- I recommend collaborating with your local recreation center or parks and recreation department. They would be able to get the word out to all there participates and it would make your turnout better.
- What you should do is pick a evening or saturday morning to run the event. Set aside about two to four hours. Be collecting through out the year, you need to set a trash can bin somewhere in the recreation office for people to drop off cleats. On the day of have some one taking cleats and tying the shoe strings together then labeling the size with a piece of paper (staple). Then have bins for the different sizes, I would have a bin for each size just for a range of sizes or have tables with the cleats sitting out or out across the ground.
- Marketing: Make posters and hang at the local recreation centers. Be sure and get the information out to coaches so that they can get the word out to there players and parents. Have flyers for parents to pickup as the register there child. Make signs to put outside of the facility(along the road) in which you have the swap.
- Make the event free unless you are wanting to make money off of donate shoes for a charity. Allow for some to come without any shoes to trade.
- Look into local thrift stores for cleats that may have been given to them and see if they would be willing to donate them to your event for it never hurts to ask.

I want to organize a soccer shoe, shin guard swap in the spring and I have no idea what I'm doing. Has anyone done this before? Any information is good information!
Thanks.