The Hardship Fund balance seems really healthy, so I don’t know if it really needs fundraising in the way The Raffle was originally set up for, so here are some ideas about what raffle money could go towards, select things you think are a good idea (anon)
Hardship Fund anyway
Contribute to DiS running costs
Big sum to one charity
Split money between lots of charities
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If you want a raffle, would you prefer it to be…
Late November
Early December
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Over a couple of weekdays
On a Saturday all in one
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Polls are really to get a general idea, discussion and ideas encouraged.
Either potentially. Past raffles I did on days where R was with his dad and got home about 6pm, now he’s at school that doesn’t happen on a weekday but is on some Saturdays. If it was a weekday I can raffle during school hours and in the evening, so it might take a couple of days.
Unless I draw everything in advance/completely automate the system and can just drip everything out any time, but I think that would be less fun.
For people not familiar with the raffle set up/history:
The past two years I have run a raffle to raise money for our community Hardship Fund, and it turned out to be way more successful than I imagined and both times we raised in excess of £1000 and gave a lot to other charities as well.
The way it works is that first I seek prize donations from community members, then I do a thread announcing the prizes, next you get to buy a raffle ticket and you get a nice easy form (masterminded by @ynot) to select which prizes you are interested in winning and how interested in them you are to ensure you don’t end up with something you have no interest in or use for. I draw raffle tickets manually because that os the fun way, and select the highest prize available for each person from the results of the form. Hopefully everyone has fun and gets something cool
