Dear Scout Families,We have many exciting activities planned this year for our Scouts such as the Fall Campout, Pinewood Derby, Blue & Gold Banquet, Spring Campout and Rocket Day! We are counting on the income from the Popcorn Sale to help offset or cover the cost of these events.
Trails End is again our partner for popcorn sales. 70% of the popcorn revenue comes back to local scouting. 35% comes back to OUR PACK! To fund our activities this year, we ask that each scout sells at least $150 in popcorn. Believe it or not, a scout from Colorado sold $31,216 in popcorn last year! The top pack in our council sold $27,968! In 2013 we had a very respectable $5000 in sales. If every scout just *meets* the $150 goal we’ll easily exceed that goal! The more that we can earn, the more we can cover costs for events.
Ways to sell
Take Order
- Friends, family & neighbors make an order, pay up front and the scout delivers the popcorn to them In November. This is good for your neighborhood, work, church, etc.
- Take order forms due to me by Oct 20.
- I have forms for this. I’ll have them at every scout event. Your den leaders will also have forms. Call me if you want me to drop some off for you!
Show & Sell
- Scouts set up a booth outside of local stores and sell as customers come in.
- Many scouts have met their $150 minimum at just one show and sell!
- Our currently scheduled dates are:
- Sept 19 – 3:30pm-6:30pm @ Tennant Safeway
- Sept 26 – 3:30pm-6:30pm @ E Dunne Safeway
- Sept 27 – 3pm-6pm @ E Dunne Safeway
- Oct 11 – 10am-1pm @ E Dunne Safeway
- Oct 12 – 3pm-6pm @ E Dunne Safeway
- Oct 19 – 3pm-6pm @ E Dunne Safeway
- The sales for each Show & Sell will be divided among the scouts, weighted by time attended.
- Deborah and I are looking for more locations and dates for you.
Online
- Using the Trails End site, far flung friends and family can place orders to support their scouts. The site has an easy way to send emails out for your scout. Oh, and the popcorn is delivered to them for you!
- The average online order is $48!
- Here are Instructions for setting up your online account.
- Last orders for the Fall season through Oct 31.
Prizes!
We have a lot of cool prizes for scouts this year too!
The scout that sells the most popcorn will receive a Crossman Pumpmaster 760 BB gun donated by our beloved Cubmaster Pat!
Second place will be a Lego City Police unit set donated by an anonymous den leader.
Any scout that attends 2 hours of Show & Sell will get a custom Pack 766 water bottle
Any scout that sells over:
$150 will receive a copy of “The Boy’s book of survival” or “Minecraft: Construction Handbook”
$250 will receive a Geyser tube science kit
$350 will receive a lighted football
$600 will receive a stomp rocket set
$1500 will receive 2 tickets to a Sharks game
$2500 will get 6% of their sales (and all future year’s sales) invested into their own college fund
Also, the den with the most sales will get a special pizza party and the top selling scout in each den will have the honor of throwing a pie at their den leader at the next pack meeting!
We’re looking forward to a fun filled popcorn selling season! As with last year, we will offer the $50 buy out option. We do prefer that the scouts to do the fund raising themselves though. It helps give them a sense of ownership in the pack activities and provides a wonderful growth opportunity.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact Deborah or me:
Deborah Vick deborah.vick@gmail.com 619 254-0189
Chris Bosso cbosso@gmail.com 408 406-7200
Thanks in advance for all of your help in this important fund raiser for the pack,
Chris & Deborah
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