Paid junior coaching clinic
- Outdoor: weather matters
The club runs a half-day to three-day skills clinic for juniors, coached by its senior players and coaches or a visiting top player, and charges a per-child fee.
Typically raises
$1,500
$300–5,000 per eventest.
About $86 per organiser hour
Based on about 40 children at $50
Is it right for us?
- Money
- $500–2,000
- Work
- A few evenings
- Helpers
- 3–6 people
- Lead time
- 1–2 months
- Red tape
- Light
Fairly common: clubs run them, but not often as fundraisers
- People
- 1 coach per 8-12 children plus a registration desk and first-aider (estimate)
- Organiser time
- 10-25 hours per clinic (estimate)
- Lead time
- 4-6 weeks; book a visiting player or coach 2-3 months ahead (estimate)
- Up-front cost
- $200. Cones, balls, bibs, drinks and printing; a visiting pro's fee or travel if used (estimate).
- Risk
- Low with club coaches; medium if a paid visiting coach is booked before enrolments come in.
How it works
The money, as an example sum
Take about $1,700, pay about $200 of costs, and you keep about $1,500 per event: the typical result for about 40 children at $50.
From the typical figure on this page. Your result will differ.
Where the money figure comes from
NZ junior clinic and holiday-clinic prices: $45/day or $120 for 3 days (Kelly Sports Wellington, Oct 2026), $60/day or $110 for 2 days (Netball North Harbour), $60/day or $150 for 3 days (Dunedin netball), $50/day (Otago Nuggets clinic) (via search). Example: 40 children at $50 is $2,000 gross; with volunteer senior coaches most of it is profit (estimate). A paid visiting pro raises both price and cost (estimate).
Last checked October 2026. Ran this? Tell us what you raised and we’ll use real results to improve the figures.
Step by step
- Pick the format and ages: e.g. a half-day clinic for 7-12-year-olds in the holidays or before the season.
- Choose coaches: senior players and accredited coaches, or approach a visiting provincial or national player through your regional body.
- Police vet everyone who will coach and set coach-to-child ratios.
- Plan stations and skills progressions so every child is active, with a game at the end.
- Set the price against nearby clinics ($45-60 per day is common) and offer a sibling discount.
- Open online registration with medical and photo consent; cap numbers.
- On the day, sign children in and out, keep a first-aid kit and incident log, and take photos for sponsors (with consent).
- Follow up with families: invite them to join the club or come back next holidays.
Getting the word out
Even a well-run plan fails if nobody hears about it. There are two asks, and the first one goes out first.
- Ask for help
- Members to take a shift, and someone with the gear or the site.
- Ask people to buy
- People to come along, or book, and pay on the day.
- When to start
- Ask for helpers first, as soon as the date is set. Start the public ask about 3–4 weeks out, and book newsletter and paper notices before that: small newsletters close early.
Where to put it
- School, club and church newslettersYour own newsletter is free and read by the families most likely to say yes. Check when it closes.
- PostersPosters at the school gate, the clubrooms and shop windows, with the date, place, price and how to pay.
- Local Facebook pages and community groupsPost in your town’s community page and local groups (check their rules), and share from your group’s own page.
- Billboards and roadside signsYour school’s or club’s own sign by the road, a banner on the fence, or a sandwich board on the day for passers-by.
The full guide to getting the word out: every channel from flyers to the evening news, with lead times and costs.
What you’ll need
- Place
- NeededYour own grounds or hall
- Landowner’s permission
- Not needed
- Council permit
- Not needed
- Food rules
- Not neededNo food sold
- Alcohol
- Not neededNo alcohol sold
- Gambling rules
- Not neededNot gambling
- Health and safety
- CheckA simple risk check and briefing
- First aid
- NeededA first aider and kit on site (recommended)
- Insurance
- CheckCheck your cover
Police vet all coaches and helpers under your code's child protection policy. Paying a coach makes the club a PCBU under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.
Make more from it
Parent coffee and BBQ at pick-up
$100-300 per clinic (estimate)
parents wait around at drop-off and pick-up
Clinic cap or ball at a bundled price
$5-10 margin per child (estimate)
easy upsell at registration
Stack it: on its own, about $1,500. With the add-on above, roughly
$1,700est.
What you can get donated
A sponsor can cover the visiting coach's fee or provide a give-away (drink bottle, cap) for each child.
Tips
- Seniors coaching juniors builds club culture and costs nothing; give the seniors a meal or kit as thanks (estimate).
- A recognisable name lifts numbers: advertise the visiting player early and get a photo with each child (estimate).
- Run it just before registration day so the clinic doubles as recruitment (estimate).
Watch out for
- Booking a paid star before you know enrolment numbers.
- Too few coaches, so children stand in queues and parents do not return.
- Unvetted senior players coaching unsupervised.
Paid junior coaching clinic: checklist
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Police vet all coaches and helpers under your code's child protection policy. Paying a coach makes the club a PCBU under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.
* General fundraising information, not legal, tax or financial advice. Money figures are examples and estimates, not promises. Check current official requirements before you commit. About this guide