Jukka KostiainenEuroSea VIII,

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Fundraising
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Agenda

• Intro 5 min
• Examples 20 min
• Work groups 20 min
• Results 15 min

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Background

• Why is fundraising needed?
• Sea Scouting requires expensive equipment
• Maintenance costs are high
• Costs to participants should still stay low

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Work groups

• A) Select a case
• Select an actual case (one of the members in the
  group has an actual case)
• Describe case shortly
• Opportunities
• Risks
• B) Gather experience from all the members in the
  group
• What means have been successful/unsuccessful in
  fundraising, why?
• What should be noticed when starting a project
• Organisation
• Time frame
• Motivation
• .
• Moral aspects
• Alternatives to fund racing
• Anything else you want to share

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Example s/y Navigator

• The boat
• Built in 1947 at Åbobåtvarf, Turku for Hans von
  Rettig
• Was donated to the Swedish-speaking scout
  district in 1980
• The district did not want to take the financial
  risk
• An association for maintaining the boat was
  founded
• The association maintains the boat and provides
  it to the districts disposal each summer
• First 18 years 50 000 miles and more than 500
  scouts

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Example s/y Navigator

• Peculiarities
• Association responsible for maintaining the boat
• Long project
• Big project
• A myriad of funding sources
• The project
• In 1996 something had to be done (new boat or
  old)
• Plans for 5-10 years ahead in time where made
• A project group was formed and a vote on what to
  do was taken
• The aim was to rebuild the deck, deck houses and
  other smaller repairs such as the electric system
• Most work was performed by a professional wood
  boat builder
• Some dismounting was made by scouts
• Main effort was on fund racing

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Example s/y Navigator

• Fundraising
• Few big or a myriad of small sources
• Decision to for many small sources
• Publications (with adds)
• History of the boat
• Calendar
• Clothing
• Donations
• Contributions from foundations
• Material donations
• Work, we moved e.g. a warehouse
• Member fees
• Charter sailing
• 10 cm mast shares for new main mast

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Example s/y Navigator

• Project schedule
• Start 1996
• Work started in 1.8 1997
• Work finished 5.6 1998
• Fist project finished in 1998
• Funding
• Own funds 15
• Project funding 30
• Swedish-speaking guides and scouts district 15
• External support 40
• Winter 1998-1999 keel repairs
• Winter 2000-2001 interior repairs
• Winter 2003-2004 new main mast (you could donate
  10 cm mast)
• Winter 2005-2006 the aft was rebuilt

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Example s/y Navigator

• Why has this model been successful?
• Association consists of generally older scouts
  who are not involved in daily scouting
• The people have a special interest to work on the
  boat
• Big contact network since the boat is the
  districts boat
• Clear and well defined projects, everything was
  not done at once
• Financing from all available sources

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Example s/y Navigator
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Example s/y Navigator
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Cautionary examples

• Fundraising takes resources from activities
  (Seaboys, funding by musical variety theatre)
• year members
• 1946 53
• 1947 63
• 1948 45 Svärtan is
• ordered at yard
• 1949 32
• 1950 22
• 1951 36
• 1952 41
• 1953 46
• Show took up all resource and
• activities suffered

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Cautionary examples

• Finland, 50-footer
• Almost ready for the past five years
• Too big a project compared to resource
• Not backed up by separate organisation