Take That Tickets to raffle - advice please

sonicshelly

Hi, I have been donated 2 Take That Tickets for Wembley in July to raffle or auction.

This is to help raised funds for my cousins daughter, Chelsea Knighton who is 3 yrs old and has Neuroblastoma. Her family want to take her to America for treatment that offers a better survival rate and less invasive treatment. She has stage 4, which is more difficult to treat and cure.

Anyway, I am thinking of raffling the tickets and wanted some advice. Are normal cloakroom tickets ok to use, or should I be using something more formal like the proper raffle tickets you can get done - but involving more cost????

What should I charge for a ticket? The person who donated them, suggested £5-£10, but I am wondering if that is asking too much. But I also think £1 is quite low, but maybe you could sell more???? I really don't know, anyone able to help, have you been in this position before.

Thanks
Michelle

sarah1980

I would say £1. If you buy the cloakroom tickets they come in strips of 5, and a lot of people will be happy to buy a strip.

katkim

I wouldn't go to the expense of printing tickets, which is money away from your Cousin's daughter. I think cloakroom tickets will be fine as long as you've got their name/contact details on your half of the stub.

I would say £10 a ticket is too high, given the face value of the tickets. I would say £1-5 is fair, though. Maybe £1-£2.50 if they're general admission, but if they're seated and close to the stage then I would opt for a fiver.

helenshappyhens

Hi
unfortunately you would be unable to use cloakroom tickets due to the charity/fundraising laws. Anything like this has to include the charity number for the charity you are raising funds for etc. I would ask the charity concerned and your local council they will be able to help you. I know that you have to register the 'event' with them so that they know its legit.

Dont know how many tickets you were going to try and sell but a couple of Take That tickets on the flat floor at Wembley could command an ebay price of say £200+ perhaps that would get more money for your charity choice.

Just noticed that It may not be a registered charity as such that you will be raising monies for. I'd speak to your council, as I said. Has there been any newspaper coverage re your relative? That may be good to show your council.

sonicshelly

helenshappyhens wrote: »

Hi
unfortunately you would be unable to use cloakroom tickets due to the charity/fundraising laws. Anything like this has to include the charity number for the charity you are raising funds for etc. I would ask the charity concerned and your local council they will be able to help you. I know that you have to register the 'event' with them so that they know its legit.

Dont know how many tickets you were going to try and sell but a couple of Take That tickets on the flat floor at Wembley could command an ebay price of say £200+ perhaps that would get more money for your charity choice.

Just noticed that It may not be a registered charity as such that you will be raising monies for. I'd speak to your council, as I said. Has there been any newspaper coverage re your relative? That may be good to show your council.

Thanks for this, need to look into it. We do have a license to sell advance raffle tickets, but wasn't aware I would not be able to use cloakroom tickets.

I will get in touch with council and ask their advice, cheers.

No we aren't registered as we are only raising for one person, which is where we hit problems all the time. The council are aware of us as they let us hire a hall recently for a tabletop sale and were really helpful. Local newspaper have an appeal on their website and help with our appeal by putting stories/events in the paper.

Thanks again, good job I asked as I wouldn't have been aware of this, much appreciated.

Debt_Free_Chick

Definitely check with your local Council. I think raffles like this come under the Gaming Act - which is why you see those specially printed tickets, complete with the promoter's name and address. I can't remember the details now, but the Council will help you out. You might have to apply for a license but it's only about £30 and it means you can run endless raffles for a year.

From memory, you don't need the license if you sell tickets on the same day and at the same event as you make the draw. So if you had an event and decided to do a raffle at that event, then you can just use cloakroom tickets and you don't need a license. But if you want to sell tickets in advance of and/or separate to the event, then you need the license and the tickets must show the name and address of the licensee/promoter.

Check with the Council - just ask to speak to whoever deals with gaming licenses.

sonicshelly

Debt_Free_Chick wrote: »

Definitely check with your local Council. I think raffles like this come under the Gaming Act - which is why you see those specially printed tickets, complete with the promoter's name and address. I can't remember the details now, but the Council will help you out. You might have to apply for a license but it's only about £30 and it means you can run endless raffles for a year.

From memory, you don't need the license if you sell tickets on the same day and at the same event as you make the draw. So if you had an event and decided to do a raffle at that event, then you can just use cloakroom tickets and you don't need a license. But if you want to sell tickets in advance of and/or separate to the event, then you need the license and the tickets must show the name and address of the licensee/promoter.

Check with the Council - just ask to speak to whoever deals with gaming licenses.

Thanks - we have the license already, but Helenshappyhens mentioned having charity number on the tickets, which we don't have as we aren't a charity. So was confused !
Going to get together with the little girls mum and dad to look at the license as I am sure it will give the rules etc with it. If I only need to print name/address of our fund etc, then that is ok, hopefully we can get this off ground soon. Cheers

Debt_Free_Chick

Just found the Gambling Commission website which could be useful.

What you're planning counts as a "lottery" when you poke around on that site.

HTH

LittleTinker

If you are just wanting to raffle them off to friends and what have you at school £5 is too much.....but say £2 a strip of 5 is ok.

shirleytch

I worked on a raffle for charity recently and we did a restricted sale of 100 tickets at £5 each - that worked well.

Savvy_Sue

If you are only selling raffle tickets at one particular event and drawing them at the end, then I believe that cloakroom tickets are fine. If you are selling them in advance of an event then you need the licence and all the legal information printed on the tickets.