SouthlandR

SouthlandR brings a new approach to fundraising.

Collaboration
Usually community groups like netball clubs, fire brigades, swimming pool committees and school PTAs fundraise alone and find the process difficult. By joining with other groups, the combined committee has the benefits of combined strengths:

- More people power around the table to spread the work load
- The best fundraisers from each group all together; the cream of the crop around one table
- Wider networks into the community meaning more clients to sell to, more business sponsors and wider
audience pull

One of the subtle benefits of collaboration is relief for the hard worker in your group who typically shoulders the major burden of a fundraiser to exhaustion and burns out. Collaboration shares the workload and the leadership to keep your best people fresh and motivated.

Tired of cheese rolls, scratchie boards, quiz nights? Let’s bring some imagination, novelty and fun to fundraising.

The Flyer pits two neighbouring suburbs, towns or districts against each other with stage challenges to test strength, brains, comedy and performance, interspersed with auction items making a compelling combo of humour, entertainment and fundraising. See more.

Fundraising is often left to the dedicated few because people just don’t have the time. But what if you asked your members for just one hour and in that hour they made $3,000? The Charity Sales Challenge aligns your group with a top sales business and together you have one hour to sell a product that is only revealed 30 minutes before start of sales, competing with other teams for top sales status. That’s fast and furious fun!
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OK, it’s fun and easier to work together on fundraisers, but what is this all about? It’s not about the money. The collaboration is the end goal, the fundraising is a by-product, a prompt to come together. The relationships that are built are the true gold, the collaborating communities.

Instead of working in isolation, groups and whole communities come together to co-operate - combining people power, resources and networks to run one large effective fundraiser replacing multiple smaller events.

The groups and communities meet again after the fundraiser to synchronise their annual events and fundraisers, promote each others projects and decide on a combined fundraiser that supports the most compelling community causes at the time.

By now the interaction among members has built strong relationships and the focus broadens from fundraising to wider social issues including how to make transient members of the community welcome.