Club Fundrasing

[Michael]

http://www.swimclub.co.uk/ubb/frown.gif Does anyone know of any proven ways of raising club funds? I'll start with the boring ones - Sponsored swim!

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[BigFish]

And I'll continue with an obvious one:
- b grade meets.

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[Steve]

Good idea - there are never enough B (or for that matter A/B) grade open meets and hardly ever any C grade.

As far as fundraising goes - swim shop? Takes some effort but can generate some money


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[Steve]

Also how about sponsorship - kind of relies on having willig parents at the club though. :-(

[This message has been edited by Steve Buckley (edited 07 February 2001).]

[BigFish]

What sort of sponsorship were you thinking of Steve?

I'm assuming you didn't mean the sponsored swim kind, so I'm a little confused at the need for willing parents. I seem to remember our club having corporate sponsorship in the dim and distant past, how difficult is it to attract these days?

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[Steve]

I did mean corporate sponsorship of the club - as far as willing parents go, it usually seems that if a club is sponsored by a company that a parent works for/owns/is MD of it etc. e.g. my club, city of cambridge were (possibly still are) sponsored by a company called Aqua (appropriately enough!) one of the directors of which has a son and daughetr in the national squad.

Undoubtedly there are companies who might sponsor a club without such personal contacts but I suspect that they are few and far between. Another good place to try is the company that runs the pools you train at (if it isn't a local authority). At my old club, just such a company sponsored the annual open meet. Then they became a charity (!) and stopped.

Steve

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[This message has been edited by Steve Buckley (edited 08 February 2001).]

[BigFish]

One of our local championships takes its name from one of Doncaster's biggest businesses. I don't know whether they still sponsor it but the name remains.

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[Carole]

A variation on a theme for sponsored *****'s is to contact the British Olympic Association, 02476 402555, who will send you one of GB's elite swimmers to give your club a training session in return for your club raising a fairly large sum of money which is then split 75% Olympic fund/25% your club. Our club were lucky enough to be sent Suki Brownsden and she was absolutely brilliant. The sponsor forms the Olympic association provide, have "levels" of sponsorship to obtain, which gives each fund raiser the chance to "earn" presents for more people signed up - it may sound mercenary but several of our swimmers managed to raise 100x £1 sponsors. We also contacted a local Cub pack (their night clashes with our training and a lot of our younger swimmers are alternating between the two) and they raised funds to be tested for their cub swimming badges. They were a great bunch of lads, keen, and they only needed one lane of our pool during a normal session to pass their various stages as appropriate. We gained two new swimmers too! (Check your insurance for that night 'though)Hope this helps! Do you have a Sports Development Officer attatched to your local Council?

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