3 November 2026 · The Entrypoint team
Search for fundraising advice as a camogie or LGFA volunteer and you'll find content written for county-championship GAA clubs with bar takings and 2,000-seat stands. Most ladies' clubs run on a different reality: smaller gate income, no clubhouse bar, and the same handful of volunteers doing everything. Here's what actually worked for two camogie clubs this year — with the numbers.
Barryroe, a rural West Cork camogie club, ran a World Cup Last One Standing in summer 2026 — members paid €10, picked teams through the group stage and knockouts, and the last one standing took the prize. It drew 348 entries: roughly €3,480 in entries for a club whose whole parish isn't much bigger than that number. That's the point worth dwelling on — the entry link travelled far beyond the playing membership, to parents, grandparents, neighbouring parishes and emigrants, because a €10 pick competition is something anyone can join from anywhere.
St Rynaghs, an Offaly camogie club, ran an Open Championship 2026 Golf Major Pick — 69 players at €10, each picking four golfers across ranking tiers with a captain and best-three-scores-count. A week-long burst of fundraising and leaderboard-watching with no event to organise, no pitch needed, no catering. There are four majors a year plus a Ryder Cup; that's five of these a year if a club wants them.
They don't depend on facilities. No bar, no gate, no function room required — the fundraiser lives on phones. Whole-community entry. A camogie club's natural fundraising base is bigger than its membership: families, past players, the diaspora. A shared link reaches all of them; a ticket book doesn't. Tiny volunteer load. Run online, the weekly work is one promotion post — this matters most in clubs where the committee are also the players, coaches and lift-givers. And they're genuinely fun, which is what makes the second competition bigger than the first.
These are the patterns that work for clubs of this profile — copy them directly. Put the entry link in every team's parent WhatsApp group, not just the club page (parents are the volume). Ask each panel member to forward it to three people outside the club. Post the countdown three days before entries close — the deadline drives most entries. During the competition, post eliminations weekly ("214 entered, 61 still standing") — it's the content people actually share. And ask a local business to sponsor the prize in exchange for the weekly name-check: the prize then costs the club nothing.
Template announcement: "[Club]'s Last One Standing is live! €10 in, pick one team a week, last one standing wins €[prize] — every entry supports [purpose]. Anyone can play, anywhere. Enter here before [date]: [link]"
A Last One Standing tied to the Premier League season is the natural first competition — it launches in August and runs for months. How the format works → · What clubs raise → · Set yours up free →