For more than forty years the Armchair Club has raised funds to support talented sportspeople, teams, clubs and community sports organisations across Mansfield and Ashfield. Our fundraising helps local sportspeople pursue their ambitions, and helps clubs develop opportunities for others to take part and progress.
There are lots of ways to get involved. You can come to one of our events, enter a team, sponsor an event or activity, play the Robin Hood Lottery and nominate the Armchair Club Sports Foundation as your chosen good cause, or simply make a donation. However you choose to help, your support lets us keep investing in local sport.
Ways to support us
Question of Sport
One of the highlights of our calendar. Get a team of friends, colleagues or club members together for an evening of sporting questions and friendly competition.
Charity Golf Day
Enter a team, entertain clients, or simply enjoy a day of golf at Rufford Park while helping us raise money for local sport. Sponsorship opportunities are available too.
Charity Swimathon
Run jointly with Mansfield Rotary Club. Clubs, schools, businesses and families raise sponsorship through the lengths they swim — and you do not have to get in the pool to help.
Robin Hood Lottery
Support us every week, and you could win too. Play the Robin Hood Lottery and choose the Armchair Club Sports Foundation as your good cause — a share of every ticket comes straight to us as regular income.
Sports Recognition Awards
Mansfield’s annual celebration of local sporting achievement. Businesses can sponsor the evening, sponsor an individual award, or contribute towards the cost of staging it.
Event sponsorship
Put your business behind local sport. Sponsorship can be tailored to any budget, from principal sponsor of an event down to supporting a single element of the evening.
Make a donation
You do not have to come to an event to make a difference. You can give at any time, and tell us where you would like your donation to go — or leave it to us to use wherever the need is greatest.
- General Armchair Club fund — used wherever the need is greatest
- Armchair Club Sports Foundation — our charitable trust, supporting local sporting talent
- Charity Swimathon, Charity Golf Day or the Sports Recognition Awards
- Something else — just tell us which campaign you would like to support
How to pay
Whether you are buying tickets, entering a team, sponsoring an event or making a donation, we want paying to be straightforward. Payments can be made by debit or credit card, or by bank transfer.
Get in touch and we will send you the details for whichever suits you. Please tell us what the payment is for so we can allocate it to the right event or campaign — and if you are paying by bank transfer, use your name or your organisation’s name as the reference.
Businesses: become an Armchair Club supporter
Supporting us does not have to mean becoming a major event sponsor. We are always glad to hear from businesses and organisations that share our commitment to the local community, whatever the scale. Your business could:
- Sponsor an event, a Swimathon lane, or an individual award
- Enter a Golf Day or Question of Sport team
- Provide a raffle or auction prize
- Make a one-off corporate donation, or support a particular campaign
- Encourage employees to take part, or help spread the word
Every contribution helps
Whether it is £10 or £5,000, every contribution helps us keep supporting sport across Mansfield and Ashfield. Armchair Club funding has helped local sportspeople with coaching, equipment, travel and competition costs, and helped clubs create opportunities in our community.
Some of the people we have backed have gone on to compete at the very highest level of their sport. For others, our support simply helped them take the next step. They all started with an opportunity — and you can help us provide it.
None of what the Armchair Club achieves would be possible without the people, businesses and organisations behind our fundraising. Thank you for helping us support local sport.