Fundraising Tips
- Fundraising committees allocate duties and agree to meet regularly. Make sure to always take minutes and distribute them. This keeps everyone informed and acts as a handy check list of things that need to be done before the next meeting.
- Plan. Determine what needs to be done, when it needs to be done by and who will do it. Start early if your activity involves booking facilities, requiring insurance, applying for permissions or inviting a guest speaker. These may take time.
- Fundraising goals: Determine how much money you want to raise. Keep it all in check – you may have brilliant ideas, but how much will it cost to do? Remember the fundraiser needs to make money to be successful.
- Past successes: Review past fundraising activities. If it has been successful before then there’s probably no reason to change the activity.
- Enthusiasm counts. Discuss what you would all enjoy selling or participate in. If you’re enthusiastic about something, you’ll be more motivated to sell and get people involved.
- Hidden talents: Find out the hidden talents and resources of club members, friends, relatives and associates. A child’s father may be an event organiser, another’s aunt a sports personality or a next-door neighbour could own a catering company. Utilise what you can to cut down on costs.
- Permissions and regulations: Make sure you get all the necessary permissions and have covered all regulations. Examples include:
- For all activities, check if you need to register with your local council. Their website will feature a range of fact sheets and applications.
- If the event is not on the club’s premises, check with the local council for permission to use a public facility or area.
- If you’re serving food, you’ll need to comply with health and food regulations.
- Give thanks. Remember to thank everyone; people are giving up their time and resources to help.
- Is this a good place to explain how Tennis NZ can help? E.g. affiliation letter, letter of support for major projects, facilities framework document for supporting material to councils for major infrastructure. For Book a Court we have developed a specific funding letter of support from both Tennis NZ and for the club to use themselves
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