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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostSome charities are very good. My sister-in-law works for Royal Blind Society Home Page. - very very low fund raising costbase. There are a couple of others we support too.
If you want to give but don't like "corporate charity" then find a local care home or a church which does work in the community or a youth centre or a food bank or similar... feed into your local area.
There are thousands of people scraping by on £10k a year, dedicated to trying to keep youths off the street by organising a local football team or whatever... they will really use every penny.
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Originally posted by k2p2 View PostWhen I was in the civil service, they used to do that with leaving collections. A couple of people would go into town to buy a present. Parking, petrol and a boozy lunch were legitimate expenses to be deducted from the collected fund. Shocking.
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostHad some mates at Uni who one night got dressed up in fancy dress, got a bucket, put a load of coins in it and
headed out on the town for comic relief or some such thing at the time. First pub they ask and do a rattle, round thanking everyone. Next pub they turned up didn't rattle it but bought themselves a beer from the bucket. They did this for the whole night , got wasted before spending the remainder on a curry, taxi home and beers from the
offy. Disgraceful.
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Originally posted by Paddy View PostSome years ago I did a stint at a charity, most of the money was raised from gifts, the money was invested and the profits used for the charity. Collecting from sponsored events and street collections were just PR stunts. They used to organise collection days where members of staff would rattle tines. It would involve staff staying away overnight and coming back next day. The hotel bill would be around £200, plus travel £60 plus meals etc. They normally raised about £100 per person.
headed out on the town for comic relief or some such thing at the time. First pub they ask and do a rattle, round thanking everyone. Next pub they turned up didn't rattle it but bought themselves a beer from the bucket. They did this for the whole night , got wasted before spending the remainder on a curry, taxi home and beers from the
offy. Disgraceful.
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostI am presently planning a Charity Trek which Im hoping that CUK members will give to. Knowing what a generous lot contractors are I'm sure you'll be giving.
Effectively it's going to be called Chasing The Aurora. I need to be able to raise the money for a train fair to the Yorkshire Moors an the hire of a pushbike where I then plan to cycle around at night with a camera and stay at inexpensive 5 star hotels and eat in cheap Michelin star restaurants.
I've done some calculations and it's going to cost around
£10k. Once I've raised the necessary fees anything after that is going to go to a charity of some kind.
Please give generously.
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I am presently planning a Charity Trek which Im hoping that CUK members will give to. Knowing what a generous lot contractors are I'm sure you'll be giving.
Effectively it's going to be called Chasing The Aurora. I need to be able to raise the money for a train fair to the Yorkshire Moors an the hire of a pushbike where I then plan to cycle around at night with a camera and stay at inexpensive 5 star hotels and eat in cheap Michelin star restaurants.
I've done some calculations and it's going to cost around
£10k. Once I've raised the necessary fees anything after that is going to go to a charity of some kind.
Please give generously.
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Some charities are very good. My sister-in-law works for Royal Blind Society Home Page. - very very low fund raising costbase. There are a couple of others we support too.
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Although close family members died of it, I stopped giving to Cancer Research when I found out just how much of their budget was spent on anti-smoking propoganda posters.
As though we all don't know the risks already, and each with a great big logo, to raise their public profile.
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Did a year with one of the big charridees. Shocking place, all the senior managers drove company BMW 5s, and we wasted at least 30Mil of a 70 mil IT project I worked on. I will never give these idiots a penny of my cash.
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Originally posted by stek View Postthe host ripped him apart when he tried to get him to admit what he meant was 97% of the DECLARED PROFIT, not the income, most of that went on Mercs, jollies, bonuses and shameless guilt advertising
Originally posted by SimonMac View PostAnyone who is paid to raise money for a charity kinda defeats the idea in my opinion
A small charity can work on zero costs, the same way a contractor can develop a plan B for £0. But that doesn't scale.
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostCharity.
I don't like to talk about it.
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostCharity.
I don't like to talk about it.
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostCharity.
I don't like to talk about it.
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