Spencer junior cricket section
Spencer Cricket Club - Colts Section
Fundraising for The Spencer Club
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Why are we raising money?
Our sports facilities are now brilliant thanks to the efforts of cricket, tennis, hockey and squash members past and present. We have built new outdoor nets, resurfaced our cricket square, built a new electronic scoreboard and also have use of a new astroturf pitch. All of which have propelled the colts into a new era of growth and development. Although we are now able to give competitive sporting opportunities to about 1800 regular players of all ages across our different sports at Spencer, the changing and social facilities have not kept pace. The club once again finds itself limited in what it can achieve by the state of the buildings. We need to bring our crumbling shack of a clubhouse into the 21st century.
Recently The Spencer Club approved a plan to refurbish the clubhouse. This will involve maintaining the present building but improving the quality of the facilities within it, such as the social area, changing rooms, toilets and shower facilities. The club plans to improve the kitchen and bring a more professional approach to day to day running of the club, with snacks and light meals available in the evenings and at weekends. The idea is that this will keep us going for a few more years until we raise sufficient funds to completely redesign and rebuild the clubhouse. We hope to begin work in spring next year.
How much do we need?
However, the refurbishment is not cheap, and the cost has been estimated at some £150,000. Some of this cost is being met from the Club's reserves,but the rest has to be met through fundraising activities across all the sections of the Club. Each Section has been set a target of raising £50 per adult and junior member by the end of December 09. For the cricket colts section, that amounts to £33,500.
This is an ambitious target, but we believe achievable through a combination of individual donations, sponsored events and club organised activities. We are appealing to your generosity and initiative to help us make this exciting project a reality.
You can find the draft plans for the refurbishment on the noticeboard in the clubhouse. We welcome your views and suggestions. Any relevant expertise you can offer will be gratefully received.
May we thank you all in advance for the help and support you are able to give to the Club, and if any of you have any questions please email your age group manager or Phil Burns.
How you can make a donation or help raise funds
Ways to donate to The Spencer Club clubhouse refurbishment fund:
1) Donate on-line directly to through this Just Giving webpage.
For just £5/month for a year you can easily reach the £50 per member target.
Make sure you set up an account first, before making a donations. If you donate without setting up an account first, you will not be able to change or cancel your donation on-line. You would have to phone or write to Just Giving.
2) Set up your own page on Just Giving, pick a challenge and get friends and family to sponsor you.
Individual target is a minimum of £50. Team targets will be £50 x number of members in your team. Why not get your age group together and pick an event or challenge to do together. What about the Pulse 3k run around Hyde Park on 11 October. It 's especially for 11-16 year olds.
There are loads of ideas at the bottom of this page.
a) Go to www.justgiving.com/spencerclub
b) click Make Your Page
c) follow the instructions. You can see an example of a donation page www.justgiving.com/lesley-gairns
3) Sponsor a member through their Just Giving page Cricket Colts managers are planning to run the Bushy Park 10k on October 4th. If you're not going to join them, your could sponsor them on-line on their Just Giving page.
4) Email your colts manager for a donation form, which should be returned to the cricket Section's Treasurer, Bill Travers.
Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the club and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate - we raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the club.
So please dig deep and donate now. Don't forget to Gift Aid it!
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Fundraising Ideas
Individual Fundraisers
Raise £50 on your own – Set up your page on www.justgiving.com/spencerclub and ask friends and family to sponsor you on-line. Here are some fun ideas:
1. Swear box
2. Dye your hair
3. Grow a beard/ moustache
4. Wax your body
5. Charge for doing chores or odd jobs
6. Sweepstakes eg guess the sex, weight, date of birth of a baby
7. Keep quiet for a whole day
8. Lose 10lbs before Christmas
9. Give up alcohol / chocolate/ fizzy drinks / meat for a month
10. Bushy Park 10k - 4 October 09
11. Pulse 3k for 11-16 year olds Kensington Gardens - 11 October 09 (closing date 25 Sept 09) www.pulse3k.com
Team Fundraisers
Pool your £50 per member fundraising targets and organise a big event. Don’t forget to ask your sponsors to donate through your team’s page on Just Giving so that we can reclaim gift aid on donations.
10. Fill a Smarties tube - Each team member fills one or more Smarties tubes with £1 coins. When all handed in, they are numbered and one is picked at random. The collector gets to keep the money in that tube.
11. Supermarket bag packing
(the lacrosse colts raised over £400 for their tour last year packing bags one weekend at Sainsbury’s)
12. Cake sales (cake sales can raise up to £100 each time)
13. Put on a pantomime or talent show
14. Sell T shirts/ mugs/ pins/ equipment
15. Compile a joke book, calendar etc and sell
16. Car wash and valet
17. Sponsored hitchhike to Amsterdam
Events for Adults
18. Quiz night
19. Cheese and wine tasting
20. Auction
21. Disco
22. Horse racing night
23. Bingo / Night at the dogs/ Casino night
24. Singles night
Events for Kids and families
25. football, cricket, rugby, hockey or tennis tournament
26. Fancy dress race or match
27. Run 5k, 10k. Swim 1k
28. Three legged 5km
29. Disco
30. Movie night and Sleep over at the clubhouse
31. Car boot sale / village fete & BBQ
32. It’s a knock out
33. Music festival