I am organizing a christian concert festival that is going to involve many church's praise bands in my area. This is unique to my area seeing there is nothing of the kind and I feel like there will be a lot of support for it.
It's taking place during the summer of 2012, at a church owned park in a good sized field. Since the property only allows nonprofit organizations all the proceeds will go to charity. We have a basic sound system that includes 4 mackie SRM450's, 32 channel sound board, and all of the necessary cable to get by. We would like to make this an all day event, going into the night, so lighting is required. This requires truss, fixtures, light board, dimmers, lighting tech, sound tech, etc.
We are thinking around a $10 entree fee. We think a reasonable attendance would be 500 people considering all of the bands we ask to play and the built-in audiences they already have.
The problem is that gives us 5k of revenue but after equipment fee i'm thinking roughly 3.8k that would go to charity? This is a pretty low number and we would like to increase it. In what ways could we raise money to pay for the equipment? I was thinking of asking some of the churches we ask to play in it to sponsor. We could frame the stage with sponsor banners on the truss. Also another idea would be to have corporate sponsors but would this be distracting and inappropriate to the christian audience?
Thanks!
It's taking place during the summer of 2012, at a church owned park in a good sized field. Since the property only allows nonprofit organizations all the proceeds will go to charity. We have a basic sound system that includes 4 mackie SRM450's, 32 channel sound board, and all of the necessary cable to get by. We would like to make this an all day event, going into the night, so lighting is required. This requires truss, fixtures, light board, dimmers, lighting tech, sound tech, etc.
We are thinking around a $10 entree fee. We think a reasonable attendance would be 500 people considering all of the bands we ask to play and the built-in audiences they already have.
The problem is that gives us 5k of revenue but after equipment fee i'm thinking roughly 3.8k that would go to charity? This is a pretty low number and we would like to increase it. In what ways could we raise money to pay for the equipment? I was thinking of asking some of the churches we ask to play in it to sponsor. We could frame the stage with sponsor banners on the truss. Also another idea would be to have corporate sponsors but would this be distracting and inappropriate to the christian audience?
Thanks!