OSC Open Day.

maccawozzagod

maccawozzagod

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Right folks, I've been sitting on this one for quite a while now whilst trying to sort out whether we can do it, legal issues etc. Everything appears to be in order now so we can finally go public with it. On the 29th April we will be holding an open day/fun day at the club. Eric and Rob have okayed the date and venue, the police and LCC are happy with the venue and events. We want to put on as much as possible, funding may be available to pay for various things but in the main we need to organise things based on NOT paying for things unless we need to. This is what we have so far for ideas:

The open day is going to be huge. Plans now gathering pace in the ideas department and there is a good chance that we can secure thousands of pounds worth of external funding. The plans are coming together, the ideas are there, the funding is there, local businesses are starting to come round to our way of thinking and I have two additional printers onboard to make sure that flyers etc look thie biz. The club are happy at what is happening, the poilice seem happy, LCC seem happy. What I dont have is volunteers to help bring it together.

So far we have me, Spud, UK Cowboy, Kipax as definites. Rob Heys will help where possible and hopefully Mick Schultz will get hopefully get involved in an advisory capacity for H&S. Various from the OSC will man the various stalls and stuff.

What I need is people who can help bring everything together from planning to fruition. I can't possibly deal with everybody from start to finish so it needs sub-committees forming to bring the individual plans in.

CATERING - Burger vans, ice cream vans, pop stalls, possibly European Food Market.

GAMES - Beat the Goalie, wet sponge chuck thing, kiddies fairground rides

STALLS - Car Boot Sale, cubs/scouts/churches/schools/arts&crafts whatever, OSC merchandise, ASFC merchandise, ULTRA merchandise

TOURNAMENTS - Ultras v Legends, kids 5-a-side, Human Table Football, pool knockout, darts tourny
with special guest star (book Bristow or summat)

SOCIAL CLUB - We need an event to round the day off such as an auction or a comedian jacket event. Bear in mind it will be a Sunday so the typical late night type event would be a no-no.
There needs to be stuff going on during the day as well to keep people in the bar.

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT - Already planned are at least three bands who have volunteered their services to perform a gig. Preliminary idea is to have them on the terraces at the Accy end (closest end for unloading gear) and playing between events on the field so that folk can stand in the penalty area to watch). We could possibly get a radio station to do a roadshow on the day.

KIDS ENTERTAINMENT - Face painting, jugglers, fire eaters, MASCOT RACE (cheers Tony).

EXTERNAL STALLS - Army recruitment van c/w mini-assault course, poss building society/bank giving away freebies to the kids.



Thats eight basic areas that all need one volunteer to head up and chase people for. I aint got time to ring for quotes for every idea in each category and then compile cheapest/free-est/best quality etc. I need to know that if I want to find out how many stalls we have booked I can just ring ??? to find out. You may need to enlist a couple of mates to help you out, whatever.

This could be massive if I can get enough definites to help out. Banking on not spending a penny to secure the services of suppliers/acts etc but funds may be available closer to the time. But remember we need to budget things. I dont want to raise five grand for OSC on the day and then find that we owe 4.5k out on suppliers. We want people to pay us to be there. Stuff like Human Table football costs up to £600. So we would need 30 teams at £20 to break even on that, but it would be fun and would make for a really memorable day for everybody who takes part. BUt to try and recoup and maximise costs can we secure a sponsor for that tournament to provide a prize and cover some or most of the expenditure?

Companies have been falling over themselves to sponsor ASFC in some way, can we tap into that for this event? Does anybody know how to go about it? Everything we do can be sponsored so that when we send out invites for pubs/clubs/works to enter something it will have the name of that company on th etop of our professionally printed flyers. The RILEYS pool knockout, ASH's Scrapyard Car boot sale, Flights of Fancy Darts knockout Ma Scots' Mascot race, Burger Kings weightwatching Comp.

Please post your ideas and offers of help in the Open Day thread and leave this one alone.

