Choosing the right prize for your sports club raffle

Sports club raffles are crucial to keep a club operating at a high standard due to memberships only covers a portion of the expenses. Gathering momentum and excitement for the raffle is partly down to what prizes are on offer. However, they don’t need to be expensive, they just need to relevant to the specific to the audience. First of all, put yourself in your potential supporter’s shoes. What type of prize would someone interested in buying tickets? Raffle prize ideas should be ones that appeal to a large majority of people.  Throughout this blog, we will give you prize ideas that will help increase your raffle tickets sales to give your sports club additional money.

Gift Baskets

These prizes can be as creative as you want. To appeal to a certain audience the gift baskets can be themed. If your sports club is a football team, it can contain a ball or goalkeeper gloves. Or to keep it generic add chocolates and drinks for all the family to have. Many people look at the overall value of the prize when they’re considering whether or not to enter. Putting together a basket of a few different products can up the value of your prize, while keeping it directly related to your brand.

Donated Prizes

If you’re looking for a cost-effective way for prizes, then look no further than donations. Local businesses will often donate something to the fundraising event, especially if the cause will help the community. If they accept ask the business if they will sell your raffle tickets in their shop to give the raffle more exposure and hopefully increase the sales. It’s also a great way for you to update donors and prospects about your current and future projects.

Money Prize/Gift Card

Choosing the right prize can always be difficult that’s why if you want to encourage people to participate, using money as a prize is an excellent reward. Or, if you want your prizes to be specific to your cause you can give out a gift card for sports shops or clubs, this should entice sports fans to purchase the raffle tickets. Though it is not quite as visually appealing as an actual product, the choice the winner gets from a gift card could actually get you more entrants.

Hopefully, this guide has given you everything you need to choose the right prize for your raffle. If you have any questions or need a raffle ticket printing service, please do not hesitate to contact us here at Remmer Print, you can email us at john@remmerprint.co.uk or calling 01642 671 651 today.