BIG DOLLAR VALUES OR REQUIRE COMMITTEE TIME
Community Trusts
E.g. Community Trust of Wellington
Gaming Trusts
E.g. NZ Community Trust, Lion Foundation
Local Council grant schemes
Tournaments
E.g. invite teams/clubs from out of your region
Contra/ exchange of services
E.g. free van hire in exchange for pamphlet drop or washing vehicles
Hire venue out for functions
E.g. member birthdays, reunions, weddings
Orix car leasing cash backs
See www.cmsport.co.nz/club-offers
Effective financial management
Ensuring money is well managed will help save money E.g. Xero, Club Manager, MYOB
Advertising space
E.g. sell sign space at club venue / name lounge
Facility Sharing
E.g. hire your venue to a hobby group who meet regularly (e.g. cards groups)
Business House Leagues / Social Leagues
May need to alter sports’ rules etc. for shorter, easier, mid-week games
Benefactors/ bequests
Club fundraising calendar / diaries / wall planners
Include club events, registrations etc. plus it creates a “hook” for next year
Investments
E.g. secured savings accounts
Club Number Plate Frames
www.autographics.co.nz ($25 each or $4.50 if order 50+)
Debentures
Selling shares in the club’s assets
Charity status
Benefits include tax exemption www.charities.govt.nz
EFTPOS
Team up with a large retail store and encourage customers to add $1 to every EFTPOS transaction
“Seriously Good Guide to Fundraising”
Advice, ideas and templates for just $15 from www.exult.co.nz/index.php?page=seriously
Membership Fees
Include a variety of memberships including social and lifetime
Donations
From members, ex-members, parents, friends etc. - If you don’t ask, you won’t receive!
Club Handbook
Information on teams, competitions, management etc. – use to promote sponsors & sell advertising space
Sell/ raise stock (rural clubs)
Utilise club contacts
Enlist the services of professional funders
www.fundraisingideas.org.nz/Consultants.aspx
Websites
Use your website to sell advertising space – see www.sportsground.co.nzor www.myclub.co.nz
Ads by Google
Add link to your website to make money every time a user clicks on it –www.google.co.nz
Join Community Rewards
Purchase goods and services from partner businesses to receive rewards for your club
www.communityrewards.co.nz
Sponsored run by athletes or team
Team Sponsorship
To print on team gear etc.
Club Sponsorship
Corporate and local
Individual player sponsorship
Scratchy cards
See www.fastfundraising.co.nzfor details
Donate an hour
Employees donate 1 hours salary a month after Club presentation to company
BiAnnual dinner
Invite (paying) sponsors then add celebrities / Auction
Business directory
See Wellington Hockey
Sell land for a cell / mobile phone site
Buy a Brick
During renovations of buildings, sell bricks using engraving or name plaques
Buy a piece of virtual dirt
Sponsors buy large blocks & sell smaller pixels to members. Cost $100k to set up full website
SPECIAL NIGHTS / EVENTS
Bulk booked activities
Many entertainment providers will give reimbursements for minimum numbers
Virtual sports
Use a league (e.g. Super14, NRL etc), charge entry fee, participants select weekly teams run points ladder, prize money
Host Shopping Nights
E.g. cosmetics, Tupperware etc.
www.tupperware.co.nz, www.marykay.com.au
Karaoke night
Novelty shows
E.g. host a hypnotist at clubrooms
Coffee Evening
Coffee related demo, at home or at café
Mystery Dinner
Announce venue (someone’s house) at 5pm
Charge $30/head, great way to learn about your members as well!
Retail shop
Ladies night at mega store selling appliances
Time capsules
During reunion or new building
Boat Trip
Charter a boat and sell tickets
Family Sports Days
Demonstration Events
Learn something new-crafts, cooking, technology
Movie nights
Some cinemas do fundraising early screenings of movies, or can replay old classics
Themed club functions
E.g. Christmas, 70s, Pirates etc
Sports evenings on big screen
E.g. NZ matches, international events
Player auctions
Work themed ‘mufti’ days
E.g. Hawaiian theme day at members’ workplace – charge a gold coin donation
Casino Night
Daisy Dung drop!
Mark field into squares and sell squares. Release cow into field and the ‘owner’ of the square the cow ‘deposits’ in, is the winner.
Guy Fawkes Night
Small charge for entry, with meals, raffles, BBQ, fireworks display or safe fireworks area, bonfire etc
Discos
Target specific groups (e.g. juniors)
Wine Tour
Organise a wine tour and charge extra (e.g. $10pp) as profit – good club social event
World Record Attempts
Gold coin donation to take part
Host 24 hour events
e.g. 24 hours of tennis and get individual sponsorship for event
Horse Racing Nights
Celebrity events
Use club contacts, your RSO etc. to access local sporting celebrities or other celebrities
Quiz/ Trivia nights
Guest speaker evening
Charity shave / haircut etc.
