[maccawozzagod]

Right folks, I've been sitting on this one for quite a while now whilst trying to sort out whether we can do it, legal issues etc. Everything appears to be in order now so we can finally go public with it. On the 29th April we will be holding an open day/fun day at the club. Eric and Rob have okayed the date and venue, the police and LCC are happy with the venue and events. We want to put on as much as possible, funding may be available to pay for various things but in the main we need to organise things based on NOT paying for things unless we need to. This is what we have so far for ideas:

The open day is going to be huge. Plans now gathering pace in the ideas department and there is a good chance that we can secure thousands of pounds worth of external funding. The plans are coming together, the ideas are there, the funding is there, local businesses are starting to come round to our way of thinking and I have two additional printers onboard to make sure that flyers etc look thie biz. The club are happy at what is happening, the poilice seem happy, LCC seem happy. What I dont have is volunteers to help bring it together.

So far we have me, Spud, UK Cowboy, Kipax as definites. Rob Heys will help where possible and hopefully Mick Schultz will get hopefully get involved in an advisory capacity for H&S. Various from the OSC will man the various stalls and stuff.

What I need is people who can help bring everything together from planning to fruition. I can't possibly deal with everybody from start to finish so it needs sub-committees forming to bring the individual plans in.

CATERING - Burger vans, ice cream vans, pop stalls, possibly European Food Market.

GAMES - Beat the Goalie, wet sponge chuck thing, kiddies fairground rides

STALLS - Car Boot Sale, cubs/scouts/churches/schools/arts&crafts whatever, OSC merchandise, ASFC merchandise, ULTRA merchandise

TOURNAMENTS - Ultras v Legends, kids 5-a-side, Human Table Football, pool knockout, darts tourny
with special guest star (book Bristow or summat)

SOCIAL CLUB - We need an event to round the day off such as an auction or a comedian jacket event. Bear in mind it will be a Sunday so the typical late night type event would be a no-no.
There needs to be stuff going on during the day as well to keep people in the bar.

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT - Already planned are at least three bands who have volunteered their services to perform a gig. Preliminary idea is to have them on the terraces at the Accy end (closest end for unloading gear) and playing between events on the field so that folk can stand in the penalty area to watch). We could possibly get a radio station to do a roadshow on the day.

KIDS ENTERTAINMENT - Face painting, jugglers, fire eaters, MASCOT RACE (cheers Tony).

EXTERNAL STALLS - Army recruitment van c/w mini-assault course, poss building society/bank giving away freebies to the kids.



Thats eight basic areas that all need one volunteer to head up and chase people for. I aint got time to ring for quotes for every idea in each category and then compile cheapest/free-est/best quality etc. I need to know that if I want to find out how many stalls we have booked I can just ring ??? to find out. You may need to enlist a couple of mates to help you out, whatever.

This could be massive if I can get enough definites to help out. Banking on not spending a penny to secure the services of suppliers/acts etc but funds may be available closer to the time. But remember we need to budget things. I dont want to raise five grand for OSC on the day and then find that we owe 4.5k out on suppliers. We want people to pay us to be there. Stuff like Human Table football costs up to £600. So we would need 30 teams at £20 to break even on that, but it would be fun and would make for a really memorable day for everybody who takes part. BUt to try and recoup and maximise costs can we secure a sponsor for that tournament to provide a prize and cover some or most of the expenditure?

Companies have been falling over themselves to sponsor ASFC in some way, can we tap into that for this event? Does anybody know how to go about it? Everything we do can be sponsored so that when we send out invites for pubs/clubs/works to enter something it will have the name of that company on th etop of our professionally printed flyers. The RILEYS pool knockout, ASH's Scrapyard Car boot sale, Flights of Fancy Darts knockout Ma Scots' Mascot race, Burger Kings weightwatching Comp.

Please post your ideas and offers of help in the Open Day thread and leave this one alone.

Remember people that all money goes towards the club at the end of the day. I would like this one event to raise enough money to tarmac the car parks and turnstile entrances. I dont know how much that will cost but it will mean plenty of graft required.



So, what I need is people to put their hands up now for things. By the second week of January I want to have 10 people sat round a table putting things into place. Anybody?
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