Our
program cost about $200,000 a year to operate, however
government funding makes up only a small fraction
of that amount. The band is even responsible for
the cost of school buses and bus drivers to attend
away football games and band performances. The vast
majority of our funding (about 87%) has to be privately
raised. Each band student is required to pay a minimum
of $475 participation fee for the 2010-2011 school
year, plus the Booster Club has to raise an additional
$85,000+ to fully fund our program. We will
have quite a few fundraiser's this year, and there
will be something that everyone can participate
in.
This year we got off to a fast
start with our first fundraiser of the 2010-2011
fiscal year being held on May 4th at the Pizza Inn
on Hwy 9. We had several parents volunteer
to wait tables and they donated all tips to the
booster club. Pizza Inn also donated 10% of
all sales to the booster club.
On May 8th Blvd Music allow us the opportunity to
sell concessions at the Blvd Music "Bugs and
Bands Event", a number of parents volunteered
to staff our concession booth and Coke provided
us with a concession trailer to use.
On
Thursday May 13th, we will be hosting the BSHS Powderpuff
and Word Record Attempt. The band boosters
will be sharing the revenue with the athletic boosters
and the student council. Admission is $5 at
the gate and we will be offering concessions.
On
Saturday May 15th we will kick off our booster club
membership drive at the mini-camp booster club meeting
where we will also be offering band apparal, laying
the groundwork for a spring and summer car wash,
and giving out sponsorship booklets. Our sponsorship
program is a great way for band families to get
a discount off their band fees and at the same time
to help provide the booster club with revenue.
For ever sponsorship over $100 the sponsor can identify
one student who will get credit for the sponsorship.
The student will have 50% of the sponsorship amount
credited towards his or her band fees (up to the
full $475.00).
On
May 28th we will ask for volunteers to help us "park
cars" at the BSHS graduation. The booster
club will be paid $1,000 for this service by BSHS.
Starting
in late July, we will offer band supporter shirts
to be sold at booster club meetings, the "Premier",
and all home football games. We will also
kick off our "Best of the Best" food products
brochure sale which typically brings the band upwards
of $4,000.
Beginning
in August we will be operating the "Bone Yard"
concession stand at all six home football games.
We will also be having various "restaurant
days" in which the restaurant will provide
the band with a percentage of sales between certain
times on those days.
On
September 25th we will be hosting the "Boiling
Springs Festival of Bands" which is one of
the largest high school band competitions in the
country. This is typically our largest fundraiser
and we need upwards of 200 volunteers for this event.
The second competition that we host will be the
South Carolina Band Directors Association 2A/4A
Upper State Championships on October 23rd, which
will have about 30 bands from all over the upstate
competing. Around the same time as the Festival
of Bands we will kick off our Fruit Sales fundraiser
selling citrus fruit from the Indian River area
of Florida.
During
the winter semester we will be having a hotdog supper
and auction, and the "Night of Jazz".
2009-2010
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