Fundraise with something your supporters already buy
Chocolate and cookie drives ask people for a favour. A meat box sells them what they were going to buy anyway, at about supermarket prices, and your club earns $30–75 from every box. Hit your target and your raffle prize is free too.
Why meat?
It’s a staple, not a treat
New Zealanders spend roughly $12–19 per person each week on meat, chicken and seafood. For a family of four that’s about $200–330 a month. A box is a month or so of meat bought in one go, so it doesn’t add to anyone’s spending.
Every sale is worth more
A chocolate bar earns your club about $1.20. A cookie bucket earns $2.50. A $149 Everyday Box earns about $34, and a $259 Christmas BBQ box about $76, from the same one conversation with a supporter.
Fewer sales to reach your goal
Raising $5,000 takes about 110 meat boxes, or 2,000 cookie buckets, or more than 4,000 chocolate bars. Your sellers need far fewer yeses.
Better than the supermarket shelf
Boxes come from the same wholesaler that supplies restaurants and butchers. Supporters get cuts they might not usually buy, like beef short ribs, pork belly or a whole salmon side at Christmas.
How a campaign runs
- Week 0
Choose your boxes and your club’s share. Prices are locked for the campaign.
- Weeks 1–4
Sales open. Supporters order online, and you watch the total climb towards 50 boxes and your free raffle prize.
- Close
At least 20 boxes sold? Orders are combined into one bulk order to the wholesaler.
- 1–2 weeks later
The butcher packs and labels every box.
- Pickup Friday
The chiller truck comes to your clubrooms. Supporters collect.
- Within 5 days
Your club is paid its share.
What you get, and what it means for your committee
Selling
- Your club’s own online shop
- Supporters order and pay by card on your page. Nobody collects cash, chases payments or keeps an order sheet.
- Share links for every supporter
- Supporters pass the page to family and workmates, and each sale is credited to the person who shared it.
- Live sales totals and a seller leaderboard
- See what’s been raised at any moment. A bit of friendly competition between teams or classes does the rest.
The meat
- Boxes packed by a butcher, supplied by a national wholesaler
- Restaurant-grade meat, packed and labelled for you. No stock in anyone’s garage and nothing left unsold. We only order what your supporters have bought.
- One pickup from a chiller truck at your clubrooms
- One short Friday-afternoon event instead of weeks of deliveries. It also brings your supporters to the club.
- No upfront cost
- Nothing to pay to start. The campaign goes ahead once you pass 20 boxes, and we only order what supporters have bought, so there’s no stock risk.
The money
- Your club keeps everything after costs
- Boxes are priced at about supermarket level. After the meat, card fees and our 5% fee, the rest is yours: about 15–30% of every box.
- Free printed raffle tickets
- Run a meat raffle alongside: numbered ticket books, a record of who holds which numbers, and a fair public draw.
- A free raffle prize when you hit your target
- Sell 50 boxes and the wholesaler donates a $500 Christmas Hamper Box, the same box that’s in your shop, as your raffle prize. Supporters can see exactly what they could win. With our free tickets, your raffle costs the club nothing.
Add a meat raffle that costs you nothing
The prize
Sell 50 boxes and the wholesaler donates a $500 Christmas Hamper Box: scotch fillet, a salmon side, short ribs, lamb, prawns and more. It’s in your shop, so supporters can see exactly what they could win. Fall short, and you can buy it at cost.
The tickets
Our free raffle tool prints numbered ticket books with the legal wording already on them. It tracks which seller has which book and runs a fair public draw.
The maths
A $500 prize lets you sell up to $2,500 of tickets under raffle rules. That’s 1,250 tickets at $2, all profit for your club, sold at the same time as your meat boxes.
Plan your campaign
Enter how many of each box you think your club could sell, then add a raffle. The prices are this season’s boxes, and the club’s figures come from real wholesale costs.
