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Raising money for charity (Ideas needed)

Slippin Jimmy · 2006-06-10 20:37:22

Ok. My girlfriend wants to raise money for charity again. We need ideas. I want to help her this time. I was thinking of going ab sailing down Ballymun Towers or sometin like that. Is that oppertunity gone? If anyone has any ideas in general, plaese post them. I think she is doing it for Crumlin hospital. She just told me…

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Ok. My girlfriend wants to raise money for charity again. We need ideas. I want to help her this time. I was thinking of going ab sailing down Ballymun Towers or sometin like that. Is that oppertunity gone? If anyone has any ideas in general, plaese post them. I think she is doing it for Crumlin hospital. She just told me she wants to do something on the ground?

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#2 10-06-2006 8:40pm

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You could try this forum: Volunteerism as another source.

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#3 10-06-2006 8:42pm

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Sponsored headshave, lots of chuckles and larfs too

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#4 10-06-2006 8:44pm

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Ruu wrote:

Sponsored headshave, lots of chuckles and larfs too

We did it in school already, but it didn't quite work out.

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#5 10-06-2006 8:51pm

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Silver circle or raffles

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#6 10-06-2006 8:53pm

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Plug wrote:

Silver circle or raffles

What is silver circle? I don't think a raffle would work as we would have to get prizes and that.

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#7 10-06-2006 8:56pm

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servant for a day auction? depends on how many volunteers you can get though

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#8 10-06-2006 8:58pm

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the Shades wrote:

servant for a day auction? depends on how many volunteers you can get though

In total there are four of us. Servant for a day could be an option.

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#9 10-06-2006 8:58pm

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Back in the dark days when people couldn't sell their houses and others couldn't afford to buy them, they used to raffle them off. Most people I know would blow €5-10 on a raffle ticket to win a house. I'm ****e at maths so can't really work out how many you'd need to sell to cover the owner's asking price plus costs plus a tidy profit for charity to make it worthwhile. It's an idea at any rate.

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#10 10-06-2006 9:00pm

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the Shades wrote:

servant for a day auction? depends on how many volunteers you can get though

Sounds good, would need more than four of you for that to go well.

How about doing a sponsored run or something?

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#11 10-06-2006 9:03pm

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iFight wrote:

How about doing a sponsored run or something?

Yeah I was thinking of that myself, something along the lines of the mini maraton or sometin like that. Is there any runs or events like that coming up?

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#12 10-06-2006 9:08pm

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Have a race night/auction or something in a pub,charge a fee at the door.Tell anybody that will listen that there will be a free bar on till 9pm,buy yourself a big box of Mars bars and put them in the corner.When people ask about the free bar send them to the corner for there free mars bar.

You should now have a bar full of people early and should be able to sell loads of stuff.If anybody complains tell them that binge drinking is SO 90s.

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#13 10-06-2006 11:39pm

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it annoys me that the likes of crumlin have to fundraise,why arent governement giving them enough????

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#14 10-06-2006 11:43pm

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sponsored jobswap (eg. with the boss) is always a good'un

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#15 10-06-2006 11:45pm

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Go chugging.

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#16 10-06-2006 11:46pm

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Just did an absiel down the europa hotel in belfast today. Its great craic , if you organise it properly you'll get loads of support. We manage to raise over £5,000 today from it.

Also 5 a side football or dodgeball tournaments are really good at getting the cash in.

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#17 10-06-2006 11:51pm

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keep the suggestions comin, folks

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#18 10-06-2006 11:53pm

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Karoma wrote:

Go chugging.

A sponsored chug Everybody's happy!

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#19 11-06-2006 12:00am

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Lone Wolf wrote:

Also 5 a side football or dodgeball tournaments are really good at getting the cash in.

Dodgeball sounds fun, you could organise teams and all you'd need would be a local hall, small fee to sign up and sponsorship on top of it and you could be onto a winner, especially after the movie. Great idea!

Just remember the 4 Ds

"If you can dodge a spanner you can dodge a dodgeball."

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#20 11-06-2006 9:39am

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There are some good ideas there. We are going to make out a list of them and see which ones we are going to do. But keep going with the ideas.

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#21 11-06-2006 9:44am

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Chugging sounds best. I'm gessing you're doing your JC from your posts in the JC boards and people can't refuse 15 year-olds jumping them on Grafton Street.

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#22 11-06-2006 10:02am

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BMH wrote:

Chugging sounds best. I'm gessing you're doing your JC from your posts in the JC boards and people can't refuse 15 year-olds jumping them on Grafton Street.

Yeah doing the JC, but I am 16, big difference I know:rolleyes: . Yeah she justs wants to raise a bit of dosh. We are getting a few people that are older than us to give us a hand aswell.

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