Thanks ladies, and yes Tina, we are at Benning. I am new to all this and there are only 2 of us trying to do this. We are trying to raise money so that we can have family events during the year, as well as some type of family and/or spouse event for Christmas. It's also to be able t have some funds in case a soldier and his/her family has an emergency and we need to help them.
We haven't had anyone doing this, until my friend was asked to start doing this in November. So far, all we have done was set up a table with snacks we sell during the 2 to 3 days the guys have drill.
We can't trust anyone to have a "snack bar", our company UA emptied out our funds between our January drill and our February drill, supposedly to cover some expenses related to the change of command ceremony, in which all unit members weren't even invited to and that is not what the money is for. She didn't proved a receipt, so we had to go open a checking account so she didn't have access to the money.
The FRG leader and I have been trying to supply our snack sales out of our own pocket with couponing and we buy some items out of the little bit of funds we have left after the UA wiped us out.
I think it might be hard to do a lot, because the families aren't around, this is a Reserve Unit and they are only together one weekend a month, and the family members don't usually come with them, I'm not sure very many of them are local.
There is another unit that drills the same weekend we do and they come purchase stuff from us, but so far we are really only averaging $150 one weekend a month, needless to say that doesn't go very far.
In February, the guys were supposed to go to the field, so we bought donuts and had coffee and oj and took donations, that didn't work out too well.
Tina, where do we find out more info about MWR issue? Our new Commander seems on board with what we are doing and I guess I never knew MWR would have any say, but I am new to this, even though my husband has been with this unit on and off for about 7 years.