Last Updated: Monday, 20-Nov-2023 15:50:32 EST
Fundraising
Please keep in touch with our Cummunity Fundraiser regarding all fundraising efforts
- James Montague: OakvilleFC@specialolympicsontario.ca
It is important that you consult our Guidelines for Deposit for information about how cheques are to be filled out and about handling cash.
Fundraising Guidelines are also addressed in our Community Guidelines Article 6.
Fundraising Opportunities
Lottery and Gaming Licensing
The town of Oakville is authorized to provide local businesses
and charities with lottery and gaming licensees. For more information
please view Oakville's
Lottery and Gaming Licensing
page.
This page refers to an "Eligibility Questionaire" to be filled out and submitted.
This has already been done for SOO Oakville and does NOT need to be filled out for
individual fundraising events.
Online Fundraising: Using Crowdchange
Special Olympics Ontario uses Crowdchange for many Provincial online fundraising campaigns and has identified Crowdchange as, at present, the only online fundraising platform to be used by Special Olympics Ontario Communities & Volunteers. More information may be found on the SOO Resources site, Online Fundraising
Accepting Credit Card and Debit Card Payments
For the purpose of in person fundraising, Special Olympics Ontario (SOO) have Point of Sale (POS) terminals available for use at these types of events. If you are planning an in-person fundraiser and wish to take debit card and credit card payments at your event, please contact our Fundraising Co-Ordinator to reserve these POS terminals from SOO.
eBingo
Our community participates in the Charity Bingo hosted at
Delta Bingo in Oakville. Money raised by our volunteers is put into a trust account and may be accessed to benefit our participants in many ways. For a description of the rules for the use of the trust account funds please read
Eligible uses of proceeds: Amateur Sports Organizaions (pdf).
SOO Oakville eBingo Volunteers
to access eBingo Information.