Hey guys :)
My name is Lisa, I'm 3rd year industrial student, I realise that our meeting was a little late announced (sorry!) and that many people have classes. Is there a time when everyone is free? How is friday for everyone?
Anywho lovelies, here is a run down of what we talked about today, replies are good, suggestions are welcome!
- A party we sell tickets to, at a bar in Wellington. I'm in the process of contacting Rain, on Courtenay place into using their bar. People would buy their own drinks, but we'd provide a DJ (I think). If that fails, I know a few other places in town, like Syn etc. We had a few suggestions of themes; 90's music: the music we hate to love, the Mexico 'M' Party; costumes that start with M....(mechanic, maid, moon, monster...etc
- Buying bulk bottled water and relabeling them, selling them at uni ($2 a bottle or so). Could be good, conveinient http://www.aquaplus.co.nz/school_fundraising.htm
- Cadbury fundraisers; http://www.houseoffundraising.co.nz/products.htm or http://www.interworldfundraising.co.nz/FundraisingProducts/tabid/1926/language/en-NZ/Default.aspx
- Auction our artworks. I don’t know how many of you guys did art or photography at school, but we thought about auctioning them off. I don’t know if we want to sell only one piece each, or try sell multiple pieces each. We talked about having this at uni, or trying to have it at a place like Thistle hall. If we are going to try and get a lot of outside interest, we might have to have it in a more public place. A silent auction might be a good way to go (people write their bids down, and compete for the wining price, kinda like TradeMe, as other people can see what you are bidding)
However, if we are only selling a few, and you have more, I highly suggest you sell them on TradeMe, cause I know I will be! Artwork is selling surprisingly well on there at the moment
- Mini café – having a place where we can sell food items daily; I was thinking along the lines of soup, scones, muffins, cookies, pizza, cans of drink and slices. The emphasis would be on ease; easy for us to cook and prepare, and easy for people to access.
The soup would be my thing, we have a massive crock pot that we can keep it heated in. The other things are quite easy to make, and easy to sell. I kinda want to know who is willing to cook for this, and what you can cook. Things like slices are quite good, and cookies, because they last a long time. Scones and muffins are slightly more time consuming, and have to be fresh. I personally use a packet mix muffin, and it always comes out moist and yum (for muffins), so might be a foolproof way for people to get involved. Using packet muffins means that you just need to chuck in extras like frozen berries and chocolate chips etc.
Goldie suggested that maybe we do one off days instead, as this may produce more money for us? Like “cupcake day” or “nacho day”. Or we could incorporate this as one day a week with the café?
- Movie rental – hiring out a movie theatre, then selling off tickets ourselves, keeping the profits. I have known for this to work quite well, as they are new movies, and movie theatres can be quite generous about our profit cut
- Movie night at uni – using the lecture theatres to have our own personal movie screenings. I will have to check with Mark Shaw about this, as we would want it after classes until closing. We would have to clean. This gives us the opportunity to keep all the profits, and be able to control the price of the tickets. We could also sell snack food here. Get some beanbags to create more space.We could either do two screenings in one night, one movie each screening, or increase the price and make a night of it, and show 2 movies back to back. I also think if we were “good” they might agree to let us do more than one night, maybe one every few weeks, or once a month?
- Sponsored labour – sell ourselves. We made a lot of money stocktaking for a company, or filling envelopes etc. It would mean freeing up one day as a group, and going together to do a job for a business. It is normally boring as work, but it would only be one day. When I did it, we stuffed promotional material for election packs… I would have to find out places that did this, suggestions?
- Corporate sponsorship – trading something to get money out of a company. What can we give or offer? Logo’s on t-shirts overseas etc? Goldie suggested that we might try something about name affiliation; “Westpak Victoria university bi-annual OE” or something of the like, that organises future funding as well. We could give them footage of our trip for them to use in advertising, as well as using their name in any publications about the trip etc. Need ideas for this one.
- Selling glowsticks at the ball, or at parties etc; they cost 11-15c each, sell them for a dollar. Fun for parties, apparently sell quite well. If anyone has siblings at high school or school in general, suggest them for school disco’s, they sell so well! http://www.glowsticksltd.co.nz/?gclid=CIOl7PCu9pQCFRYcagodFQQPrg
- Oh it’s so been done, but BBQ. I need not say more.
- Raffle, is it worth it? Donated gifts
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