SARG is funded through fundraising and dues. Our fundraising includes hosted meets, community grants, corporate donations, and other fundraising activities listed on page 9. Our annual budget is nearly $50,000 and fundraising efforts allow us to maintain our low monthly dues.

SARG starts its winter season beginning in early September, and its summer season in April. For winter, an initial fee of $65.00 per swimmer will be charged for all groups. The initial fee covers the cost of you swimmer’s USS membership ($51.00-required for insurance purposes), team swim cap, Christmas party and end-of-year Banquet for the swimmer, as well as other administrative team costs. All SARG groups will need to be registered with USS and SARG swimming to participate.

Each year SARG hosts several swim meets which are necessary fundraisers for us. In the past, we have hosted our short course meets in October and January, and our long course meets in May, June and sometimes the conference meet in July. All SARG parents are required to work meets because we cannot run the meets without your help. *There will be a $50.00 fee assessed to your monthly bill for choosing not to participate in at least one session at each home meet. (This fee is completely separate from the $50.00 fundraising requirement.) Home Swim meets are a mandatory Fundraising activity for all families. Swim meets will not be used as credit toward your fundraising responsibilities. This is our number one fundraising activity, without swim meets, training fees, would have to drastically increase.

Fundraising Incentive Program

The SARG club has a Fundraising Incentive Program. This program runs on a yearly basis from April 1st through February of the following year, with gift certificates presented to each qualifying family at the awards banquet in April. Each family is required to raise a minimum of $50.00 for the first participating member and $25.00 for each additional participating member in the following groups Pre-Ally, Ally, Pre-gator and Gator. However, this is only a minimum that the Board has set to ensure that everyone helps out to some degree. The SARG Board has come up with an incentive program for the families that go above and beyond the requirement. We regularly have families who raise $300.00 and more each year for SARG through our fund-raisers, and with the incentive program we are going to reward those hard working families. The following is a breakdown of how you can reward your family for going above the required family fundraising minimum.

You will start to achieve the first incentive level with the first dollar you raise for SARG. Once you reach your requirement goal, the first incentive comes at $100.00 above your family fundraising requirement minimum.

Level One – Family fundraising requirement meet (Minimum requirement dependent upon number of family members participating in SARG program.

We recently started another fundraiser that was very successful for the team. We felt like it was something that we should pursue with aspirations of it getting bigger and better each and every year. The kids went out and collected money. They then swam laps at our Swim-A-Thon at the High School, and in return received prizes for different levels of sponsorships. Credit will be given at 50% of funds raised.

When we host a bake sale, we ask that each family donate something to the bake sale. Credits will be $10.00/2 hour shift worked.

Working an 8 hour shift at Holiday World during the summer can earn SARG team extra money.

SARG has booths at local festivals where we sell items to raise money for the club as well and advertise what our club is about. Working a two (2) hour shift at a festival will result in a $10.00 credit toward your fundraising dues.

This fund-raiser typically begins with the beginning of the (SCY) fall season. We sell boxes of approximately 50 candy bars. Each box cost the team about $25.00 and each box that your family sells will result in a $25.00 credit to your fundraising dues.

Script is a fundraiser in which SARG members purchases negotiable gift certificates that are used just like cash.  The script is issued by national and local retailers and are dollar for dollar the amount spent.

This fundraiser is great because you can earn money for SARG while making purchases that you would make anyway.  SARG places a script order each month.  5% of your gift card purchases count toward your fundraising dues.