Sports Fundraising Ideas

By Elizabeth De Alwis
Posted: 11/14/2009 09:22:28 AM PST

Ticket sales for the Paradise High School House of Sports fundraising raffle have risen to an all-time high in the past week with the announcement of planned open house tours starting Thanksgiving Weekend.
According to Project Coordinator Jack Danielson, 150 tickets were sold in the past week, which is more than any previous week throughout the process. It brought the total sales to approximately 850 tickets, which sold for $100 each. That means the project has raised $85,000 of the targeted goal – $500,000 with the intent of keeping high school sports programs intact. Now 4,150 tickets remain.

And the three-bedroom house, located at 1856 Conifer Drive, is nearly completed due to the site management of Trilogy Construction, donations from local businesses and numerous volunteers. Once the open house tours begin Nov. 28 and 29, project coordinators hope to see sales soar. The open house events will also feature raffle drawings for $2.50 tickets. Visitors can win many prizes contributed by local businesses, and the grand prize is a raffle ticket for the house drawing.

“We are going to hold the event of the year hoping the ticket sales will skyrocket once the house is seen by the public,” said Joan Swingle, House of Sports Designer and Decorator. Even as the project is coming to completion, the house is still drawing donations. Swingle said it seems “Christmas is coming early to Paradise” and to the high school sports program, with donations from companies and

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She said an exciting thing happened just the other day when Lincoln Hardware, a company located in North Carolina, offered to donate the custom cabinet hardware free of charge. The company had initially offered a discount for the House of Sports, but the west coast sales manager called earlier this week to relay the news that Lincoln decided to donate the hardware. Swingle said it appears Paradise and this project, in particular, is being “touched by the nation,” with generosity of spirit and heart coming from outside the community.

In addition, local business owners Mike and Robin Bitker -Booster Vice President and Secretary, have stepped up to support the program by donating $500 towards the raffle prizes.

“They have set the bar high in graciousness and responding to the needs of the young men and women knowing all too well the criticality of the success of the House Of Sports Fundraiser,” Swingle said. “There will not be any school budgeted sports programs next year if this fundraiser is not a success.”

For information regarding the house, ticket sales, or to donate prizes for upcoming raffle events, please call Joan Swingle at Joan Swingle’s Decorator’s Delight (530) 228-9522 or go online and view the webpage www.keepoursports.com. Tickets can also be purchased through the mail by sending a check payable to PHS Boosters to Decorator’s Delight at 5790 Clark Road Paradise, Calif., 95969. Please be sure to include a driver’s license number, address and phone number.

Thighs the limit for Ribchester fundraising game

6:30pm Monday 31st August 2009

By Nazia Parveen »

A GROUP of Ribble Valley women have come up with a new twist on the naked calendar charity fundraiser.

The 12 ladies have produced raffle tickets bearing just their legs.

Contestants are challenged to match the legs to pictures of their faces displayed on the calendar’s cover in Ribchester shops.

The answers will be revealed during a special event later this month when the full calendar will be revealed.

In the meantime, residents are snapping up tickets – and eyeing up contestants.

The idea was first mooted by the owner of the village sandwich shop, Janis Whitlock, and her neighbour, Billy Sharples, in a bid to raise cash for the Rosemere Cancer Foundation after they both lost close relatives to the disease.

She said: “It’s quite funny because people are walking round staring at our legs and they keep coming into the shop and asking to have a look at mine.

“It really is a fun way of raising money for a wonderful charity.”

Mrs Whitlock, had only been married to her husband Brian for three months when he died of bowel cancer in September, last year.

The 52-year-old, said: “Brian would do anything for anybody and at his funeral the church was packed which is testament to how popular he was.

“The fundraising is a way of helping me and others whose relatives die to carry on.” Mrs Whitlock has already helped raise more than £4,000 for the cancer charity after organising a bike ride, which saw her 21-year-old son, Adam, and 11 other cyclists riding from Cardiff to Ribchester.

She added: “We wanted to give something back to the absolutely fabulous people whowork at Rosemere. They are special and always seem to put themselves out for all the patients and their families.”

Billy Sharples, who helped create the calendar, lost his partner Christine and stepson, Stephen, to the disease three years ago.

The retired decorator, who lives in Fort Avenue, said: “Many of the women who took part have either beat cancer or lost a relative to it so the charity is very close to all our hearts.”

The identities of which legs belong to which women will be revealed at a special event in Ribchester Sports and Social Club, in Church Street, on September 19.