Advice Needed For 24 hour Charity Event - Details Inside

Peanut Butter Jelly wrote: »

Hi everyone,

I have an idea for raising money for a charity which is won't name in case it's breaking advertising rules. My problem is that I have literally no idea of any permits or paperwork I need for it.

This is the base plan. I am aiming to spend 24 hours locked in a see through box in a car park in Ballina, Co. Mayo in June/July. I want to collect money via a collection box during the event and also run a PayPal in the run up to it. What is need help with is as follows:

What permits will I need?
Will I need health services (Order of Malta)?
Where can I get security personnel?
Do it need to contact the town or county councils?

Hmmm To be honest I don't know what you'd legally need because it's a very different event.

Off the top of my head I'd think you'd need (or at least want) insurance for the event and the insurance company would be the best ones to advise you in terms of security/health personnel that they'd require you to have before they'd provide cover. (I would say that personally I'd choose to have some sort of security presence because the last thing I'd want is some drunken prats thinking it'd be great fun to piss on the box in the middle of the night..)

You don't say if you'd be fasting or not but you'd also want to think about necessities like water if it's a hot day and "facilities" for dealing the any "waste" you might create

In terms of permits again I would ring the county council and they can fill you in on what you need permits wise (and actually the charity should have a good idea of the requirements permit wise too - they might even have permits in place allowing them to do street collections etc.)