Baskets, tee signs and prize tables get paid for somehow. Without the businesses below, all of it would come out of members’ pockets.
Who backs the club
| Town Physio | $750 |
| BizzFitness | $250 |
That is the whole list, and it is published with the amounts on it because a club that asks people for money should be able to say where the money came from. The gear shops that back events with prizes are on the where to buy gear page.
For businesses
Backing us
A few hundred dollars goes a long way in a club this size: it is a basket, or the prize table for a tournament, or the tee signs on a course a few thousand people walk past every summer. Sponsors get their name on the course, in event material and here.
What the money actually buys
- A basket, which stays in the ground for a decade and gets used by people who have never heard of the club.
- The tee signs on a hole, carrying your name at the point where every single player stops and looks down.
- The prize table at a tournament, which is the difference between an event people enter and an event people travel for.
- A course work day — the chainsaws, the wood chips and the pizza for whoever turned up.
Who sees it
Six courses sit in and around Fredericton and three of them are free public parks, which means the traffic across them is not only club members. Five leagues run every week through the season, there are six tournaments a year, and the January round at Odell goes out as part of the city’s FROSTival. The club is a not-for-profit and nobody here draws a wage, so what you put in goes into the ground rather than into overheads.
If that is of interest, email frederictondiscgolf@gmail.com and we will send you what we do and what it costs. If you would rather back an event than the club, say so — that works too.
For players
Use them. A sponsor who hears “I came because of the disc golf club” is a sponsor who is still on this page next year, and that is the cheapest thing any of us can do for the club.