pamperedalf
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Some of you were wondering how we do our Bingo Fundraisers, so I'm posting how we tweaked it from an idea I saw on chef success. Last year we were looking for a way to get Fundraisers & increase our business. I had read on here how people were hosting these bingo nights & walking away w/ over a $1,000 in sales & doing 2-4 shows in one night. I was intrigued because I want to work smarter not harder.
Here's what we have done. We find a school or organization that needs to raise $$. We pick a date for a Bingo Mania night that works for them & us. They find the place & supply it (schools we usually use their cafeterias, we have used a local conference center we can rent it for $25 w/ the non profit #)
We advertise in the paper & on the radio for people to come play bingo for some fabulous pampered chef prizes, & of course whoever the Fundraiser is for we invite all of them. Then we each try to find hosts (the host invites all their friends & family to come play bingo. All orders collected from her friends & family go in her name as a show, plus we encourage them to collect outside orders just like hosting a show *they have the option to take host benefits or turn it into a Fundraiser to give the organization extra $$) I have a goal of at least 3 hosts per Bingo, sometimes it doesn't work & sometimes it does.
Bingo Night~
We have bought Daubers & bingo cards (take the money out of Bingo sales to cover the expenses). I have a program on my laptop that I bought for $10 to call numbers or one of the other girls has a bingo ball table. We Usually do 8-10 games, and sell the bingo game packs (1 of every game) starting at $15, 2 of every game $25, & 3 of every game $30.
We take about 25% of bingo sales(I say about because what we bring in varies from group to group) to buy the next bingo prizes & the rest is a donation to the organization. There's 3 of us, so we usually split the $$ for prizes & enter the order under our name.
We also do a 50/50 raffle. we sell the tickets at $1 each or 30 tickets(head to toe) for $10. 50% of the money goes to the organization & the other is a shopping spree out of our catalog. The most we had was $180 dollars I believe.
It's a lot of fun, & more & more of my customers are loving this idea. They don't have to clean their house or buy any food. Oh sometimes the organizations sell food/snacks (that's them not us).
I hope this explains better, please feel free to ask any questions.
Here's what we have done. We find a school or organization that needs to raise $$. We pick a date for a Bingo Mania night that works for them & us. They find the place & supply it (schools we usually use their cafeterias, we have used a local conference center we can rent it for $25 w/ the non profit #)
We advertise in the paper & on the radio for people to come play bingo for some fabulous pampered chef prizes, & of course whoever the Fundraiser is for we invite all of them. Then we each try to find hosts (the host invites all their friends & family to come play bingo. All orders collected from her friends & family go in her name as a show, plus we encourage them to collect outside orders just like hosting a show *they have the option to take host benefits or turn it into a Fundraiser to give the organization extra $$) I have a goal of at least 3 hosts per Bingo, sometimes it doesn't work & sometimes it does.
Bingo Night~
We have bought Daubers & bingo cards (take the money out of Bingo sales to cover the expenses). I have a program on my laptop that I bought for $10 to call numbers or one of the other girls has a bingo ball table. We Usually do 8-10 games, and sell the bingo game packs (1 of every game) starting at $15, 2 of every game $25, & 3 of every game $30.
We take about 25% of bingo sales(I say about because what we bring in varies from group to group) to buy the next bingo prizes & the rest is a donation to the organization. There's 3 of us, so we usually split the $$ for prizes & enter the order under our name.
We also do a 50/50 raffle. we sell the tickets at $1 each or 30 tickets(head to toe) for $10. 50% of the money goes to the organization & the other is a shopping spree out of our catalog. The most we had was $180 dollars I believe.
It's a lot of fun, & more & more of my customers are loving this idea. They don't have to clean their house or buy any food. Oh sometimes the organizations sell food/snacks (that's them not us).
I hope this explains better, please feel free to ask any questions.