Register a team for Relay at
Geelong
NOTE: Link to CCV site

Select the Geelong event from the list after you have selected GO below. Registration is $15 per team member.

Start registration now

GO

Register as a volunteer for Relay at Geelong

Submit your name and email address here to register your interest in volunteering for the Geelong Relay for Life. You will be contacted by the volunteer coordinator to discuss what you would like to do at the event or leading up to the event.

		GO

Team Fundraising Tips

Geelong Relay For Life > Teams

Fundraising Ideas

Useful pointers:
The earlier you start your fundraising efforts the better.Team captains should motivate team members and regularly keep in contact and offer ideas Approach as many people as possible - spread the word Offer a receipt for donations over $2.00. Always remain enthusiastic - it will encourage others Think positive. YOU CAN DO IT!

Car Wash:
Choose a busy location, with enough room to allow cars to come and go. Stick to water restrictions, which means no hoses, buckets only. Recommended time is 2-3 hours. Make sure you have enough people to cope with possible demand. Appropriate signage so people know what you are doing. Relay banners are available if needed.

The "drive":
These fund-raisers are very popular. They are simple, versatile and sometimes you get help. There are many companies that offer their assistance if you chose their particular product. An example of a drive would be when a chocolate company offers you their chocolates at say a dollar each, you then sell them for two dollars, you pass on the dollar and keep the dollar difference. Drives can raise from a few hundred to many thousands of dollars depending on the size of your member base and the item chosen for the fund-raiser.

Drives can include items like those listed below:

• Chocolates
• Pies
• Pizzas
• Cards
• Coffee
• Books
• Lollies
• Sock
• Slices
• Wrapping paper.

Christmas wrapping:
A great and simple way to raise funds leading up to Christmas by providing a welcome time saving service that can add that little extra to some one's gift. Most people at this time of year find it hard enough to find time to do their shopping so finding someone to wrap the present in an elegant and beautiful manner is a welcome investment. Market Square and Westfield already have their own wrapping services, but you can try your local shopping plaza. All you need is a table, plenty of sticky tape, wrapping paper, ribbon and perhaps some gift tags. You also need to be a good wrapper. Depending on how much your materials cost you can charge $2 for a small present and $4 for a large, or just a gold coin donation.

Raffles:
50/50 raffle: The first raffle is called 50/50 because the funds raised are split 50-50 between the fund-raisers and winner. A 50/50 raffle is probably the easiest of all raffles to run and with the bonus of a minimum initial outlay. All you have to pay for up front are the raffle tickets, or a board with the numbers for sale. There is no need to pre-arrange prizes of any sort or worry over what to offer as the next prize, which makes it easier to enrol volunteers.

Non-event night:
This raffle requires a number of smaller prizes (more than 20) that people can win so that it lasts a long time. People purchase tickets as normal, but to win they must be at home of the night that the raffle is drawn to claim a prize if drawn out. Over the period of an hour names are drawn out of a hat and put next to a prize. The person is then phoned to be told that they have one a prize. If they are not home another name is drawn out until the prize is claimed. You then move onto the next prize.

Normal raffle:
Raffles can be easy but also repetitive. You can approach a company to donate a prize that people would want to win, or get friends of members of a club or school if that is where it is being done to donate goods for a Christmas hamper for example.
Please note:
All raffles with a prize pool in excess of $5,000 must have a permit. You can obtain further info by contacting the Office of Gambling Regulation on 9651-3630 or go to www.org.vic.gov.au. And click on community permits.

Sausage sizzle:
Easy way of making some money. Set up outside a busy place (with permission of course) to sell sausages and burgers. All you need is bread, sausages, burgers, napkins, sauces, onion a table, utensils for cooking and a BBQ (some places already have BBQ.s that you can use, eg. Bunnings, Mitre 10.
Please note:
Anybody handling food must have a current food handlers certificate.

Shopping Tour:
This is a great way of fundraising and you get to have fun too. Shopping tour companies are easy to find in the yellow pages. They run from now through till Christmas. Grab all your friends and advertise through your local community group. Shoppers each pay a fee for the bus and food if you are going to supply it. The bus will take you to the best warehouses in Melbourne. You pre-select where you want to go before the tour. You get a percentage of what is spent at each stop. A bus with 15 people can raise $500, a full bus (40-50) can raise in excess of $1000.

Trivia night:
Trivia nights can be a whole lot of fun. They require a little more in the way of organising, however this is repaid by lots of laughs and fun on the night.