Charity Wrist Bands

dceire

Dose anyone know where REAL charity wrist bands can be found the likes of the 'Stand up speak up' anti racism bands. A few friends of mine got fake ones but that just defeats the purpose really

Only Human

dceire wrote:

Dose anyone know where REAL charity wrist bands can be found the likes of the 'Stand up speak up' anti racism bands. A few friends of mine got fake ones but that just defeats the purpose really

Internet.

Mourinho's_love

dceire wrote:

Dose anyone know where REAL charity wrist bands can be found the likes of the 'Stand up speak up' anti racism bands. A few friends of mine got fake ones but that just defeats the purpose really

I red n TSR I think that only 10% of product price goes to charity!

TOPDAWG

Champions sports got the racism ones a few weeks back in but they were limited to 4 per person. Fair enough cos a lot of people are losing track of what their about and buying them cos their "IN" thing! Iv had kids offer to buy mine from me, kinda sums it up really!

Suaimhneach

Fuc|<ing Fashion Victims.

jellybabyjane

i can't stand the sight of those bands! i must be one of the few people my age who doesnt have any. Yeah they're for a good cause (the real ones that is.people sellling fake ones or even real ones at a profit are sick.i've even heard of kids charging a tenner for those yellow ones) but do you really need to have a coloured band to prove to people you've given money to charity.theres no way you could want them for any other reason,they're ugly .if i was to buy one id just stick it in a drawer

mycroft

dceire wrote:

Dose anyone know where REAL charity wrist bands can be found the likes of the 'Stand up speak up' anti racism bands. A few friends of mine got fake ones but that just defeats the purpose really

Oxfam are selling the make poverty history bands for a euro. All proceeds go to charity, and the band is made from a weave from a woman's collective in the developing world.

Raphael

I bought a green one from a friend who was selling him. Since he was a friend, I trusted him twas for charity. Don't wear it though.

Mr Rivers

It defeats the ideas of a selfless act. But if it gets trendy people to give money then it can't be all bad. stupid trendy people.

Mixie

jellybabyjane wrote:

do you really need to have a coloured band to prove to people you've given money to charity.theres no way you could want them for any other reason

To promote awareness perhaps?

Lump

www.laf.org

John

arbeitsscheuer

Mixie wrote:

To promote awareness perhaps?

Good point.

I don't have any bands, hate the "trendiness" of the whole thing. But maybe I lost sight of the whole reason for the wristbands idea; Promote awareness, as you say, and highlight issues that people just don't think about enough. But tbh I don't need a wristband to remind me of such issues, or to prove that I give to charity, so...

vasch_ro

i got some in marks and sparks for ronan keatings charity

Adam

I got one long before they struck as a trend an now my friends have pointed at it and referred to it as a "knacker-band"! I have the Childline one that says Listen, and i wore it because at first people would ask what it was in which case I could tell them and they'd buy one, because I saw it as a good fund raiser. The trendiness of it now disgusts me so much i've stopped wearing it...

Sleepy

I ordered one of the Make Poverty History ones but it never came

steveland?

Funnily enough I bought one last night... my friends mam is selling them because she's going to Africa so she's selling the "Rebuild" green band thingies...

I'll never wear the thing though....

jellybabyjane

yeah its true enough that they promoted awareness at the start but how many people actually know what they're in aid of.I'm sure that if you asked someone what each band they had was for, they couldnt tell you