Often on these forum threads someone comes up with a good idea for fund raising or how to get more people through the gates.
These are unfortunately lost from view all too quickly and those that could implement them will not always see them.
Obviously not all “good ideas” would get action but it would be good to gather them all in one place a bit like a suggestion box thread.
Maybe this could become like the Pat Gradley thread but for ideas and suggestions.
This could be a good thread for those who do not subscribe to MYFC. Hopefully some of the society board will have a look and take some ideas onboard or supplement to existing ideas from MYFC forums.
I will start the ball rolling.
Sell 1000 draw tickets at £10 each. Winner gets to sponsor a league game and take 7 friends. Full package , maybe include meal at local restaurant.
Now sticky.
I like the post from Riverview Supporter.
Is there any local and or companies that the club could as for help with its situaion!
Have we thought of writing to the council about the club and not the stadium? What else is there is Gravesend that pulls in a mix of people as the club does?
While also giving back to the local community!
Im Liking that Riverview very good idea...Hopefully You Will Put this to the Society?
How about Advertising Boards on Every Spare wall/roof we have?
Good point Robert. If it moves or is looked at it should be sponsored. It may be peanuts but lots of peanuts is a big bag of peanuts.
We used to have sposorship on the Northfleet End Stand roof (Truman Beers if memory serves me correctly), maybe if we fix that and the other two up a bit we could invite offers
My old cricket club runs a 100 club - £2 per share per month, with 50% of the income drawn as prize money drawn each month.
Extend that to 5000 fans, family, MYFC members, Wembley attendees etc x £4 per month, paid by standing order. Total = £20,000 ... PER MONTH.
A pound a week is almost nothing these days.
Prize money = £8,000 made up of lots of tempting amounts ranging from £1000 jackpot to lots of £50's.
Club makes £12,000 per month, which is the best part of £3,000 per week.
In my experience people will buy into something if there is a chance of getting something in return, rather than just chucking £10 per month into a pot.
A scheme like this would take a fair bit of organising - but the rewards would cover over half of the weekly playing budget.
There are so many fund raising initiatives going on at the moment but the one that seems to be the most succesfull is Harry's 50-50 (even the tight old chaps around me dip in for a 50-50 ticket). One strength of having myfc is that it has 9500 members - so why not have an on-line Harry's 50-50 draw (as part of being a member of myfc). Lets say a draw is made for every game, home and away inc cup matches - to round it up lets say 50 games (so 50 draws). Each myfc member pays £35 to belong to myfc and pays another £50 for a seasons entry in Harry H's on-line 50-50 draw. At each game the draw raises £9500 - the winner gets £4750 and the club gets £4750 - which over the 50 game run would give 4750 X 50 = £237500 ( Plus an option could be that each winner can donate a percentage of his winnings to the club pot as with the winner of Harry's 50/50 at the last game. So the suggestion is rather than raise the membership fee for myfc keep it the same but add on a 50-50 subscription and a chance to win £4750 at every game. (But more importantly raise substantial money for 'their' club.
Now THAT seems a really good idea.
Excellent idea BUT!!!!!
The website already costs £250,000 a year to run, if we add this additional thing, then surely it would cost more to 'add' this to the website?? It is a great idea though, maybe we should get the ball rolling on this for next season??
The website already costs £250,000
What???!!!
I cannot believe a website costs THAT much.
Close the thing down if tha't's the case - give the money to Fleet and let Ed Miller add a bolt-on to the EUFC site if neccessary.
Thats what I heard anyway
£250k is roughly the income generated from the current MyFC subscription fees, less the operator's cut. I'm guessing there's some confusion here.
£250k is roughly the income generated from the current MyFC subscription fees, less the operator's cut. I'm guessing there's some confusion here.
It's also the sort of figure that went to the operator in the first year.
It's also the sort of figure that went to the operator in the first year.
Hmmmm..... yeah you're right! An obscene amount of money.
The main problem with forums is that ideas and suggestions tend to get lost amongst all the other comments and dialogue, which is no problem if we are just discussing the game etc. With this thread however, it may be worthwhile cutting and pasting all the ideas into one condensed file and sending it to those in a position to view them and make a decision - I get the feeling the sooner the talking stops and someone makes a decision and then actually does something the better.
how about a season highlights dvd of all the games from last season and sell it at a price of £15-£20. im sure most of the fans will buy it.
I think the 3 suggestions that have been made already and putting and emphasis on Harrys 50-50 online draw should definatley be put forward asap....And yes Displaced Red we did and it's still possible to see the faded letters. instead of having one big sponsor across there we could have loads of boards joined together (you never know it may even stop some of the leaks coming through!!) but not just on the Plough End even the H/W Line and Main Stand im certain there is alot of space going to waste at that ground OK it may look like our roofs and boards are made out of advertising but still its much need money!
Also already this Website has had to look to advertising banners so what about a AOL/Google/Yahoo Search bar on the Main Site would this generate any possible income and maybe could lead to advertising at the ground or even Match Sponsorship?
