ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB
PLEDGE YOUR PICKET CAMPAIGN
By donating to the Adelaide Football Club Pledge Your Picket Campaign, you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions.
All donations to the Pledge Your Picket Campaign are tax-deductible and are managed through the Australian Sports Foundation Ltd. The ASF collects your personal information for the purposes of processing and receipting donations you make. For more information on the ASF, please visit https://asf.org.au/terms-and-conditions.
- Definitions
“Adelaide Football Club” or “AFC” means the Adelaide Football Club Limited (ACN 008 101 568) of 105 West Lakes Boulevard, West Lakes SA 5021.
“ASF” means Australian Sports Foundation Ltd (ABN 27 008 613 858).
“Picket Fence” means the fence made up of individual pickets to be installed around the Thebarton Oval playing field. The Adelaide Football Club will be the owner of the Picket Fence.
“Plaque” means the plaque placed on the Picket Fence, on which your name or message may be written.
“You” or “your” means the individual person and or entity/company who has donated funds to secure a personalised picket via an online link through the Adelaide Football Club fundraising website.
- Pickets
2.1 Legacy
Funds raised through the Pledge Your Picket Campaign will go towards the installation of facilities for the Adelaide Football Club at Thebarton Oval including the picket fence, ensuring that you can leave your legacy at our Thebarton Oval Precinct, and secure your place in history as part of a new era for the Club.
2.2 Term of a Picket
2.2 (a) Term
Subject to these Terms and Conditions, your pledge for a picket at the Thebarton Oval will be for a 10-year period from the installation date in 2027.
2.2 (b) At Term End
At the completion of the term described above, you may be offered the opportunity to repledge your picket donation, if the AFC decides to re-run the campaign (New Campaign). Any such New Campaign may be subject to different terms and conditions and may involve different costs (including the donation required to maintain the picket) and/or benefits.
2.3 Donation amounts
The level of donations required in order to receive the benefits described in these Terms and Conditions are:
- 2026 Crows Members Early Bird Price - $450 (using codeword)
- Early Bird pricing will be available to 2026 financial AFC members.
- Eligible members will be provided a codeword to use when completing their donation on the Pledge Your Picket website, which will provide them with the discounted price above.
- This discounted price will be available to eligible members from Tuesday 18 November 2025 until Monday 8 December 2025.
- Following this period, early bird pricing will not be available to members.
- General Public and Standard Price - $500
- Standard pricing will be applicable from Tuesday 9 December 2025.
2.4 Plaque Etching
By making the donation referred to in clause 2.3, you may have your name/s, family name/s or the name of a loved one or other message approved by the AFC etched on a Plaque to be installed on a picket in the Picket Fence.
For example:
John Smith
Smith Family
John and Jane Smith
In memory of John Smith
Please note, there is a limit of 55 characters.
The AFC reserves the right to reject any messaging that could be deemed offensive or inappropriate for any reason, as determined by AFC in its sole and absolute discretion. AFC reserves the right to change any requested wording which uses profanity or may offend anyone (as determined by AFC in its sole and absolute discretion).
The AFC will use reasonable endeavours to contact and consult with you via your nominated email address before any changes are made to the requested wording, and you will have 30 days to respond. If you do not respond, the AFC may modify the requested wording in its discretion or reject your application.
- Picket Donation Payment
Except where stated otherwise, all picket pledges are not subject to GST. All pledges displayed are in Australian Dollars (AUD).
3.1 Donation Payment Terms
By pledging for a picket, you accept full responsibility for:
- the accuracy and truth of the details they have provided, and you agree to notify the AFC should any such details change or be incorrect within 30 days from payment; and
- ensuring that there are sufficient clear funds available in the nominated account on the scheduled drawing date.
If a debit is returned or dishonoured by your financial institution, an email will be sent requesting payment. Any fees levied by the financial institution will be payable by you and the AFC accepts no liability for such fees. The AFC may suspend or cancel your Plaque if your payment is dishonoured by your financial institution, or if the AFC does not receive the required donation amount in full (after any deductions such as transaction fees, currency conversion etc).
3.2 Payment Options
Payment is upfront via EFT, credit card or PayPal. There are no deferred payment plan options available.
3.3 Tax Deductible Receipt
The ASF will email you a tax-deductible receipt after the payment of the donation, if it was requested at the time of the donation.
The ASF is a deductible gift recipient established by the Australian Government to raise funds through public and corporate donations for the development of sport in Australia. The AFC has registered this campaign as a project with the ASF.
The donation will be made subject to the ASF's terms and conditions and applicable policies (including privacy policy). By submitting your application you acknowledge and agree to those terms and policies. The ASF (not the AFC) is responsible for those terms and conditions and for notifying them to you.
