Fund Raising for Cricket Club 

When playing the wonderful game of cricket you are sure to spend a lot of time at the old cricket club. Lets face it, cricket can take a long long time to play and can sometimes be very tiring. But you love it and so you keep on playing, week after week, year after year. Cricket is a great way to meet new friends and have some good old fashioned fun in the sun. Whether you play for a little community club or a big professional organisation, the time may come when you have to raise some funds for your favourite sport.

If you are truly dedicated to your sport and your cricket club the time will eventually come when you look around the old club house and realise that it could do with a little tender loving care, a new coat of paint perhaps, maybe even some new furniture. Or maybe your team mates and you are sick of playing the same old opposition week in and week out and want to go on a tour to face some new challenges and have some fun away from home. Or maybe your team just needs some new cricket equipment so that you can keep playing in your local competition. If any or all of these possibilities have crossed your mind then you are going to need one thing to turn your dreams into reality, money - and a way to raise it.

Fundraising for a cricket club can actually be a lot of fun if you approach it with the right attitude and realise that there are many different methods you can use. A good fundraising idea can make all the difference and I am going to go over a few of the more popular ways to start you making money. There is always the tried and tested method of using raffle tickets as a money raising tool. People are normally more than happy to part with a little money to help out a local community organisation, especially if they have a chance to win a prize. Raffle tickets are great because you can get the entire club involved in their distribution and make a lot more money than if there was just one person doing all the work.

Another traditional way of fundraising is by putting on some kind of event and charging people to enter, or even just charging money from food and drinks sales at the event. This is a good method if you can get everyone involved to donate their goods and services to the event, leaving a 100% profit which can all go in the fundraising pile. Being a cricket club, you could easily put on a special match and charge entry, or organise an after game party back at the club house. There are also lots of more creative solutions if you are ready to think outside of the box. You could sell off some of the bachelors in your team as a date to some of the local ladies, or get an old famous cricketing hero in to do a talk and charge people to enter. If you really love your club and want it to have the money it deserves, there are plenty of great ways to raise money in the name of cricket.