Just a quick request for advice from you knowledgable lot! I've been spending my spare time off work organising a reunion for a local disco that served us well as youngsters - the Lamh Dhearg - a dismal GAA club you can imagine the scene, but the source of great teenage memories non the less!

It has now turned into a fundraiser as the club didn't want to take any money and I certainly don't want to take it! However, we now have DJ costs and bouncers etc to pay so we are selling tickets at £5 each but the room only holds 200 people.

I've been told these do's normally have ballots, with a few prizes and that tends to bolster the funds but I've no idea how to go about getting any freebies as such??!

Obviously, my other half is a head chef so I can arrange say a meal for 2 in the Glenowen and the DJ said he knows someone who has a signed football shirt that he doesn't particularly hold dear, but basically I just wondered had anyone done this before and do you have any tips?

I will ask local businesses but I don't have "connections" which I think is how you get things, from friends who maybe get sent equipement or bribes from suppliers etc! My Mum's boss get loads like cinema tickets and stuff but he has 5 kids so they tend to get the lot lol

Any help is as always very much appreciated guys...

Lx

Just approach the local businesses, face to face, and tell them what you are doing, and be brass necked and ask them what they cn offer you as prizes to give away.

Make sure they know they will be credited as the donator.