The Board of Directors London Rep Hockey Association Inc. appreciates your involvement and support of your child`s minor hockey experience. What can we do together to offset costs as much as possible?

The key to understanding all this is to accept that our Association is going to give our teams the freedom to raise funds in as many ways as possible. The most visible example, we have eliminated team corporate sponsorship (a company`s banner above the numbers on every jersey for one team) as it has been done in the past, giving each parent the OPTION of selling a sponsorship above the numbers and one below. We recommend a minimum fee of $225 per sponsor, however, if you can get more, great. At the minimum, it represents $450 towards offsetting your costs of playing Junior Knights hockey. If a sponsor wants to sponsor an entire team, feel free to have the banner on every jersey above the numbers, BUT the fee should be a minimum of $225 times the number of players on the team. Otherwise you are giving away valuable advertising space, at a discount.

Our best fundraisers-our teams- do the bulk of the fund raising. We see the job as an Association to give you the most freedom to raise the maximum amount of funds possible and thus helping minimize, as best as possible, your out of pocket expense.

That being said, there are two items you need to know.

1. All fund raising done on behalf of the London Jr Knights must have board approval. The Fundraising form is available in the Downloads tab.  This electronic template form can be e-mailed or faxed to your Convenor.

2. You can not fund raise under the London Jr. Knights name for more than your registration and team expenses.

We see fundraising falling into four distinct categories:

Individual Controlled Fund Raising

This is where parents raise funds for yourself specifically. A good example is selling an individual sponsor banner for the back of your child`s jersey.

Team Controlled Fund Raising

This is where the entire team works on a fund raising event, such as a car wash, event parking at JLC, or selling Krispy Kreme donuts. This is what our teams have shown us they are very good at.  In this case whatever money raised is divided up by the number of players on the team. If a family `ops out` (decides not to participate), then you divide the funds raised by the team by one less player and so on.

Association Directed Fund Raising

In certain instances the Association may launch a fund raising activity, which is designed to help individual parents raise funds. A good example is selling a book of raffle tickets you receive at the time of registration, or when your child makes a team. You buy the tickets from the Association as part of your registration and then collect your money by selling the tickets to friends and family. The Association creates the fund raising activity and the individual parent executes for their own individual benefit. The executive is working on some ideas that fall into this category. Please feel free to direct any of your ideas to our Special Events Director.

Association Controlled Fund Raising

In this case, the funds raised stay in the Association as funds over and above those collected from our members. This is needed to build up our reserves in the event we have a future need and to help offset overall costs of delivering our program.

The three tournaments we run, the Knights Alumni Golf Tournament, Direct Corporate Sponsorship for earmarked events, in-kind sponsorship are good examples of this. For the most part this type of fundraising is created and executed by the executive with specific help from the parents, (i.e. volunteering at the tournaments)

Last update: Wednesday, November 03, 2004