[Darren Boyle]

As far as getting people to stay and help pack away etc, try what we do at our club....

When they book in, racers hand in their BRCA card, once all the racing is finished, we put all the cards into a tin, 50p from each entry goes towards a sweepstake, which is then drawn using the BRCA cards from the tin. Track goes in away in just a few minutes and you can identify anyone who sneaks off early becuase you still have hold of their BRCA card..

Of course we have some exceptions, very young children, those who travel long distances to race with us, those who get up silly early for work the next day etc, these people just come up and collect thier card before they leave, but we do ask them to make an extra effort with all of the setting up tasks.

Then of course those who have snuck off early, you can catch red handed when they next come up to book in and they dont have their BRCA card (since it is still in the tin from the previuos week... simples)

As a rule, if we get approx 30-40 people racing, we tend to split the sweepstake up into several cash prizes mounting up to the £15/20, so there are several winners, increasing their chances with each going home with between £3 and £7

We did also try charging the extar 50p, then giving it back at the end to those who helped, this just did not work since for the sake of 50p most people still just left, however the incentive of a chance of winning one of 2 or 3 slighly larger cash prizes proved to work much better.......... (for us anyhow)

Then when it comes to getting people to stay back for trophy presentations, if it is at a meeting with a raffle, just present the trophies at the end of the racing and then draw the raffle straight after that, this tends to keep people behind to see if they have won anything, the event does not finish any later since the raffle would have only took up time earlier in the day anyhow...........