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Fundraising UpdateFebruary 2010
Bruce Meat Orders
All orders have been submitted and will be delivered for pick on Saturday February 20, 2010 between 10AM - 1PM, West Side of Arena (Community Centre Side). All Players/Parents are responsible to pick up all the orders they sold, please makes arrangements for someone else to pickup if not available. A couple volunteers are needed from 9:45 to 12:45 and one from 10:15 to 1:15 would be great (3 credits). If interested please contact Bruce Read (bruce.read@ildertonminorhockey.com). Congratulations Jets this very successful and tasty fundraiser appears to be both popular and beneficial for the players of IMHA again.
Monday March 15th – Spring Gear Cleaning
Local businessman Joe Walker, of Walker Hall, has approached IMHA to help us with our stinky and in certain cases unhealthy hockey equipment. Joe’s company Fresh Defense was recently profiled in the London Free Press Business section showcasing his equipment and unique disinfecting process used by most NHL teams. On Monday March 15th Joe will be set up at the Arena (7-9PM) to accept equipment being dropped off to be cleaned. For $30 your gear will be cleaned and ready for pick up the next evening with a portion of sales being donated to IMHA. See the attached information for more details about the sanitizing procedure and put Monday March 15th on your calendar to drop off your equipment to be cleaned.
Fundraising Credits
With the final fundraising completed an updated listing of fundraising credits outstanding is now posted at the arena and details for each family can be obtained via their fundraising rep. Remember that the goal is to contribute/work off 5 credits of fundraising per player during the season. The posting of credits at the arena displays the number of credits remaining so if your family shows zero credits outstanding, your obligation has been met. Zero is good.
Go Blue, Go Bald!
Update: With IMHA supporting the Make A Wish Campaign of Go Blue Go Bald, support has been fantastic. At the time of this writing, the PeeWee LM Boys team and two PeeWee girls, Jenny Zupancic & Nicole Shea are actively participating and have raised over $4000. With such a great example set by these few 11 and 12 year old players perhaps other teams/players can find a way to help support such a worthy cause. I am available, complete with blue hair, to speak to players/families about the campaign and how to get involved. Teams can join in, register their own team or donate through the Make A Wish website at www.makeawish.ca/gobluegobald/
Banquet Coordinator Volunteer
Looking to help out with the IMHA banquet? IMHA needs volunteer(s) to coordinate the annual banquet. Ray Filson, the past organizer, will help anyone interested to pull off this years event. According to Ray the event is only a few coordinated phone calls and a couple of hours to put it together. If interested please contact Ray Filson at (519) 666-2009.
Each player within the Ilderton Minor Hockey Association (IMHA) is required to assist with fundraising. This fundraising component is a way to help keep costs down for families and allows for credit/acknowledgements of volunteers for work done benefiting our players. Each player at the beginning of the season is given the obligation of working off 5 fundraising credits before seasons end. These credits are secured with a $100 posted dated cheque at registration. If at the end of the season the fundraising credits have been worked off, the cheque is destroyed.
Credits are tracked by player and summarized by family. This way the total number of fundraising credits earned by family members is subtracted from the total number fundraising credits assigned at the beginning of the year, leaving any remaining balance of credits owed. For example: if Billy Smith and Suzy Smith both played hockey they each would be assigned 5 fundraising credits to be worked off during the season. The family total fundraising obligation would be 10 credits. If the Smith Family donated items for the silent auction earning 6 credits and sold beef orders earning 4 more credits, their total would be 10 credits. The Smith Family’s fundraising obligation has been met and both fundraising cheques would be destroyed at season’s end. The goal of each family is work off their obligation and have no credits owing at season’s end. Statements posted in the arena and on the website during the season will show the balance of what’s owed. Working down to 0(zero) is the goal.
During the course of the season, there are several fundraising events/opportunities where you can donated your time and/or items to work off your credits. These events include:
Volunteers are needed to staff an information table at the photo day Sunday October 18th, 2009 at the Ilderton Community Centre. Volunteers will sell IMHA hockey related materials like pins, socks, old jerseys, etc during their two hour shift they sign up for. These volunteers will receive 2 credits.
A coordinator for this event is also needed to ensure the event runs smoothly. This volunteer would be required to open and close the event and be available to respond to problems if needed. Also required would be to help set-up and bring inventory of items to be sold as well as help to clean up/close the event and provide an accounting of the events sales. Help in this role of course would be provided along with any materials needed for the day. The photo day coordinator would receive 4 credits.
This is IMHAs number one fundraising event during the season. Volunteers for this event receive 2 credits for:
This large and important event also requires two specific coordinators to make certain it operates efficiently. A food coordinator (4 credits) is required to decide and manage the food to be served at the auction. Two Auction coordinators (5 credits each) are needed to run the overall event including the bar and front door. Support from past volunteers for these coordinators will of course be provided.
A donation for the auction is the number one way families work off fundraising credits. Donations are assessed a fair market retail value and credits are earn at a rate of 1 credit per $25 donated. This is a great opportunity for employers to donate items to be auctioned and families can earn the credits.
Association members (parents of players) attending the auction also receive ½ credit each for just attending the event.
During the month of January information and order forms are given to all families to solicit orders for beef products available through Grey West Beef Products. This campaign allows families an opportunity to ask family, friends and neighbours to purchase excellent beef merchandise and work off fundraising credits at the same time.
Each team is required to have a fundraising rep who attends approximately 2-3 meeting during the season to collect/drop off information and or items on behalf of their team. This role is very important to disseminate information to all families of IMHA and each rep receives 1 credit for each meeting attended.
Each coach is given personally 5 credits for their contribution as coach. Each coach is also given 5 credits to share with team helpers and/or parents who have helped out in some capacity with/for the team.
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