Fundraising Ideas for a Skating Club

Figure skating can be a challenging and expensive sport. Skaters need good skates, costumes, travel expenses and a venue at which to skate and practice. If you're looking for fundraising ideas for your skating club, a creative idea is sure to draw more attention. You could hold raffles or sell candy, but these ideas lack imagination and aren't about health and fitness. Fundraisers that are centered around your hobby attract attention and give your team additional skating practice.

  1. Skate-A-Thon

    • A fundraising Skate-A-Thon gives club members plenty of extra practice while receiving donations from sponsors for the number of hours or laps that they skate. Extend the participants beyond your skating club and allow community members to take pledges for their skating as well. You'd be surprised at how many people are willing to help a worthy cause at their own expense. In order to boost the profits from your Skate-A-Thon, you could also sell tickets for an open skate. You'll already have the skating facility booked anyway, so allow community members to test their ice skating skills. You may need to look into liability issues in case participants hurt themselves while skating; one way to get around this is to have them sign a waiver of liability before stepping onto the ice.

    Sell Skating Lessons

    • Often parents don't have the means to pay for skating lessons for their children. Your skating club could sell individual skating lessons to members of the community at an hourly rate. Club members may actually become better skaters as a result of the student becoming the teacher. Young children who think they may like to pursue skating as they get older are ideal candidates for these types of lessons. A commitment of a few sessions to see how the child likes skating will be much more affordable for parents than investing huge sums of money into a sport that the child may not even enjoy. Club members' parents may also be willing to allow their children to teach them a few skating tricks so they can learn for themselves just how challenging the sport is. Men in your community are likely to buy lessons for their girlfriends or wives who always wanted to try ice skating but never had the time or means.

    Frozen Turkey Bowling

    • This is a lighthearted fundraising event that is sure to draw much attention and many laughs. The community can purchase a chance to try to knock down pins with a frozen turkey. You'll need to establish lanes on the ice rink using a system of boards or blocks to designate each lane. You can use regulation bowling pins or fill plastic pins with sand to weigh them down. Check with your local supermarket to see if they'd be willing to donate frozen turkeys for your event or give you a discount for a large purchase. Make sure the turkeys you choose aren't too big so they can be handled by a variety of people. You may wish to provide frozen chickens or Cornish hens for children. You can solicit donations from local businesses to cover some of the cost and provide banners around the rink, much like at a baseball game. Points can be awarded for number of pins knocked down and you may want to have prizes for strikes. One simple option is to award the frozen turkeys as prizes. If you have other prizes in mind, then you can always auction off the frozen poultry to raise extra money.