#24

Help for heroes and most of the animal ones

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#25

Just one example: https://lifecharity.org.uk/

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#26

Age does as well there. If it was a 5 year old neice or something I’d probably pitch in. If it was an ATD, then I’d probably take them aside and question what they’re up to.

#27

It does though because I’ve had people ask me before and the gist was a large amount of money was going towards them flying out and pissing about having fun for 4 weeks and then a couple of days building a school or something.
How about I give you the money so you don’t go and all of that can go towards the charity?

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#28

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#29

My general rule of thumb is: ‘is doing this activity a huge achievement / amount of effort / overcoming a massive fear for this particular person?’ If yes, then I’m happy to sponsor them. But I’m not going to sponsor joe blogs to do a sky dive when actually it’ll be a bunch of fun for them.

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#30

Half marathon

  • Yes
  • No

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10km run

  • Yes
  • No

0 voters

5km run

  • Yes
  • No

0 voters

Colour run

  • Yes
  • No

0 voters

#31

Bloody hell

#32

Obviously only ever donate towards a charitable cause, not the actual activity.

#33

Not even if the money helps a load of people who need it?

#34

kids>illnesses/disabilities>animals>old people

#35

definitely has to be some level of suffering involved for the person participating, basically

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#36

Ever seen people collecting for charities in supermarkets by offering to pack your shopping? I donate to those twats just to stop them doing it all wrong, so the bar for me in terms of acceptable activities is pretty low.

#37

Most certainly not! See my example above.

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#38

I question these ones cause I’m like really you’re also just going to make yourself feel good and have an experienceee maaan and you’re going to come back a total toss pot for doing it so no i ain’t adding a tenner to that. I’ll give it directly to the charity. Thanks!

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#39

Find it very difficult to actually fundraise - doing it atm - and the idea of flooding peoples social media/emails etc. with “hey sponsor me!” when actually, it’s something I have wanted to do for a while and kind of selifshly it’s an excuse to do it. I mean, it’s raising several hundred quid for Shelter, which I’m going to feel really proud of. And I guess half the people who e.g. run marathons are doing this too. Dunno

#40

I will donate to anything that’s for charity, I wouldn’t donate if the sponsorship was to fund the thing itself

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#41

Well I don’t really think this is the place for a pro-life/pro-choice debate but to some people, that charity is useful.

#42

Nope. Because there are so many sponsorship requests out there and so many other charity donations potential that there needs to be a way of filtering out which ones I want to donate to. If I donated to every one that came across my path I’d be bankrupt.

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#43

Animals are great though

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