More Raffle Prizes That Never Were!

For the busy fundraiser, drumming up suitable donations for your organisation’s prize draw can be a time-consuming element of the job. Bumping elbows with the bigwigs, drumming up sympathy for the cause. Courting your monied supporters can get tiresome. Perhaps you have some valuable prizes right there in your own home. You can start printing your own Raffle Tickets even sooner once you know what you’ll be raffling.

• Your child’s macaroni collage: It’s priceless! The only question is, can you bear to part with it? It’s for a good cause, you know!
• Pile of comic books: Your spouse swears “they’ll be worth something someday.” Why not today?
• Collection of old tins from back fence According to Grandfather, these are genuine antiques! Suitable for target practice.
• How about a nice shrubbery? There’s loads of them just growing by the side of the road. Bring your own shovel.
• Chance to win more Raffle Tickets You could get quite a bit of mileage out of this one. No shortage of prizes, no end to the fund raising possibilities.

Of course, you’ll need to make all these decisions in advance prior to printing your Raffle Tickets. Must abide by the law, after all. Your supporters will thank you for it, and so with the Gaming Council!

Happy drawing!

I know you tried. You wanted to make money, brand your organisation, and spread your message to the world. What went wrong?

• 10: Should not have printed “All proceeds go directly to bailing Mum out of jail…again” directly on the body of the Raffle Ticket
• 9: Sponsors misunderstood donation request, were under the impression they would all be getting free cars
• 8: Confounded everyone by printing your text in black on a black Raffle Ticket
• 7: Your 4-year-old mistook your collection of Raffle Ticket stubs for confetti
• 6: Next time, don’t store Raffle Tickets in the same area where you store sensitive documents for your assistant to shred
• 5: You delegated the job of ordering Raffle Tickets to your illiterate chav nephew
• 4: You delegated the job of selling Raffle Tickets to your agoraphobic auntie
• 3: You neglected to delegate the job of selling Raffle Tickets to anyone in your organisation
• 2: Your top prize of a brand new rubbish bin was not as big of a draw as you’d anticipated
• 1: You forgot to browse the design gallery at UKTicketPrinting.co.uk!

Ready for success in fund raising and strong Raffle Ticket Sales? Print your own Raffle Tickets with designs that fit your budget and sense of style and start selling more tickets in less time!

If you’re worried about fund raising with raffle tickets, relax. It’s not foolproof, but you can handle it with a little advance preparation. Even before you start printing and selling your raffle tickets, you need to know what you’re getting into.

Short on prizes? Run a cash raffle starting with next to no capital. Just set your ticket price high enough and turn a small investment into a huge return. I would usually earmark about 30% of minimum ticket sales for prizes, leaving my organization with most of the profits. You’ll still give thousands of pounds back to your investors!

If you’ve got some good connections in the community, you can ask local businesses to donate prizes. Spa days, restaurant gift certificates, or small handicrafts let you help area merchants with more exposure while you earn more money. For charitable fund raising, most business owners are happy to help out. You can even print their business name right on the raffle ticket!

Of course, if you have big donors, you can raffle off the big-ticket items, the tellies and the new cars. Or, if a celebrity favors your cause, you could be the lucky one to raffle off an iconic dress or autographed artefact.

Raffle prize possibilities are everywhere. Keep looking!

…that I love the idea of raffles. What you’re selling when you sell raffle tickets is, essentially, hope. It might look like you’re selling a brightly-coloured bit of paper, or a chance to win a guitar signed by Pete Townshend, or an all-expenses paid trip to Majorca, but really, what you’ve got there in that little stapled booklet or fat roll of tickets is possibility and anticipation. That’s why raffle tickets basically sell themselves, especially if you’re selling them for a charity. What could be better than donating a few quid to a good cause and getting to carry a slip of hope around in your pocket for a couple weeks?

Maybe you win a big screen HDTV. Most likely you don’t. The important part is the thrill of the expectation. That’s why I would always try to find the right raffle ticket. If the big prize were an island getaway, I would want a luscious picture of tropical palms on the raffle ticket, to remind people to dream big. If the prize were a new car, you can guess what kind of design I would look for. Or, if I wanted to raise money for an important cause like breast cancer research, a pink ribbon ticket would be a reminder not only of the possibility of winning a raffle prize, but also the possibility of helping to find a cure.

That’s the main reason you want to customise your raffle tickets rather than buying generic tickets. You can find a design that suits your needs and a ticket template that lets you remind patrons what they’re really buying.

So, until next time, keep your hopes up!