- Refunds Policy
Your donation to the Adelaide Football Club's Pledge Your Picket campaign is made to the ASF for the benefit of the Adelaide Football Club. The ASF is a Deductible Gift Recipient - Type 1 which enables donations of $2 or more to be tax-deductible specifically for Sport in Australia.
As per the ASF’s terms and conditions, all donations are non-refundable.
- Non Transferable
The approved wording will be etched on the Plaque and placed into the Picket Fence for a period of ten years from its installation in 2027, and is not changeable or transferrable.
The AFC retains ownership of the picket and Plaque and no property rights in them are given to or held by you.
- Location of Pickets
Adelaide Football Club reserves the right to allocate the location of the picket bearing your Plaque within the Picket Fence at its sole discretion.
- Damage to Pickets
The Adelaide Football Club will repair or replace the picket and/or Plaque if there is any material damage in the 10-year period of the pledge/campaign (fair wear and tear excepted, including as a result of exposure to the elements). While the AFC will endeavour to repair or replace damaged pickets and Plaques promptly, you acknowledge and agree that there may be a delay of uncertain duration before this work may be completed (due for example to manufacturing or production timeframes, game/match fixtures and other works at the precinct).
- Privacy and Terms of Use of Adelaide Football Club Membership Website
8.1 Privacy
The AFC collects your personal information to communicate with you in relation to the Pledge Your Picket Campaign and any future AFC campaigns, process your donation, produce your Plaque, and otherwise facilitate your participate in the Campaign. The AFC may collect your personal information from the ASF in connection with your donation.
The AFC may disclose your personal information to the ASF and other third parties such as service providers for purposes relating to the Campaign. The AFC is not likely to disclose your personal information to any overseas recipients.
By providing your personal information you agree it will be disclosed to, and used by, the AFC under the terms of this statement and the AFC's Privacy Policy (https://www.afc.com.au/privacy-policy), which contains information about how you may access and seek to correct your personal information or complain about a breach of your privacy, and how the AFL and the Adelaide Football Club will deal with such a complaint.
You specifically agree that any information etched onto the Plaque will be visible to any member of the public (and thus effectively disclosed to them).
If you provide the personal information of anyone else to us, you agree to inform them of the circumstances in which we have collected that information, the details under this clause 8, and about our Privacy Policy.
You may choose not to provide the AFC with certain information, though this may affect the service that you receive and may prevent the AFC from fulfilling your donation. As such you accept any consequences or loss of rights due to that choice.
8.2 Use of content
Through donating for a picket, you provide consent to the use of your personal information and the messaging on the Plaque by AFC for marketing and promotional purposes, on a perpetual basis, without any compensation, including to publish content on the AFC's website including social tiles, and on third-party websites such as social media platforms.
8.3 Opting out of Communications
You may opt out of receiving any mail or email communications pertaining to the Pledge Your Picket Campaign at any time by:
- following the relevant unsubscribe instructions contained in any electronic communication which you receive from the AFC;
- writing to the AFC to the attention of Adelaide Football Club Pledge Your Picket Campaign at 105 West Lakes Boulevard, West Lakes SA 5021, requesting cancellation of these email or mail communications;
- emailing the AFC at pickets@afc.com.au requesting cancellation of these email or mail communications; or
- contacting the AFC on (08) 8440 6666.
8.4 Change of Personal Details
You are responsible for notifying the AFC should your personal details change, including contact details or any other relevant information that could affect the donation to the AFC. Please notify changes to us promptly (and within 30 days you’re your payment if any details in your application are incorrect or have changed).
- Amendment of the Terms and Conditions
The AFC may vary these terms and conditions at any time in its discretion, acting reasonably. The AFC will give notice of any amendments to these terms and conditions by:
- email sent to the email address you notified to us via the registration page or in any subsequent communication we receive from you updating your contact details; or
- posting the revised terms and conditions on pickets.afc.com.au.
The AFC will determine how best to communicate changes to these Terms and Conditions considering the nature of the changes. You agree that notification by email or publication on the website as described above will constitute sufficient notice to you of changes to these Terms and Conditions.
- General
These Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of South Australia. Each party submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of courts exercising jurisdiction there in connection with matters concerning these Terms and Conditions.
No failure to exercise or delay in exercising any right, power or remedy by the AFC under these Terms and Conditions operates as a waiver of that right, power or remedy by the AFC.
Any clause or provision of these Terms and Conditions that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction is ineffective as to that jurisdiction solely to the extent of the prohibition or unenforceability. That does not invalidate the remaining clauses or provisions of these Terms and Conditions or affect the validity or enforceability of that clause or provision in any other jurisdiction.
- Further Information
For further information or clarification on the Adelaide Football Club, please email pickets@afc.com.au or call 08 8440 6666.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding the AFC Pledge Your Picket Campaign can be viewed at: pickets.afc.com.au
