Selling Raffle Tickets

Submitted by Brian Wood
President of the Rotary Club of Flamingo, Welkom

This is not a project, but I would like to share an idea which was introduced by one of our Rotarians a few years ago.

All clubs must have the problem of selling tickets to a draw in order to collect funds for a needy cause. We had a big resistance to the selling of tickets by our Rotarians and we have had a few draws in the past by giving tickets to service organisations, Churches, schools etc. The motivating reward to the organisation is that they keep between 50-80% of the cost of the ticket for themselves. In this way we are providing a totally risk free method of raising funds for various organisations by printing the tickets and providing the prizes.

Our Rotarians are asked to sell sufficient tickets to cover the cost of the printing, prizes and an evening's cost for the draw. We draw 100 tickets and these ticket holders are then invited to attend the final draw function, we also invite the top three organisations (based on number of tickets sold) to the draw and obviously have press coverage.

This system will only work if the draw is offering some good prizes (e.g. Return tickets to any destination in the world for 2, boat trips and holidays)

Our present draw which we are now selling tickets for is a 3 night boat trip for 2 which we paid for one and got one free. Other prizes we obtain from various sponsors.

I hope that this idea will be of benefit to those clubs who had the same resistance to the selling of 'Draw' tickets

17/10/02