What is Play Fund Win?

Play Fund Win manages 5 data types including leads. Helps you organize, track, and share your work in 1 place for teams and solo users.

SECTOR — COMMUNITY GROUPS

Community Group Fundraising Ideas — village halls, social clubs, charities

Working men’s clubs, village halls, social clubs, neighbourhood charities. The fundraising formats your committee can actually run with the volunteer hours you have.

Village hallsWorking men’s clubsSocial clubsNeighbourhood charitiesCommunity trusts

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Your fundraising co-pilot · 30 seconds to a plan

Hi — I'm Robin. Tell me a bit about your cause and I'll suggest the right draw, ticket price and a realistic raise. Live in about 10 minutes.

Digitise what already works

100 Clubs, bonus ball, monthly raffles.

Bar-based selling

QR codes behind the bar convert best.

£15,000–£20,000 / year

For a 200-member village hall setup.

AGM-friendly reporting

Treasurer one-page summary on demand.

Top 5 formats

The formats that actually work

Curated from PFW's 27 fundraising formats. Each link goes through to a deep-dive on that format — what it is, how it works, what it raises.

DRAW FORMAT — 50/50

The 50/50 fundraiser — split the pot, fund your cause

A monthly cadence is the most efficient community-group fundraiser. Low volunteer load, predictable income, easy to explain at the AGM.

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DRAW FORMAT — BONUS BALL

Bonus Ball fundraisers — the classic UK club lottery

A working-men’s-club staple. Cheap weekly buy-in, syndicate feel, runs itself against the Saturday National Lottery draw.

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DRAW FORMAT — 100 CLUB

The 100 Club — numbered monthly draws, rebuilt

The classic village-hall fundraiser — 100 numbered memberships, monthly draws, decades of cultural familiarity. The format your members already understand.

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DRAW FORMAT — CASH PRIZE

Cash prize raffles — the prize everyone wants

Universal appeal across community demographics. £500–£1,000 cash prizes sell quickly to a 200–500 member network without needing a story.

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DRAW FORMAT — MULTI-PRIZE SEASONAL

Multi-prize seasonal draws — 8–15 prizes, season-long sales

Annual flagship raffle drawn at a summer fête or Christmas event. Sponsor prizes from local businesses, drawn at the moment everyone’s already there.

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Featured host

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Community-Led Fundraising

The biggest community-led organisation on PFW — 7-year anchor partnership. The model every village hall, social club and community group can adapt.

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On the platform

Running this on PFW

Verified Play Fund Win hosts running fundraising in this sector.

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parkrun

The biggest community-led organisation we worked with — 7-year anchor partnership

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Working men’s clubs

Weekly bonus ball and monthly 100 Club programmes

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Village hall trustees

Hall-rent funding through recurring monthly draws

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Neighbourhood charities

Mass-market cash prize raffles and seasonal multi-prize campaigns

Tactical tips

What works for this sector

The specific levers PFW hosts in this sector pull to outperform — drawn from real campaign data.

Tradition is your friend, not your enemy

Community-group members trust formats they already know — 100 Clubs, bonus ball draws, monthly raffles. Don’t reinvent; just digitise what already works.

Bar-based selling outperforms online for working men’s clubs

QR codes behind the bar convert at higher rates than email or social. Print a card-sized QR for the bar staff to point to.

AGM-friendly transparency

Community groups live or die on member trust. Robin’s automated reporting gives the treasurer a one-page AGM summary — every campaign, every payout, every fee.

Annual flagship + monthly base

A summer fête raffle as the year’s headline moment + a monthly 100 Club as the predictable base. Most successful village halls run exactly this combination.

Don’t exclude the older end of the membership

Print-and-collect entry slips for hand-collection at meetings keep the older end of the membership engaged. Robin’s page supports it alongside online entry.

FAQ

What this sector asks us most

How does this compare to traditional paper-based raffles?

Same mechanics, no float, no lost tickets, no end-of-night reconciliation, full audit trail. Most community groups find the volunteer-time saving is the biggest benefit — not the fundraising uplift.

Do we need a licence?

It depends on format. Bonus ball and 100 Club setups typically need a Small Society Lottery registration (£40 from your council). Smaller incidental raffles at single events may qualify under exemptions. PFW is not Gambling Commission licensed.

How do we handle members who don’t use smartphones?

Robin’s page supports printed entry slips alongside online entry. Bar staff or committee members can enter slips manually on a phone or tablet — same draw, same audit trail.

What about cash-based hand collections at the door?

Cash collections work for incidental event raffles. For recurring formats (100 Clubs, monthly 50/50s), going cashless saves so much volunteer time that almost every community group switches within a few months.

Can the village hall and the cricket club share a fundraiser?

Yes — many small communities run a single shared fundraising programme with proceeds split between multiple causes. Robin supports multi-beneficiary campaigns with separate ledgers per cause.

What’s a realistic raise for a 200-member village hall?

Illustrative ranges only — a £10/month 100 Club fully subscribed plus a £5 annual fête raffle raises £15,000–£20,000/year. The recurring base is the multiplier — the fête raffle is the moment.

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