Jonathan Sandford discusses how best to raise funds for HUST.
As we all know, to acquire 50% of our phoenix club
HUST have a target of £250k in five years and this can at first
seem a bit daunting.So daunting
in fact that it would be easy to think 'what difference can I make?'
Well let's break it down a bit.....
We are well on the way to 750 season ticket sales,
we may get even more, but let's say 750 will be the final, magnificent total.
£1 a week from
each of those committed people provides an incredible £39k a year which
totals £195,000 over five years, nearly 80% of the target.
Think about that
for a moment, almost 80% of our target achieved for £1 a week. It would be hard to not hit £250k with that
sort of start, and that's just what it is...a start, a fantastic virtually
match winning start.
There's also the prize draw, if don't buy a ticket
you can't win the raffle and there's nearly £3k up for grabs.
There's also supporters who are already making
regular donations and that some are for far more than £1 a week.
And I know there will be numerous other fund
raising events over those five years for us to get involved with.
But if we all
gave £1 a week then all of the other fund raising efforts and donations
would just need to raise £11k in each of those five years to get HUST over the line. Any more would be literally
money in the bank.
I know that's
over simplifying things and it's never going to be that easy and that I've made a few assumptions in
getting to that total. I've assumed
every one of the season ticket holders will be in a position to make that
commitment, but I've also assumed that nobody will commit to more than a £1 so maybe any errors in those two
assumptions will offset.
Maybe 500 will dig
deep and maybe they'll donate a bit more on average, say £1.50 a week and that's just as good as that
delivers exactly the same result.
You never know, it could be 250 donating £3 a week
that gets the same £195k but at the end of the day it
doesn't really matter. All that matters is that we all try to give
something on a regular basis, however much that may be, and that we maintain that commitment for five years.
If we don't, we may well be left with the sort of frantic last minute superhuman fund raising
effort that became all to common in
the last years of HUFC.
If we do, we'll have a significant share in the club we love and we'll
have helped provide financial stability for HFC, two things HUFC
desperately needed but didn't have. And all for a £1 a week, the sort of
money that you may not even miss if
it slipped out of your pocket and down the back of the sofa.
There's a link to the standing order form on here
and to donate the equivalent of £1 a week, set it up for
£4.33 a month, £1.50 a week is
£6.50 and £3 a week is £13 or more if you can.
Whatever the amount
you give it will be another small step towards the fans owning 50% of Hereford Football Club and can you
think of anything finer than that?