Remember people that all money goes towards the club at the end of the day. I would like this one event to raise enough money to tarmac the car parks and turnstile entrances. I dont know how much that will cost but it will mean plenty of graft required.



So, what I need is people to put their hands up now for things. By the second week of January I want to have 10 people sat round a table putting things into place. Anybody?
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Macca,

Sounds good stuff:

Some initial thoughts:

1st SPACE: Car Boot sale Where?? if you put that on the Coppice car park early morning there will be not a lot of space left for other things. If you used the tarmac car park outside the offices, there's not a lot of space there.

Catering: currently the club "sells" the catering rights to an outside sourse. From memory i'm sure Rob Heys has said the deal runs out at the end of this season. So technically you shold be able to get a fee for the rights as the season will have ended.

You need to get Coley on board. Vital that the 1st team squad are present throughout the day.

Are you planning on having all the ground open?? Dressing room and boardroom type tours??

Vital that shop is open and well stocked. Season tickets need to be available for next season etc.

I'll have a word with the St. Johns people to ensure that they cover the event ( small fee may be payable)

I see your planning to use the pitch. Large numbers of people on the pitch!! What happens if we make the playoffs!!!:)

Seriously keep up the good work, we need to keep raising the profile!!
 
the present deal on the catering covers matchdays only, they have no divine right to be there whether they are contracted or not. Have spoke with Rob over this matter and they will get first refusal as it is a quality set up with a good range of grub. However if somebody with an equally good range offers fifty quid more to be there then they are in. Let the auctions begin.

As far as the boot sale is concerned, I haven't yet set anything in stone as we dont know what kind of response we will get. I envisaged having the boot sale running the length of the lane from Livingstone Road around the car park in front of the offices and up to the bollards for the clubhouse. It would be ideal as nothing else can really go on the lane and it leads the eye to the next event.

Club Shop - In an ideal world we will have season tickets on sale AND the new shirts that we will no doubt be getting. I'd like to think that after last seasons's last minute shirts we would be in front this time out, but end of April is very early. Maybe a prototype could be available and sell pre-orders on the back of it?

I have given Rob a few ideas as to what I would like the club to do for the event and guided tours was one of them. Rob, Coley and Eric in the stocks would be the best money maker of the lot as well!

St Johns Ambulance is a good idea, if you could arrange them it saves me a job. Just pass on the contact and a telephone number so I can log it.
 
Macca - re the wet sponge thingy, the Fire Brigade do a ducking stool type of affair with a rather large paddling/swimming pool. Hit the target and in the victim goes. As this is in my domain, I shall make some initial enquiries, but if you can get the emergency services on side, could do some Fire Safety type stuff - (Welephant - mascot race? Battery Bob etc) The whole thing should not cost a penny, but I dare say that the Fire Service will want to split money raised on this type of stall 50-50 between OSC and Benevolent Fund..
Will help out anywhere I can, and will draft Mrs Oz and Long Oz into the equation (under protest)
 
Macca,

You already know Im happy to pitch in, so let me know when the first 'planning meeting' is set for. Same goes for Sparkie btw!!
 
No idea what help to offer Mecca, I don’t want to make promises and not be able to make the commitment. I will help with ad hoc printing etc, and I’ll stump up for a bottle for the club house raffle if wanted.

It’s a fantastic idea and door opener for those tempted but never got as far as joining the Stanley family.

Couple of things that I’d like to see, a Farmers Market selling local produce, a van doing Angus Burgers. Maybe some ethnic food stalls so we can venture into some more exotic grub.

Any chance of resurrecting the Miss Accrington Stanley contest, we could make it a Mrs Accrington Stanley contest if the pc birds don’t like the idea. What about an over forties XI to take only the mighty Accrington Stanley Ladies. If it’s a goer book me on the wing.

Please feel free to drop me a pm if there’s out I can do for the club. If the date is confirmed I’ll book some time off following day to help with the clean up.
 
