Charity Challenges
by This is my account of raising Funds for charity over twenty years, with a few tips on what to avoid and how to set up and event or challenge.
Charity Challenges
They are fun, do not have to be hard work and give the
competitors a lot of satisfaction by helping others
Who need it
With this quotation, one may think I do not know what I am talking about. Maybe they are right, but as a fund-raiser since 1988, I believe it can be true. It all depends on how big you want the event, how many people you want to involve, what is readily available to you in sponsorship and other resources required.
Yes I have learnt the hard way and some may think; is that all he managed to raise? It doesn
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t matter always, never expect to make the event bigger than you resources allow and most important do not go on an ego trip, you could end up with egg on your face as the saying goes. The main cause is the most important and more important than any individual taking part or organising the actual event.
Over the years I have helped organise and taken part in Dragon Boat Teams, Craft Fairs to even pulling a car around the countryside in order to raise funds to help others. Why? One would ask.
After the first one, I said
“Never again!”
True, I never did pull another car around the Worcestershire countryside clocking up over 47 miles in three days with the rest of the twenty strong team. working in relays of ten.
I discovered that it was not only a great event but also a great team building exercise with the whole company contributing in some way with the boss giving part sponsorship to get the event off the ground.
It was a few years later some of the company management organised a Dragon boat team which I enjoyed taking part. A few years after that I repeated the same event with another company, this time with me organising the team to raise money for the local branch of the Motor Neurone Disease Association after I had lost a friend to the condition.
I only had eight weeks to organise this, with contacting a friend from the other company. I had to plan ahead, doing a presentation to the company informing what they were raising money for and convincing them that the funds were needed to help people who were dying of Motor Neurone Disease.
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