Regarding the suggestion to advertise on the stand roofs - we are on the flight path to City Airport - any advert would also be seen by passengers coming and going from the airport - maybe the airlines operating from City Airport would be interested? Just another thought regarding the Harry H's on-line 50-50 draw - we could make a big thing of it and have it televised at half time to add to the live streaming for overseas members. Should also consider whether the on-line 50-50 integrated with Harry's normal 50-50 draw, so everyone both on-line (myfc members) and at the game (supporters) has a chance to win nearly £5000 at every match.
I did suggest some time ago that each individual underside of roof panel that is replaced, be sponsored by one, or a group of fans with signage of their choice.I think the 3 suggestions that have been made already and putting and emphasis on Harrys 50-50 online draw should definatley be put forward asap....And yes Displaced Red we did and it's still possible to see the faded letters. instead of having one big sponsor across there we could have loads of boards joined together (you never know it may even stop some of the leaks coming through!!) but not just on the Plough End even the H/W Line and Main Stand im certain there is alot of space going to waste at that ground OK it may look like our roofs and boards are made out of advertising but still its much need money!
One strength of having myfc is that it has 9500 members - so why not have an on-line Harry's 50-50 draw (as part of being a member of myfc).
I was actually involved with Steve Sullivan (when he was on the Board) in attempting to get an MyFc lotto off the ground. There are actually legal problems with doing this - many countries outside the UK have laws that prevent their citizens from gambling online in a foreign country. We also had a problem with using Paypal for payments (paypal's regulations prohibit using paypal for gambling). We appeared to have reached agreement with the local Paypal legal representative to allow us to use paypal to receive money for the lotto when some memebrs (for want of a better word) complained to Paypal internationally and scuppered the agreement. There was consideration given to expanding harry's 50-50 online but it was suggested to me that the local fans might not appreciate people not at the game winning the prize. There is currently a MyFc lotto but the issue should be re-visited to see if something can be done to increase potential revenue.
It's also the sort of figure that went to the operator in the first year.
Think this is where the figure is coming from - not the 'cost' of the website. Another £38,000 was also paid in VAT to the operator. Since February the 'operator' has received substantially less.
I imagined that there would be legal problems regarding collecting money from overseas subscribers. But perhaps consideration should be given to making the myfc membership £85, which includes entry to a free 50-50 draw at every game. With regards to local supporters getting the hump I don't think any of us would be too peeved if the club received nearly £300,000 a season from the scheme. Perhaps the fans forum should host a vote via the site on whether supporters would be upset if a myfc member won £4750 on an on-line 50-50 draw, and the club had received £4750? As I mentioned previously it may be worth considering ways of integrating the 50-50 draws, that Harry's 0n-line 50-50 via myfc membership, Harry's 50-50 draw at the game, and perhaps a EUFC website on-line version. The important point is that we do not have 10000 supporters (as Oxford have) but we do have 9600 myfc members who have some interest in the club and its survival. At the moment it is the same people whether myfc or home supporters who respond to fund raising schemes (and their are so many of them fragmented between the club, myfc and the trust) - and the reality is that combined they will never provide the sort of cash amounts required. The recent meeting at the ground proposed raising the membership fee for myfc to £100 (which would probably have the same effect as raising the admission fee to £15 - less members). At least by raising the fee to £85 and giving entry to the 50-50 draw a member has a fighting chance of winning a substantial amount of money at each game - It may just persuade enough members to pay the additional membership subscription - and perhaps show local supporters that the membership of myfc were contributing a significant amount to the survival of their football club. On a final note the club and myfc obviously must have access to legal advice regarding all the fund raising, lottery schemes etc that in place at the moment and it may be worth just asking the question of whether you can have a free 50-50 on-line draw based on a membership fee of £85. Of course that leaves the trickiest part of this proposal - myfc will have to convince its members that substantially more than £35 is required each year to be part of this football club. But in reality they are going to have to do that anyway to reach the sort of targets needed to ensure the survival of this football club.
Before anybody asks I am a member of myfc (and a shareholder of the football club) and I have posted my suggestion within the forum of myfc on a thread that is discussing membership fees.
Up The Fleet !!
The cost of repairing the stands so that they can be painted with logos etc apaprently far outweighs the amount of sponsorship they will generate - this idea was investigated by myfc a while ago.
Going back to the Advertising all over the place idea which i have spoken to a few people and definatley agree with and im liking the added advantage of being on a flight path....Outside were we have advertising hordings there...there are alot of empty gaps which still could be filled with with other hordings for more sponsors!...
Society board will keep an eye on this thread with interest.
Society board will keep an eye on this thread with interest.
And then put it to a vote and by the time any decision is made it will be too late!
You will never beat the hoarding inside the ground for Marie Stopes clinic, proclaiming "Improves your ball control"!!!
Priceless!
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