My First Car Show, Need some help!

[bigtyme1]

Originally Posted by uppster

It is a lot of work, you and the boys are making memories, good for you. O'Rielly's would be a good place to start. Hagarty's Ins has the windshield id cards you want. Let the boys do part of the going to local businesses to ask for donations, they need to do their part, and will probably get better donations than you.; Thanks for helping the Scouts.

Who would I contact at Hagerty to get the cards?
Thanks

[comp-spec]

Mark I'll give a donation for your show
Let me know what will help

[bigtyme1]

Originally Posted by comp-spec

Mark I'll give a donation for your show
Let me know what will help

Wow Pete its great to hear from you again, it's been a long time. Anything at all would be more then enough. I'll PM you my address. If you have any advertising you want me to add to my goodie bags let me know I'll be glad to spread the word for you.

[bigtyme1]

Thanks for all the help guys, I just found out tonight that My Trophy Guy back out of the deal we had and Now I'm paying for the trophys out of pocket. Original I had a guy that was giving me all the trophys free that he had left over from last years show. He decided to rebuild them and sell to a buddy of his with out asking me first. These Donation coming in are really helping me out. I gues I'm buying the first round in Vegas this year

[bigtyme1]

Hey guys I had the opportunity to go visit Pete's shop this week while in Boston. I got to tell he's got some great projects going on and the Orange crate is awesome up close in person. Thanks again, wish I had more time to spend with you.

[onevoice]

Originally Posted by bigtyme1

....... 50/50 is a given if I get the right crowd. I only have a 5 hour window to raise money so I'm not sure if we have time for a raffle too.

First of all, thanks for participating in scouts. I am a scout leader also and we could always use more volunteers willing to help.

You need to tread somewhat carefully with regard to fundraisers in scouting. BSA is very aware of their brand, and they have rules for any fundraiser that uses the good name and character of scouting to solicit funds. Selling raffle tickets or other games of chance is a direct violation of the BSA Rules and Regulations, which forbid gambling. They actually have guidelines and approval forms.

http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/34427.pdf

Your council may not be a stickler for such things, but you should be aware they exist. In general, scouts in uniform should never be used to raise money for another entity besides scouting. Make sure all you proceeds go to scouts.

If you are not a registered leader, and are just raising funds to make a donation to your sons Pack, the rules may not apply.

A car show would be a very good idea to do in conjunction with with your Pinewood derby.

My Pack only does one fundraiser, Popcorn sales. We work it pretty hard for a month in the fall, and this year raised enough to fully fund our Pack. It has the advantage of being something the boys themselves do, as opposed to a car show, which would have very little boy input. The popcorn sale fundraiser is also well tied into the BSA Indycar promotions. Dale Coyne Racing has a car promoting Scouting that ran the series last year driven by Sebastian Bordais, this year the driver is James Jakes. Our Council has sales goals that enable a scout to attend an Indycar race, a driver dinner, and have their picture taken in the car at Barber Raceway. Ten of my scouts got tickets to the race this year. Here's a pic of my son sitting in the car.




Good luck with your show, and make sure to update this post with your results.

[bigtyme1]

Well we had the car show this past week end and we did pretty good for the first show, about $1450.00 profit for the kids. unfortunatley there were 3 other shows the same day so I only had about 48 cars show up.And I had a sponsor that made some promises and never showed up. We still made out on the raffles and entry fees. The kids had a blast and I expect more people will show next time. Special thanks to all that helped out

Greg Weld for a wonderful Donation

Jason Rushforth for supplying me with lots of goodies for the shows, Jason reallt went out of his way to help me out.

Doug from MARCH PULLEY, Sent up a big box of flyers.

Shannon from Modo inavations for his donations.

Next year I plan to get bigger and get some more sponsors in time. Picking a date seams to be the hardest thing to do.

[camcojb]

That's great!

[GregWeld]

Good to hear Mark!

You learned some -- the boys learned some... and everyone had a good time!