Entrypoint
Practical guides for club committees — running a Last One Standing, sport-specific fundraising ideas, and what clubs actually raise.
8 September 2026
Every GAA club fundraising list promises the same twenty ideas. What they rarely tell you is the volunteer cost — and for most clubs, volunteer hours are scarcer than donors. Here are twelve ideas ranked honestly by effort against return, with real figures where we have them.
3 August 2026
Most fundraising listicles ignore the one thing that decides whether an idea works for a football club: timing. A grassroots club's year has a rhythm — registration in summer, the long autumn slog, a Christmas lull, spring finals — and the best fundraising plan follows it. Here's a season-shaped plan for 2026/27, with honest effort levels.
26 July 2026
A Last One Standing competition (you'll also hear "Last Man Standing") is the simplest season-long fundraiser a club can run: members pay an entry fee once, pick one football team to win each gameweek, and can't pick the same team twice. If their team loses or draws, they're eliminated. The last member standing wins a prize, and the rest of the entry money goes to the club.
26 July 2026
If you're setting up a Last One Standing (Last Man Standing) competition for your club, the one document you genuinely need is a rules sheet everyone agrees to before entering. Here it is, free, no sign-up required.
26 July 2026
The first question every treasurer asks before bringing a Last One Standing to committee: what will it actually raise? Here are real figures from clubs running these competitions on Entrypoint, and the simple maths for projecting your own.