Bajanswife
Proud Parent
Last night at a committee meeting we were discussing how we are going to manage the funds that we are collecting to finance meet trips for the gymnasts. We are forced to travel to every meet (airfares and accomodation) so as you can imagine it gets expensive.
One member raised the point that it didn't seem fair that some of the team parents did lots of work for the fundraising and others did nothing, yet all of the team gymnasts had so far benefitted equally. We wondered if there was a fairer way to allocate funds, though a point system maybe?
We have 3 terms of our school/gym year, and we could do fundraising and allocation by term if that were easier. We would also have to allocate meet by meet, because not every gymnast attends every meet. And we'd have to be able to give "credit" for team parents who contribute more than others to the fundraising. We wondered if we could make a team roster mandatory for parents, where they'd have to sign up for something at the beginning of each term.
I'd love some ideas of how this is handled in other gyms!
One member raised the point that it didn't seem fair that some of the team parents did lots of work for the fundraising and others did nothing, yet all of the team gymnasts had so far benefitted equally. We wondered if there was a fairer way to allocate funds, though a point system maybe?
We have 3 terms of our school/gym year, and we could do fundraising and allocation by term if that were easier. We would also have to allocate meet by meet, because not every gymnast attends every meet. And we'd have to be able to give "credit" for team parents who contribute more than others to the fundraising. We wondered if we could make a team roster mandatory for parents, where they'd have to sign up for something at the beginning of each term.
I'd love some ideas of how this is handled in other gyms!