Virgin Money Giving

Virgin Money Giving are one of the UK’s leading online fundraising sites. With an expert team and can do attitude, Virgin Money Giving can assist in helping your donor golfers raise more money for your charity golf days.

‘Virgin Money Giving is dedicated to helping charities and fundraisers raise more money for their great causes, aims which are matched by charitygolfdays.com’s mission to provide the tools, technology and knowledge to enable more money to be raised at charity golf days and tournaments. With the obvious synergy between our two organisations, Virgin Money Giving is proud to be associated with charitygolfdays.com.’
- Alex Heasly – Charity Account Manager, Virgin Money Giving

Our new website is nearing completion, and amongst all the chaos of getting a new site up and running, I’ve neglected keeping this blog up to date.

So, what is new?

Our bespoke site will launch in the next fortnight and will allow provide an online resource for those organsing a charity golf day. Features will include:

1. Charity Golf Day Calendar – Publish details of your Charity Golf Day to the internet quickly
2. Create your own bespoke ‘Golf Club’ where you can co-ordinate all your charity golf day activiies
3. Give your charity golf day golfers all the online fundraising links to raise money before, during and after your charity golf day
4. Add photos, videos and links for all your charity golf day links
5. Learn from our Prefferred Partners bringing you the latest offers from the Charity Golf Day Sector

All in all it has been a bit of a challenge to get the site to where we have it today.

If you wish to have a look around pre-launch please register for free at www.charitygolfdays.com/html

Look forward to seeing you there.

A stunning and simple idea to raise both awareness and funds for your charity. This is a scheme which will work well with a golf club, in particular one which has chosen your charity as their ‘Charity of the Year’.

In escence it is no more than a Raffle. However, instead of selling tickets at a set price, you sell each ticket at the face value. For example:

Ticket 1 = 1p; Ticket 2 = 2p; Ticket 3 = 3p etc, etc.

For this example we’ll assume that you have 500 tickets to sell. This means that you will never ask anyone for more than £5 to buy a ticket. The total prize fund when you have added all the ‘Pennies’ is £1252.50.

Here is where you can get the golf club working with you to help boost the interest in the raffle.

The club promote the raffle by announcing that the winning ticket, drawn when all are sold, will have their annual membership fee paid. The rest of the pot will be donated to the charity. (You may even get the club to donate the membership fee)

Offer spot prizes throughout the draw so that people have a chance of winning some other prizes. Wine or Beer from the club bar; voucher from the club pro; meal at the club restaurant etc, etc.

When the tickets have been sold the club then organises a grand draw evening to reveal the winning ticket. You could even organise a golf day beforehand. It will guarantee a huge turnout to the club as members will be very interested to see who wins the top prize.

The golf club wins because their bar bill will go through the roof; you win because you have an event with nil cost and great exposure. You can have your tickets printed with your logo so that people are reminded about your cause.

(By the way, sell 1000 tickets so the maximum ask is now £10, and you’ll raise £5005!)

As ever, you have to be very careful when selling this concept, as you CAN NOT sell the tickets to the general public, only members of a club. This is why you run this fundraising scheme at a golf club, or club with members. 

Don’t get too greedy with this idea. The best way is to keep ticket sales to a maximum of 500. The clubs where I have seen this fundraising scheme in action, always sell this number quickly by asking members to buy their tickets when they are at the bar of the club.

The best times to catch people is usually at the weekend when most people are present at the club. Asking people for the change in their pocket will determine the ticket they receive.

Hope this helps.

Well, the overwhelming feedback thus far has called for a more detailed resource for those wanting more than an ebook.

With our planning for the new semistar well under way, we are today releasing details of the ‘Overview’ we perform when starting to organise a charity golf day.

Follow the University link and join the University Forum which is FREE. We’ll email our FREE Charity Golf Day Audit for your completion and return.

When we have received your audit, we’ll compile our review and return it together with:

• The University of Charity Golf Prospectus
• 10% Voucher to redeem when joining the University
• 10% Voucher to redeem when purchasing the Charity Golf Days Ebook

Your details will be kept completely confidential, and not passed onto anyone else within the Charity Golf Days Organisation.

You are under no obligation to either join the University or to buy the Ebook by taking part in our FREE Charity Golf Day Audit.

In addition to the guide, organisers are to have the opportunity to join the first University for Charity Golf. Through this unique medium under-graduates will be able to learn direct from industry experts, month by month, as they study towards their degree in Charity Golf.

Jason Elton, founder of Charity Golf Days, commented:

“The response to the blogs from the last few weeks has been phenomenal, and greatly appreciated. With the clamour for more in depth knowledge being requested, we decided to put together a package whereby training and development, could lead towards better fundraising at a charity golf day.”

“The chance for a volunteer golf fundraiser to tap into expert charity knowledge will ensure that revenue will increase during the golfing events, and provide them with the platforms to develop long term relationships for the charity corporate fundraiser beyond the 19th hole.”

Registrations for the Charity Golf University are being finalised during the next week for launch after the ebook and website. Be sure to bookmark the University section of this blog for up to date details.