Doug.. your avatar.. looks like your at a party and they sat you in the corner out the way :)
 
one or two have mentioned Miss Stanley competition, i think its a brilliant idea and would generate good column inches (watch it..) but I dont reckon theres enough time left now for this event. You need to put it together properly with press coverage first to get the entrants, find good prizes such as travel agents and beauty parlours putting something together.
If we (by we I mean somebody else) could find a way of doing it less professionally so that the prep work is not as in depth and it doesnt have to look as slick on the night then it would be worth including. If anybody disagrees with me that it is too late in the day then they are more than welcome to start nailing it down now.

Miss Accy Stanley will be revived though. Can anybody tell me who is the current Miss Accy Stanley?
 
Thats what I love about this club.. You pitch an idea and two years later someone says not enough time now :) Well maybe 18mths then but it does seem an age since I brought it up.. only to be fired down by certain female members of the MB .. the ones who want the best of both worlds.. If you go for it mate you can expect a backlash :)

As for current if there is one?. then it's gotta miss pink.... Liz?
 
I'd certainly have backed the idea Kipax, the backlash would come from only a handful of people and is the same with whatever idea anybody comes up with. They are the people who just want to find fault with everything. Done right, done tastefully and done professionally there would be no cause for complaint. Approach the right sort of businesses for sponsorship and the prizes will bring the entrants. Usually they win something like a holiday, free cosmetics and spending money. So we need three or four local companies to put their hand in their pockets. Newspaper and or radio would give us the press we need very easily. Then its just choose a respectable panel of judges, decide a format (no swimwear unfortunately cos that would give cause for complaint) and away we go. The winner would have to agree to a minimum number of shoots for the club as that would be the purpose of having it. She would model the club merchandise and would be present at all Stanley related photo opportunities. She would be at the carnival float/stall and would be in the programme every week. She could have her own calender etc etc etc.

Wouldn't be that hard to put together but I dont have time for that now. Perhaps an entirely separate event (I mean fundraiser) and it would pull the crowds in to fill the bar for another evening.
 
Thats kinda what I pitched and the club (rob) said it was a goer.. i think it was re raised at the time Karen joined the club and they said gonna do it.. but they never did....shock eh..

Certain members of the supporters club who where aghast when i suggested just one supporter of the year instead of male AND female where the same ones who where against a miss accy stanley.. seemed they wanted women to get awards.. just not for looking good :)

Main objective as you say was that the winner could then help promote the club..

Your day is the wrong side of the accy carnival or ya could have got the new queen to double up as accy thingy..
 
I don’t think there’s any harm in a professionally done Miss Accy Stanley and if it brings media interest for the right reasons and promotes what’s good about the town then the sooner the better. There’s always going to be dissenters, but you can’t please everybody.

Mr Macca, I like the fact that there’s a lot of thought and forward thinking going on here, it can only be good for the club, I hope people get infused and join in. I think getting people to come forward with ideas old as well as new and putting together a scrap book of things that can be achieved over the coming year will pay dividends.
 
Everything I do from here on in for the OSC will create a template. Names, contact numbers, unused ideas etc. A simple event will have a checklist of things to do to ensure its success. Ticking down a list of boxes is easier than sitting thinking who do I need to ring next? Learning from my mistakes etc will make the job easier next year, year after and for which ever poor soul succeeds me! I wish I had inherited a file with dos and donts in it so I will try to do that for the next committee. Keep helping folks, all input is valuable.

Still looking for hands in the air for the inaugural committee that needs to be sat down next week.
 
My idea is as follows...

Why dont we have a North West based mascots race ?? their are probably 30 teams in the region (50 miles) also include non league and amatur clubs if they have them !!

I have seen pictures on Kipax site of this but correct me if i'm wrong Tony are the races down south ?? irrespective we could have a mascots race on the pitch... always good for a laugh and usually make's north west/granada tonight type news programmes.

But most of all entertaining light hearted fun...:Banane11: :Banane33: :Banane44:

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