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 takes part, and each squad appears here once its registration comes in. 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
There is no monthly fee and no minimum. You pay only for games actually played, so a postponed Saturday costs you nothing. What a season adds up to depends on how many games your player's team gets through, and the €5 ceiling holds on every single one of them.
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 running costs of keeping a team on the road.
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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You only pay for rugby playedNo monthly fee and no minimum. A postponed game costs you nothing, and so does a scoreless one.
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Stop whenever you likeOne email to clanerugby@gmail.com 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.
Pick a player.
That is the whole job.
It takes about two minutes. Choose a player, set your card up once, and everything after that is automatic. More squads join the list as their registration comes in.