Sponsorship for club member to shave hair, grow beard etc.
Amazing Race / Scavenger Hunt
Charge a nominal entry fee
Team/ Club / Facility Naming rights
Newsletters
Use these as advertising space and to acknowledge sponsors
Club Ball / Sportsman Dinner
Charity golf tournament (or any other sport)
Hosting an ‘…athon’
E.g. goal-athon, kick-athon, walkathon, swim-athon, bike-athon etc. (goodfor juniors)
"Big Bite”
A Zoo hosted a feed the animals night for VIP’s but the actual “bite” was asking them for $
SELLING
Raffle tickets
Buy products to raffle or get donations
For prizes over $500, see regulations set out at www.dia.govt.nz
Weekly lotto ‘bonus ball’ draw
E.g. Sell 40 numbers / week at $5 / number with $100 prize money and keep profit
Sports team photography
Club arrangement with photographer to keep small profit from every photo sold
Sell family portraits
Gift Baskets
Pizzas
Special Olympics club in Auckland did deal with Pizza place
Sell sunscreen at events
Club retains 40% of sales, free delivery and returns allowed www.cancernz.org.nz/products
Quick Fire Raffle
On the spot with instant result
Swear boxes
In the clubrooms and/or members to take to their workplaces (BUT check if this is a good “fit” for your club!)
Late collection box
For people that turn up late for meetings or practises. In the clubrooms and/or members to take them to their workplaces
Fines for members
Bowling with wrong bias, double faults in Tennis, bogey in Golf etc
First Aid Kits
Buy containers & items in bulk then sell
Hangi sales
At events / fixtures or pre-order sales and deliver
Car Boot Sales / Markets / Swap meets
E.g. set up stalls at markets
Club novelties for sale
E.g. keyrings, bumper stickers, cups etc.
Sell sweets in your community
Sell Entertainment Books
“Batons Up” Raffles
1st drawn number gets 1st pick of prize
Sell 2nd hand sports equipment
Gala days / fairs
Have side-shows and stalls to make money
E.g. coconut shy, ring toss, cake stall
Club merchandise for sale
E.g. beanies, tracksuits, sports bags etc.
Food and beverage sales at clubroom
If clubroom available
Food and beverage sales at event
E.g. coffee cart, sausage sizzle or food stalls on sports field
Selling chocolates or other foodstuffs
See www.houseoffundraising.co.nz
Trademe
Use the website to sell club merchandise or general fundraising –www.trademe.co.nz
Garage sales
Combine several garage sales to make a mega-sale!
“Open” Days
Open homes, Open gardens
Wine Selling
Sell a case of wine and receive $40 http://www.sileni.co.nz/wine-fundraisers.asp
VOLUNTEER PROJECTS
Babysitting service
Club members babysit and donate their payment to the club
Working gangs
Employment for groups who want to fundraise
e.g. www.alliedmovers.co.nzor chop and sell firewood
Carwash
Fruit-picking
Sell fruit at workplaces, club, roadside etc
Metal recycling
Metal merchants will pay for all sorts of scrap including aluminium, copper, brass, lead, batteries, electrical cable, steel, stainless steel, roofing iron, radiators and machinery
Collecting aluminium cans
Sell cans to local scrap dealers
Community Sausage sizzle
E.g. Warehouse, Mad Butcher, Bunnings
Working bees
Advertise in your local community
E.g. Haymaking gangs (rural clubs)
Envelope stuffing / folding
Often local businesses require this
Pamphlet dropping for a local business
Collection buckets
At events, shops and bars – confirm arrangement with owner/organiser first
Christmas wrapping at shopping centres
Christmas period
Cards, Trees, Carols
Delivering Phone Directories
Stocktaking
Contact local supermarkets / warehouses etc. who need stocktaking
Event volunteering
E.g. parking attendants, programme sales
Contact Council, RSO and Event Venues
Security work
Westpac Stadium http://www.redbadge.co.nz/
Use student services to gain discounts
E.g. student physiotherapists, student photographers etc.
Think outside the square!
There are endless ways of making money for your club if you are prepared to think outside the square and do something different. Look at other industries like the Arts
Select carefully!
Choose and focus on a very small number of options per year. Think about the resources (people, time & energy) that you actually have. Is it an annual activity? (i.e. create a “hook” for next year)
Partnerships
Get in to bed and piggy back with a complementary group, share profit, e.g. children free with adult, approach local restaurants
USEFUL WEBSITES
http://www.sparc.org.nz/sport/running-your-club/running-your-club/raising-funds
http://www.foresee.co.nz/index.php
http://www.fundraisingideas.org.nz/
http://www.wellington.govt.nz/services/grants/othergrants/othergrants.html
FROM Sport Wellington