Tournament Fundraiser

First the particulars:

Revenue
$460.00 Tournament Fees
$316.00 Raffle+Entrance fees+food sold
$776.00 Total

Expenses versus Revenue

$507.93 Total Tournament Expenses
$776 Total Revenue
$268.07 (Revenue - Expenses)

Narrative:
The last tournament fundraiser we had saw us making about the same with less participants and spectators. The reason for this is we had less expenses at the time and had better paricipation from our own students. Total, we had 4 students from our two clubs pariticipate in the tournament compared with 20 for our in house one in February. Although this was an open tournament and we were able to have 23 total participants and 41 spectators this past Saturday (which made up for the shortfall for our own students not coming), I am disappointed we didn't get the support I was hoping for from our students.

A parent made the (correct) comment that we should not be talking to the kids about supporting our non-profit venture and talk to the parents. The thing is, we did talk to all the parents we could and even handed out flyers with information on the tournament and the reason for it.

On the positive side, we had a few students come to watch the tournament and support us by paying their spectator fee.

One of the things I knew was going to happen is the lack of a lot of competitors because we could not allow sparring at the tournament due to the By Laws of the HUMADAOP Youth Center stating: 'no sparring/fighting allowed on the premises'. The Program Director stated that maybe we could convince the Executive Director to allow it in our next venture. I will have to talk to them about it next time.

In summary, we did not lose money and made over $268 for the program. That's a plus. The downside is we did not get as much support as I would've liked. The sadder part was our own students were the ones that didn't support us as much as I would've liked.

Next tournament we hope to make bigger and better with much better participation and sparring. Hopefully we can convince more of our own to help.

We have a demonstration tonight and one on Saturday. I hope some of you will step up to help us show our wares and drum up participation for the program.

Osu.