One of the key elements to running a successful program is to have enough funds to support your plans. Here, we describe our primary annual fundraising campaign, and we operate our own E-Store, where we help you find great gift ideas and you help BDUTroop to raise special project funds, just by clicking away.
Each Spring, BDUTroop, together with the rest of Seneca District, helps raise the funds which support our camping and other activity programs through our annual Home and Garden Product Sale.
Each year we operate this campaign as follows:
- Group Committee obtain permission from our sponsor - the town of Baie d'Urfe - to conduct a door-to-door sales campaign.
- A few generous volunteers meet with representatives of the other Groups in the District and several product suppliers, and negotiate a products and price list, largely based on home gardening products (grass seed, fertilizer, sheep manure, etc..), and increasingly incorporating other products (including golf balls, fire detectors, etc..).
- Flyers are printed-up and routes are planned and allocated to our youth members.
- The youth take responsibility for conducting the door-to-door campaign, helping their customers to select the best products for their needs, and collecting their orders.
- "Group captains" are designated from amongst the parent volunteers, and the captains coordinate the collection and collation of orders from the youth.
- The order information is compiled and submitted to the suppliers, and a week later the order arrives at our distribution point (the local curling club parking lot)
- BDUTroop camps-out with the goods, on the Friday night; helping to discourage any "unscheduled attrition", and helping to organize the goods into piles, by route order list, the next morning.
- On the Saturday, the parents drive their youth and deliver the goods directly to their customers' homes.
This campaign requires an enormous concentrated effort from a small group of dedicated volunteers, to orchestrate, and a small effort from the collective membership of the movement in our District.
The net result is usually in the order of several thousand $ profit, each year, for BDU Group - enough to help us purchase tents and camping supplies, supplement camping fees, purchase leader uniforms, books and training, pay leader registration fees, supplement youth registration fees, and still save up for special projects like transportation and registration fees for Jamborees.
Everyone can also help BDUTroop raise funds year-round, by shopping at the BDUTroop E-Store
Last updated: 9 April, 1999
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