Budgeting for your event

Make sure you write a checklist of all of your expenditure and how much money you realistically expect to raise and keep your checklist updated along the course of the event.

Using a simple checklist like the one below will make sure that you do not overspend.

(a) Forecasted Expenditure

Item of Expenditure  

Venue/Room Hire:
Printing/advertising:
Food Costs:
Entertainment Costs:
Postage:
Stationery:
Total Cost = (a)

(b) Forecasted Income

Item of Income 

Sponsorship:
Ticket Sales:
Donations:
Raffle/Tombola:
Auction:
Drink/Food Sales:
Total Income = (b)

(c) Total Forecasted Fundraising for Event

(b) – (a) = (c)