Where can I do a charity raffle?

ChinUp_2

Don't know if anyone can help me?

I am raising money for my boyfriend who is running the London marathon for Action for Children. I have been collecting all sorts of things to use as prizes in a raffle (bought stuff in sales and people donated unwanted gifts etc).

I am stuck as to where I can hold a raffle? I just need somewhere that i can go to set up a stall/sell raffle tickets. Does anyone have any ideas? If I can't find anywhere soon I'll end up selling the stuff at a car boot but worried I won't raise anywhere near as much this way. I have some really nice things.

Thanks in advance!;)

Horace

You need to have a licence from the gamine commission before you can run a raffle.

However, you could have a tombola where you sell say a cloakroom ticket and put the other ticket into a pot and draw it out and they win a prize that way. Or you could put the stuff on ebay and sell it that way.

Is the money for your boyfriend or the charity? If its for the charity why not give the goods to them directly as they are bound to have ways of selling them. Your boyfriend could register on the website Justgiving (not sure if its a dot com business but if he googles it it will come up) and then anyone who wants to sponsor him can donate money through it.

ChinUp_2

Thanks Horace.

The money is for the charity - Action for Children. My OH has to raise a minimum of £1500 to run the marathon for them.

I will go down the Ebay or car boot route i think. I am hoping people will pay a bit more at a car boot when they see the items are new and all money will go to the charity. I'm a bit fed up of Ebay taking so much money from you with their fees and too many buyers not sending payment. It becomes quite a chore in the end.

Only £150 left to raise now so the pressure is starting to subside!

Anyone wishing to donate (& sadly we've found not many are!) can do so at
http://www.justgiving.co.uk/markoldfield

Thanks :j

Bryony48

Hi, what did you do to sell off the items in the end? I'm trying to work out the best way to do the same thing to raise money for my partner's Land's End to John O'Groats in six days cycle ride next month (the board won't let me post the link to his JustGiving page but he's riding in The Race Against Time for the Bishop Simeon Trust). A friend had a raffle in her local pub but we don't really have a regular one. I'm wondering if eBay might be better but there are lots of horror stories about it. Did you try the boot sale approach and did people pay over the odds if it was for charity?

Any advice would be welcome!

Cheers

Bryony