Like Andy, I wonder what these 'expenses' are! £5 a head entrance-money, and good attendance, should be producing a sizeable pot - maybe it's not an increase in income you need, but a cut in expenses or a new treasurer, or both.

At Gainsborough Folk Club we have free entrance on singaround nights (which is the vast bulk of our meetings) and our only income is from a raffle, but we searched around and found a room in a members club which they let us have for nothing. Pretty it ain't, but it's free and the music makes an atmosphere. Our raffle-proceeds go towards the cost of putting on a paid guest four or five times a year (recent guests have included Anthony John Clarke, Julie Ellison and Bram Taylor) so we charge entrance of only £3-50 on those nights. On this meagre income our funds are steadily, albeit slowly, increasing.

Sorry, don't mean to offend anyone but it needs to be asked - do you really know where your door money's actually going?