1. Your meat boxes
Your club keeps everything each box earns after the meat, card fees and our 5% fee.
| Box | Price | Club gets per box | Boxes | Club total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Everyday Box | $149 | $34.39 | $1,376 | |
| Everyday Plus | $229 | $59.98 | $900 | |
| Bulk Value Box | $199 | $29.84 | $448 | |
| Christmas BBQ & Smoker Box | $259 | $76.28 | $1,526 | |
| Christmas Seafood Box | $169 | $50.68 | $507 | |
| Christmas Hamper Box | $499 | $134.18 | $0 | |
| Total | $19,250 | 100 | $4,755 |
✓ Over the 20-box minimum, so the campaign goes ahead. ✓ Over 50 boxes: your raffle prize is donated.
2. Your meat raffle
The first is donated when you hit 50 boxes. Extra hampers cost your club $365 each (the price less what your club earns on it). 10 ($4,990) is the most allowed: a Class 2 raffle can have up to $5,000 of prizes.
One $499 hamper allows tickets worth up to $2,494 at the single price. Selling 80% of them, less $37 of home printing.
- Why there’s a ticket limit: prizes must be worth at least 20% of the value of all the tickets you print. So $499 of prizes allows at most $2,495 of tickets.
- Selling out fast? You can’t add tickets to a raffle once it’s set up. Two legal ways to raise more: start with bigger prizes, or after the draw run a second, completely separate raffle with its own prize, its own ticket numbers and its own draw.
- Sell in person only. Advertising on social media is fine, but tickets can’t be sold online, by message or by phone.
3. Your targets
Using your box mix (about $48 to the club per box) and a sold-out raffle with 1 hamper prize: 1,247 tickets at $2, all profit to the club.
The raffle rules are New Zealand law, not ours
Many clubs don’t know these rules, and plenty of club raffles break them without meaning to. Our raffle tool builds them in, so your raffle is legal from the start. In short, for a club (a “society”) running a Class 2 raffle, which needs no licence:
- Prizes: worth $5,000 or less in total (retail value).
- Tickets: worth $25,000 or less in total, counted as tickets printed × the single ticket price.
- The 20% rule: prizes must be worth at least 20% of all the tickets printed. That’s why your prize sets your ticket limit.
- In person only: no selling online, by text or Facebook message, or by phone. Advertising is fine.
- Print the details on each ticket: who runs it, the purpose, prizes, price, draw date and place, and how results are published.
- Draw publicly within 14 days of sales closing, from sold tickets only.
- Money goes to the club’s purpose. Nobody can take a percentage of ticket sales, including us.
Want to raise more from the raffle?
The prize sets the limit, so the only way to sell more tickets is more prize value. Three legal options:
- Add prizes. The $500 Christmas Hamper plus $500 of donated vouchers from local businesses makes $1,000 of prizes, which allows $5,000 of tickets.
- Start bigger. Pick a bigger first prize from the start, up to $5,000 of prizes in total.
- Run a second raffle after the first. If tickets sell out, draw that raffle, then start a new one: its own prize, its own ticket numbers, its own draw and its own money. What you can’t do is print extra tickets for a raffle that’s already set up, or run two raffles side by side as one raffle split in two.
Read the official rules from the Department of Internal Affairs:
Where the spending figure comes from
We checked three independent ways. They give a range, from about $12 a person a week (the household survey, which tends to under-count) to about $19 (supermarket sales):
- Household survey. Stats NZ’s Household Economic Survey (year to June 2023) records $31.30 a week per household on meat, poultry and seafood. With about 2.7 people per household, that’s about $11.60 a person.
- What we eat. Official forecasts put 2025–26 consumption at about 8 kg of beef, 2 kg of lamb, 16 kg of pork and 25 kg of poultry per person a year. At typical supermarket prices, that’s roughly $14 a person a week, including meals eaten out.
- Supermarket sales. The grocery market is about $25 billion a year. Meat and seafood are around 18–20% of supermarket sales, which is $45–51 a week for each of New Zealand’s 1.9 million households, or about $17–19 a person, before butcher sales.
Run the numbers for your club
Pick a box size and your club’s share, and see what 100 sales would raise.