The season major raffle
A boat, bike, holiday or cash from a sponsor, a $10 ticket with packs, eight weeks, drawn at the grand final or presentation night. Median $9,400 across 435 raffles over $5,000.
The Club Major Raffle, by the numbers
For sporting & community clubs
Club raffles, built on two thousand of them
Footy and netball clubs, cricket and surf clubs, Rotary, Lions and the RSL have been running raffles on RaffleLink since 2016. This page is what the numbers say about all of them, so the committee can plan the season raffle from evidence rather than habit.
Used by
2,100+ club raffles run on RaffleLink
$10M raised by sporting and community clubs
$2,000 raised by the median club raffle, from 66 buyers
98% of club raffle sales now arrive online
What raffles of each size look like
Pick the total you are aiming at and read across. A raffle that clears $5,000 is not a $2,000 raffle sold harder: it runs on a $10 or $20 ticket, over eight weeks rather than five, to a crowd two to three times the size. Full tables in club raffles by the numbers.
| Raffle size | Buyers | Typical ticket | Days on sale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under $2,000 | 43 | $5 | 29 |
| $2,000–$5,000 | 85 | $5 | 38 |
| $5,000–$20,000 | 167 | $10 | 53 |
| Over $20,000 | 407 | $20 | 88 |
Medians for each band. Committees turn over and the raffle often goes with them; the clubs that keep it as a fixture keep the buyer list and the sponsors too.
An event beats a week
The grand final raffle raises more than a Christmas raffle in five days, from fewer buyers, because everyone is in the same room with a reason to spend. Median results by occasion, where the raffle’s title says what it was for:
| Occasion | Raffles | Median raised | Top quarter | Buyers | Ticket | Days on sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christmas raffle | 212 | $1,800 | $3,400 | 68 | $5 | 32 |
| Gala, dinner or ball | 159 | $2,100 | $3,500 | 73 | $5 | 27 |
| Major / annual raffle | 130 | $2,000 | $5,400 | 68 | $5 | 44 |
| Season raffle | 33 | $1,250 | $3,100 | 62 | $5 | 33 |
| 50/50 | 30 | $1,700 | $2,300 | 56 | $5 | 14 |
| Grand final raffle | 13 | $2,700 | $4,900 | 57 | $10 | 5 |
| Golf day | 8 | $3,500 | $6,100 | 78 | $5 | 52 |
The prize a club crowd actually wants
Below the car tier, the best-performing club prize is a boat, a motorbike, a quad or a ride-on mower: five times a hamper raffle at the median, on a $10 ticket. They are also the prizes a club’s own sponsors can supply at cost. Cash is a strong second where it is permitted (not in Victoria, where a sponsor-voucher ladder does the same job).
Nearly two-thirds of club raffles charge $5 or less, and the buyer count barely changes with price. Move to $10 with a pack.
| First prize | Raffles | Median raised | Top quarter | Ticket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hamper or prize pack | 236 | $1,100 | $1,800 | $3 |
| Holiday or accommodation | 334 | $2,600 | $5,400 | $5 |
| Cash | 187 | $2,600 | $6,000 | $10 |
| Boat, motorbike, quad or other vehicle | 111 | $5,400 | $13,000 | $10 |
| Car or ute | 30 | $14,000 | $52,400 | $20 |
Formats that work for clubs
Most clubs settle on a season raffle with a real prize and a one-night raffle at the event that ends the season. The rest is how they sell.
The one-night raffle
Grand final, presentation night, the Christmas party. Sold in the room with Tap to Pay and a QR code on the screen, drawn before the speeches. Five days, more than a Christmas raffle.
How a dinner raffle took $40,600 in one night50/50
Half the pool to the winner, half to the club, with the prize growing on the screen as tickets sell. Built in on RaffleLink, with the state rules (and the Victorian cash exception) handled.
50/50 raffles on RaffleLinkPaper and online in one draw
Some of the club will always want a book at the bar. Hybrid draws merge paper and online tickets, weighted fairly. About 24% of club raffles run this way.
How hybrid raffles workEvery player a seller
A tracked link for each player, parent or committee member, and a leaderboard on the clubhouse screen. The season raffle becomes a competition the juniors want to win.
Team sales trackingSponsor-supplied prizes
Only 11% of club prizes credit a sponsor. The marine dealer, the bike shop and the mower shop already on the fence are the prize budget.
Sourcing prizes from sponsorsHow clubs sell
98% of club raffle money arrives online, and the rest is the bar, the gate and the odd paper book, all in one draw.
Tap to Pay at the bar and the gate
Ticket Booth turns a volunteer’s phone into a card terminal. No float, no cash tin, and every sale lands in the same draw as the online ones.
The newsletter and the group chat
One link in the club email, the team WhatsApp and the Facebook page does most of the selling. Members buy on their phone in a minute.
Ticket packs
Three for $25, ten for $80. 59% of club raffle orders are a pack and the average order is $34.
Drawn on the night, published to everyone
Draw live at the event or let the platform draw automatically. Winners are notified and results published either way.
The Ticket Booth app · Check the permit position for your state · How compliance works on RaffleLink
Community organisations, by kind
Service clubs, parishes, brigades, show societies, Scouts and arts groups each run raffles a little differently. Three patterns from the table: churches get the most from a cash first prize ($5,400 median), show societies from the district car raffle ($74,500 median across 4), and CWA branches from a $2 ticket sold to hundreds of buyers over three months.
| Kind of organisation | Raffles | Median raised | Top quarter | Buyers | Typical ticket | Days on sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rotary, Lions & service clubs | 178 | $1,700 | $3,400 | 56 | $5 | 50 |
| Arts, music & theatre groups | 74 | $2,300 | $5,300 | 74 | $5 | 48 |
| Churches & parishes | 59 | $3,500 | $6,200 | 83 | $5 | 48 |
| Fire brigades, SES, marine rescue & surf lifesaving | 57 | $2,300 | $6,000 | 70 | $5 | 38 |
| Scouts & Guides | 46 | $900 | $1,900 | 43 | $3 | 34 |
| Show, rodeo & agricultural societies | 32 | $2,300 | $5,400 | 71 | $5 | 41 |
| CWA branches | 19 | $6,500 | $8,400 | 258 | $2 | 82 |
Service clubs run the most raffles and the smallest, often a mower, a bike or a quad raffled to members; a holiday first prize lifts them to $2,000. The CWA row is seven branches, so read it as a pattern rather than a promise. The permit checker has each state’s position for every kind of organisation.
Club raffles, written up
Case studies and guides from the blog. New pieces appear here as they publish.
Case studies
How The Brisbane Dinner Raffle Raised $40,600 in a Single Night
At a gala dinner for MND, volunteers sold $24,750 of raffle tickets by tapping cards on their own phones, while a QR code on the tables sold most of the rest. What one night at The Star teaches about event raffles.
Product news
50/50 Raffles Are Here: The Prize That Grows With Every Ticket
RaffleLink now runs 50/50 cash-pot raffles natively: pick your split, set a guaranteed minimum, and supporters watch the prize pool climb in real time. No prizes to source, store or post.
Product news
Hybrid Raffles: Paper and Digital in One Draw
Combine paper and digital tickets in one fair, regulation-compliant draw — no printing thousands of online tickets, no separate draws, no headaches.
Start with the season raffle
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