Charity Golf Days

‘The Penny Raffle’

A stunning and simple idea to raise both awareness and funds for your charity. This is a scheme which will work well with a golf club, in particular one which has chosen your charity as their ‘Charity of the Year’.

In escence it is no more than a Raffle. However, instead of selling tickets at a set price, you sell each ticket at the face value. For example:

Ticket 1 = 1p; Ticket 2 = 2p; Ticket 3 = 3p etc, etc.

For this example we’ll assume that you have 500 tickets to sell. This means that you will never ask anyone for more than £5 to buy a ticket. The total prize fund when you have added all the ‘Pennies’ is £1252.50.

Here is where you can get the golf club working with you to help boost the interest in the raffle.

The club promote the raffle by announcing that the winning ticket, drawn when all are sold, will have their annual membership fee paid. The rest of the pot will be donated to the charity. (You may even get the club to donate the membership fee)

Offer spot prizes throughout the draw so that people have a chance of winning some other prizes. Wine or Beer from the club bar; voucher from the club pro; meal at the club restaurant etc, etc.

When the tickets have been sold the club then organises a grand draw evening to reveal the winning ticket. You could even organise a golf day beforehand. It will guarantee a huge turnout to the club as members will be very interested to see who wins the top prize.

The golf club wins because their bar bill will go through the roof; you win because you have an event with nil cost and great exposure. You can have your tickets printed with your logo so that people are reminded about your cause.

(By the way, sell 1000 tickets so the maximum ask is now £10, and you’ll raise £5005!)

As ever, you have to be very careful when selling this concept, as you CAN NOT sell the tickets to the general public, only members of a club. This is why you run this fundraising scheme at a golf club, or club with members. 

Don’t get too greedy with this idea. The best way is to keep ticket sales to a maximum of 500. The clubs where I have seen this fundraising scheme in action, always sell this number quickly by asking members to buy their tickets when they are at the bar of the club.

The best times to catch people is usually at the weekend when most people are present at the club. Asking people for the change in their pocket will determine the ticket they receive.

Hope this helps.

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The costs just £69.99 and packs a mighty punch both on, and off the golf course. We’ve been testing the card for close to a year and have saved over £1000 using it day to day.

All purchases made during July attract a £15 donation to your charity via Charity Golf Days. Plus the membership will last for two years instead of one.

A great way to raise money through your golfers, without them having to hit a ball in anger.

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Why the need for a University?

Well, the overwhelming feedback thus far has called for a more detailed resource for those wanting more than an ebook.

With our planning for the new semistar well under way, we are today releasing details of the ‘Overview’ we perform when starting to organise a charity golf day.

Follow the University link and join the University Forum which is FREE. We’ll email our FREE Charity Golf Day Audit for your completion and return.

When we have received your audit, we’ll compile our review and return it together with:

• The University of Charity Golf Prospectus
• 10% Voucher to redeem when joining the University
• 10% Voucher to redeem when purchasing the Charity Golf Days Ebook

Your details will be kept completely confidential, and not passed onto anyone else within the Charity Golf Days Organisation.

You are under no obligation to either join the University or to buy the Ebook by taking part in our FREE Charity Golf Day Audit.

The long awaited ebook guide for Charity Golf Days is now approaching fast.

In addition to the guide, organisers are to have the opportunity to join the first University for Charity Golf. Through this unique medium under-graduates will be able to learn direct from industry experts, month by month, as they study towards their degree in Charity Golf.

Jason Elton, founder of Charity Golf Days, commented:

“The response to the blogs from the last few weeks has been phenomenal, and greatly appreciated. With the clamour for more in depth knowledge being requested, we decided to put together a package whereby training and development, could lead towards better fundraising at a charity golf day.”

“The chance for a volunteer golf fundraiser to tap into expert charity knowledge will ensure that revenue will increase during the golfing events, and provide them with the platforms to develop long term relationships for the charity corporate fundraiser beyond the 19th hole.”

Registrations for the Charity Golf University are being finalised during the next week for launch after the ebook and website. Be sure to bookmark the University section of this blog for up to date details.