorse you cant actually be a member unless you pay your subs or did you not know that

jape (Carlow) - Posts: 22 - 17/02/2012 19:09:16    1113860

jape
County: Carlow
Posts: 16

1113860 dhorse you cant actually be a member unless you pay your subs or did you not know that

In quite a lot of cases players don't "get around" to paying and club registers them for membership and insurance which causes a bit of a deficit on the balance sheet, did you not ever hear of that happening?

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 18/02/2012 15:25:43    1114085

dhorse you said in an eariler post 'does every member pay' sure you cant be a member unless you pay it is simple logic

jape (Carlow) - Posts: 22 - 18/02/2012 16:35:05    1114131

Take me out is huge if you have a good venue with a bar, know of clubs raising 40k plus. Boxing is also a big one. The superbowl boxes is a thing in Ireland which could bring in big money. it is huge in the NY bars so a returned yank can explain the way it works. Each grid is worth 2000 euro, thats 20 euro a square. Give out 300 for half time score and 700 for full time. That is a 1000 for the club. The great thing is no knowledge of foot ball is required as it is random so everyone has a chance. 5 or 6 clubmen could sell out a grid each bringing in 5-6k.

bananapublican (Leitrim) - Posts: 878 - 18/02/2012 19:24:21    1114238

jape
County: Carlow
Posts: 18

1114131 dhorse you said in an eariler post 'does every member pay' sure you cant be a member unless you pay it is simple logic

You can if somebody else pays for you, even simpler, and more to the point , playing members not contributing to club funds is an issue with a lot of clubs

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 18/02/2012 19:29:19    1114241