OPEN LETTER TO ALL BRUNEIANS, GOVERMENT AND NON-GOVERMENT AGENCIES IN BRUNEI: Proposal to run BSB Gundam & Anime Club in Brunei

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BSB Anime & Gundam Club

A volunteer and enthusiast kind of club, open to all who love anime, toys, action figures, any other merchandising or collectibles items from anime, movie or comics and manga.

Mission & Activities:

- To encourage our youth to be more active into healthy activities like hobby kits modeling related activities and thus preventing them from the time wasting and dangerous activities like drugs.

- To foster harmony and unity amongst members of the club

- To promote original new and old products from anime, drama, movie etc.

- To help develop members in their skills and knowledge about hobby kits modeling.

- To organize a hobby/collectors exhibition in anywhere possible – say like in the SOAS school fair

- To organize hobby kits competition amongst members and/or to public

- To start a bog scale diorama projects for display/exhibitions - and hopefully for sale...

Fees:

No joining fees or annual membership fees suggested at the moment as this is basically a volunteer and enthusiast kind of club but if in the case where we planned to organize some activities, members shall willing to donate some minimal amount - depending on the members headcount – a suggested amount of B$10.00 should be reasonable.


Promotion through blog/website;

- Shewsbury Land will surely help to do the news/media coverage for this club however any other member/non-members can also do the same as this will help to spread the news faster.

Retail outlets participation;

First and foremost, this doesn’t mean that we ask money from the retail outlets or ask them to blindly sponsor 1 or 2 items as a free gift. What we need is more into co-operation and their networks. We have to also understand that the shop are doing business to get profit, so if we want them to get involved we must also help them on how to boost their sales. There is no such thing as free lunch.

It would be a good idea if we can ask some of the hobby/toys outlets in BSB or any other place in Brunei (Chong Hock, Kawan Ria etc.) to also be our sponsor or even better get involved as partner as we will help them do the advertising for them and on the other hand we can encourage our members to buy products from them.

For example; we always see that in The Mall – they always have this PC Fair or whatever fair down there at the Ground Floor – and most of the times it is the IT products (computer, laptops, accessories etc.) who become the attention grabber.

So with the participation of these retail outlets (Chong Hock, Kawan Ria etc.) – they can help us to talk with The Mall management to organize some sort of TOY FAIR or TOY FESTIVAL on that Ground Floor at The Mall so they can take this opportunity to promote their shop and products and the member of Gundam & Anime Club can also participate by exhibiting their collections or special projects to the public and this also can be a good time for those “Cosplay” thing.

We can also arrange some activities for kids (of the public) like drawing competition or whatever fun games we can think of but for them (kid of the public) to participate, they must buy something from our retail partners.

As for the cost of such events, I believe it is only fair if we all share the burden together – the members of the club and the retail outlets and any other outlets that willing to participate in the event. So we also need to invite many other retail outlets or shops to participate in this event so that we can share the cost.

And if The Mall would cost so much for the event – then probably we can try to find other alternative locations such as Qlap Mall or Yayasan or maybe PGGMB Building but surely The Mall is the main location that we can easily get the crowd.

Funding;

It would be great if we can get some rich man or company to be our sponsors but since we are just an enthusiast open club we are not registered with the relevant authorities and therefore it is impossible to get such sponsorship – unless of course if we are very lucky to somehow get someone generous who is willing to fund our activities and projects.

So basically at the moment this club will be funded by the members and in fact we only need those funds when we really will have activities and/or project.

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