Sample budget

planeles · Joined: 16 Apr 2011 Posts: 7

In the summer of 2012, I am organizing a KCBS sanctioned competition. The organization which may be sponsoring it is looking for an actual budget from other competitions. If you willing to share your actualy budget with me such as spreadsheets or other documents, I would appreciate it. Please let me know how much you typically garner from local businesses as a donation for the event as well. You can email it to planeles@yahoo.com. Thanks for any information. Happy smoking!

SoEzzy · Posted: Apr 16 2011 Post subject:

I've been part of a committee that have and do run a couple of contests a year, but as such we don't really have a budget.

Sounds strange let me explain.

There is a prize payout that determines the prizes.
Portapotty, generator, we get taken care of as single payment to a firm that works with us year after year as a personal deal to a friend of long standing.
Grease pick up, and ice drop off are provided are provide by companies that supply them.
Ash collection is by member volunteers.

Just about everything else is put together on a volunteer basis.

Things that could or should be added, paid advertising, radio, TV, newspaper, internet, posters in stores, most of these are done on "a know a friend basis", but they should be worked at paid and get a bigger bang for the buck.

Let me know how specific you want to go and what you are wanting information on, and if nobody else comes back at you I'll try and hook you up with the information.
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txluke · Posted: Apr 20 2011 Post subject:

Our group puts on 2 IBCA cooks a year. We don't have a budget. Most of the things we need we first try to get donated. Sometimes we have to lay down the cash and get it ourselves. We use our cook-offs to raise money for people in need. It may sound bad but we always try to pick someone that has a lot of friends and family that will help out. If you pick someone that is "all alone" it is harder to get donations and people to come out and help. The last cook-off was awesome. The man that we were raising money for had tons of friends and family that donated almost everything we could need. The auction raised over $40,000 and the entire cook-off pulled in over $60,000. One of our first fundraisers was for a guy that had no support system and we ended up having to buy everything ourselves and didn't raise much for him. It is hard to make a budget when you don't know what you will have to pay for.
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