Sponsor
a Player
Back one Clane player for the season. When their team scores, you give a little. When they do not, you give nothing. On the biggest day of the year it still costs you €5.
Three steps, then forget about it.
Clane RFC is putting a proper clubhouse on the pitch we have played on for forty years. Growing Together is how the whole club chips in, a little at a time, across a whole season.
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01Pick a player
Every squad from U13 up to the Senior Men and Senior Women is listed. Choose your own child, a neighbour's, or simply a player you like watching. More than one person can back the same player.
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02They play
Every point their team scores adds 50 cent to your pledge. Scores come straight from the official Leinster Rugby results, so nobody in the club has to count anything or chase anyone.
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03One payment a week
Every Monday morning your week's rugby is added up and taken as a single payment, with a receipt by email. There is nothing to collect and nothing to hand in at the clubhouse.
Real games, real numbers.
Three Saturdays, and what each one would actually take from a 50 cent pledge.
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Clane beat Birr 31 to 031 points is €15.50, so the cap does the work€5.00
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A tight one, Clane score 88 points at 50 cent each, under the cap€4.00
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A wet day, held scorelessNo points, no charge€0.00
Your season is capped as well as your Saturday. The total you can ever be charged is €5 multiplied by the number of games your player's team is scheduled to play, which works out at roughly €85 across a full season. Once you hit it, the charges stop and the pledge simply runs on for the pride of it.
Into the ground, not into a platform.
Clane RFC built and runs this itself. No fundraising company takes a percentage, and the only deduction is the bank charge on the card payment.
The clubhouse, the pitches and the facilities every squad shares. This is the fund the whole project exists to fill.
A fifth of everything a squad raises goes straight back to that squad, for gear, for buses, for the things coaches currently pay for out of their own pockets.
You are never on the hook.
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A hard ceiling every game€5 is the most any single game can cost you. A cricket score against a weak side costs you exactly the same as a one point win.
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A hard ceiling every seasonYou are told your season maximum before you agree to anything, and you can never be charged a cent above it.
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Stop whenever you likeOne email to the club ends the pledge. Nothing further is taken and nobody will ring you about it.
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The club never sees your cardCard details are held by Stripe, the same payments company behind a great many Irish online checkouts. No volunteer ever handles your card number.
The ones people ask.
The pledge follows their team, not their minutes. Your player keeps their sponsor through injury, rotation and a run of games on the bench, and you are charged on what the team scores.
Every squad whose games are officially scored, so U13 up through the Youths and Girls to the Senior Men and Senior Women. Minis games are not scored, so the Minis have their own fundraiser coming separately.
Yes, and we hope most of them will. Every sponsor has their own separate €5 cap, so nobody is competing with anybody.
Not at all. Grandparents, past players, neighbours and local businesses are all welcome to back a player.
Every weekly payment sends you a receipt showing the games it covers and the score in each one. Nothing is taken without a line of explanation behind it.
In good company
Growing Together sits alongside the businesses that already back Clane RFC. They keep the lights on and the gear on backs. Sponsoring a player puts you on the same wall.
Squads first.
Then we open the doors.
Players are added as registration comes in through September, and sponsorship opens once the squads are in. Leave your name and you will hear the morning it goes live.