A fantastic day was had by all, and despite a low turnout the charity still raised £1300.

During the day Charity Golf Days, hosted the longest drive competition and also ran a quiz to entertain the golfers on the course and at dinner.

The videos and other comments from the day, can also be found at Home Start Golf.

This works a treat during the day, and there are plenty of groans when the answers are read out.

The golf phrases listed below are intended for the UK audience but, I’m sure, that our American friends have plenty of their own phrases we don’t know about.

Hope this helps.

Jase

A Sally Gunnell – not pretty but a good runner

A Paris Hilton – an expensive hole

A Dennis Wise – a nasty 5 footer

A Diego Maradona – a very nasty 5 footer

A Salman Rushdie – an impossible read

A Rio Ferdinand – Lipped out

A Rock Hudson – thought it was straight, but it wasn’t

A Cuban – needs one more revolution

An Elton John – a big bender that lips the rim

An Adolf Hitler – two shots in the bunker

A Yasser Arafat – ugly and in the sand

A Kate Winslett – a bit fat but otherwise perfect

A Kate Moss – bit thin

A Gerry Adams – playing a Provisional

A David Trimble – tentative prod

A Glen Miller – kept low and didn’t make it over the water

An Arthur Scargill – a great strike but a poor result

A Russell Grant – a fat iron

A Peter Mandelson – an unbelievable iron

A Rodney King – over-clubbed

An O.J. Simpson – got away with it

A Paula Radcliffe – not as ugly as a Sally Gunnell but still a good
runner

A Princess Grace – should have taken a driver

A Princess Di – shouldn’t have taken a driver

A Robin Cook – just died on the hill

A Michael Jackson – gradually fading

A Douglas Bader – looked good in the air, but didn’t have the legs

An Arsene Wenger – everyone saw where it went but you

A Ken Livingstone – quite far left

A Jean-Marie LePen – a long way right

A Ladyboy – looks like an easy hole but all is not what it seems

A condom – safe but didn’t feel real good

A circus tent – a BIG top

An Anna Kournikova – looks great, but unlikely to get a result

A Vinnie Jones – nasty kick when you’re not expecting it

A Ryanair – flies well but lands a long way from the target

A sister-in-law – up there but I know that I shouldn’t be

No it’s not a car engine. It is in fact a golf club, twice the legal size of any a golfer is allowed to carry during their round.

It will be one of the highlights at the Home Start Charity Golf Day tomorrow at Oak Park, Farnham.

Golfers will be asked to take part in the Longest Drive Competition using the 1000cc driver instead of their own club.

It is a great ice breaker and good fun to see people reduced to just hitting the ball a few yards with the big club.

Naturally there is a charge to use the club, and unfortunately it is only available to right handed golfers but, even the lefties have a bash, so it raises money.

Not got a 1000cc driver? Think outside of teh tee box with this one. There are plenty of hickory shafted clubs for hire, use them.

If you’re in the United Kingdom, drop me a line and I’ll see if we can get the 1000cc driver to your next tournament. Watch out for the video tomorrow of some of the swings! 

Hope this helps.

Jase

A great way to kick off any after golf fundraising activity, just before you get people to sit down at their table to eat.

Ask everyone in the room to point to the sexiest person on their table – always interesting at male dominated golf days – and get this person stood on their feet for room approval. These sexy people are now your fundraising partners throughout the rest of the day.

Ask the sexy people to collect £5, £10, £20 whatever amount you wish (so long as it folds!) from each person at the meal table. Once collected from each table you can now play Heads & Tails, when someone will win half the pot you’ve just collected.

Get everyone stood on their feet, and ask them to select which way they think the toss of the coin will go by…

Placing their hands on their heads for ‘Heads’ or placing their hands on their bums for ‘Tails’

Flip the coin and announce the result. All those that have chosen correctly stay in the game; all those who chose incorrectly sit down.

Repeat the same process until you have just three people left. Get these three people at the front of the room and repeat until you have a winner.

It will not eat up too much of your time; I promise you this will be over in 5 minutes.

Now here’s the clever bit.

When you hand over the winning pot to the winner, suggest in front of everyone that they really would rather donate the pot back to the charity, wouldn’t they.

Works nearly everytime and is a great ice-breaker for the start of your after golf fundraising activity.

Hope this helps.

Jase

Golf is an incredibly social sport to particpate in. Having played in your charity golf day, the chances are that your golfers will carry on playing charity golf and organising their own rounds of golf.

Harness the spending power of the golfers by forming your own golfing society. You don’t have to aim for anything too grand to start off with.

Providing a society for your charity offers you countless opportunities to foster long term relationships, with a regular income.

Charge an annual fee (membership fee) and start to give the members the chance to carry on fundraising for your charity on the back of yoiur successful golf day. Don’t lose them.

The highlight will still be the annual golf day which you organise, but encourage your audience to obtain automatic qualification for the following year by reaching a fundraising target.

Once you have a membership you can start to influence their spending power within all the other areas of the charity. Talk to the other people in the charity and introduce them to your membership.

Hope this helps.

Jase