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Archives for October 2006

MSRC Grand Christmas Draw
MSRC Grand Christmas Draw The Multiple Sclerosis Resource Centre are proud to announce the start of our Grand Christmas Draw. Prizes are as follows: 1st Prize £1000 2nd prize £500 3rd Prize £100 Other prizes include a Hamper, spirits, vouchers and much , much more!Prize Draw tickets come in books of 5 and are £1.00 per…
Primary School Webshop
Please consider helping our primary school raise some much needed funds when you're doing your Christmas Shopping. Log on to http://www.buy.at/rothwellstmarys- over 100 retailers listed - all earn commission which comes straight back into school. The school has a rather bland playground - nothing in it only a tarmac play…
Raising funds from Stamps
I buy postage stamps from charities to raise funds. I am not a business but just a private individual with 2 disabled children who wants to help any charity I can to fundraise in this way. I am a stamp collector so that helps too and I love sorting through to see if I can find a new stamp for my collection. The waste is…
petmillions.com support animal charities
I've been asking for votes for my entry in the petmillions.com contest on another board - just noticed this is the charity board. Petmillions official charity partners include many great animal charities worldwide, from the WSPA to Born Free to Cats Protection league and even the Rabbit fund! All these charities deserve…
Need full audience at OXJAM event.
Any ideas guys?! This is the main info, I've managed to get KUBB to play (My old guitarist) FREELANCE HELLRAISER (DJ who remixed all of Sir Paul's back catalogue) and CAT from RED DWARF to host it as well as 3 local bands, but I'm really worried no-ones gonna turn up. I've been handing out flyers, hitting message boards of…
Advice needed on the powers of the Charity Commision
Please forgive me if this is the wrong place to post but thought it maybe the best place. We have a neighbour from hell. My parents own our house and the neighbour is in a property run by a housing associaition that is a charity. We have had this woman threaten us with knives and to "Blow up your house" on several…
Far Forest Scout & Guide Group Webshop
As a group based in a very rural part of Worcestershire we are constantly searching for ways to keep the Scout & Guide HQ in good working order. We have now established a new webshop where you can make online purchases from many well known retailers. Providing you enter the retailers website via our website we receive a…
Women for Women Cycle India 2007
As three parents, we would like to ask for your support for a major challenge that we are undertaking to raise funds to improve the health of women and babies worldwide. In October 2007 we will be joining Professor Robert Winston and 200 other women in 'Women for 'Women - Cycle India. The aim is to cycle 390kms over five…
Help rescue wildlife without any cost to you!
A wildlife rescue charity in Salisbury,like many others,is struggling for funds.If you take a look at this website,it is a brilliant way of ordering goods in just the same way as you would normally but a percentage goes to the charity for their wonderful work in helping wildlife. I shall be using it from now on,and i am…
JSA and voluntary work
Am currently claiming JSA. Went for a position in a school last week but didn't get the post. It appears that the gap since I previously worked with children (7 years) was 'too great a hurdle for us to overcome'. Anyhow, I mentioned when signing on yesterday that it might be a good idea to apply for some voluntary work in…
Endangered dogs
We are thinking about getting a rescue dog & I came across this site endangereddogs.com.I'd like to send a few quid anom.(don't want....etc.)Do I just send cheque to the p.o box? I can't see their reg.no.Has any one dealt/heard of them?
need donations for my daughter's pre-school-merged threads
Hi there everyone this is my first ever post so not sure it's in the right place Would anyone now where or how i might get some donations for my daughter's pre-school. They are having an event on thursday the 9th of november to rais money to buy new school equipment ther are a registered charity so they rely soley on…
Cows 'n' Things
The latest gift idea from us, Help The Aged: Cows 'n' Things is an online gift shop produced by Help the Aged, an international charity fighting to free disadvantaged older people from poverty, isolation and neglect. 100 million older people in developing countries survive on less than fifty pence a day making them among…
Donating Clubcard & Nectar Points
:confused: I've been looking at re-cycling some old mobile phones and donating the money to charity. With Tesco though I noticed that their is the the option of either collecting the clubcard points for yourself of "donating" to charity (which I guess is a cash alternatative????). If it was actually donating the clubcard…
Great Wall of China For Breast Cancer
Hello, this is scary my first post!!!! I am walking the great wall of china for Breakthrough Breast cancer Charity, and I have pledged to rasie over £3000 for the charity. I am self funding (with all the money i have saved on this site!!!) so all the money i raise will go to the charity! Knowing you are all such a great…
charity auction
hi i have placed an item on ebay with all proceeds going to NSPCC. All i ask is that you place this item in your watch list on ebay, to try and build up some interest.many many thanks item no 110044972363
Ideas for donation to a Charity Auction
Hi All, I have about £60 to buy something to put in a charity auction/raffle (to raise money for the Macmillan Cancer Fund), but I'm struggling to come up with ideas! Does anybody have any ideas of anything that I could get for the auction? Any ideas are appreciated as I don't have any at all! Thanks
Breast Cancer Help
I just got an email from a friend about the Breast Cancer Site:- I am sure it is genuine, so if you can put this in your daily routine of clicking recurring Rpoints/iPoints, or whatever, then you won't gain any points out of it but hopefully you will help save lives. Just go to their website and when you see the image…
magictaxi.co.uk - search engine supporting charities
I've seen this advertised on my local Scope shop window today, I thought I would post it here. What is MagicTaxi? It's such a simple idea. Imagine a search engine powered by the biggest names on the internet. Easy-to-use, fast and effective, delivering results without fuss. MagicTaxi does all of that. And at the same time…
I wanna raise the profile of Dog rescues - please read
http://www.rykat.org/forums/index.php?showforum=89 Have an auction on their site at the moment - if anyone feels like dropping in and having a look, they could do with the funds ;) It's not quite ebay, much more entertaining and they can say what they like in their listings :rotfl: If you feel you can help, it would be…

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