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Christmas Charity Ball - Game Ideas
I am organising a Christmas Ball in late November and am trying to find games to play that will help raise lots of money for the charity between courses. I have done Heads and Tails in the past and don't want anything formal like an auction. We will be running a raffle, but I'm looking for something fun to do to - bearing…
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Need to raffle off spare alcohol!
Myself and my partner volunteer for a charity close to our hearts and we have some spare alcohol left over from a fundraising event. Just wondering if there's a good way of getting rid of it without losing money on it! Obviously we can't sell it as we don't have an alcohol licence. We've put some of it on a raffle in…
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Race for Life - 12 July @ Chelmsford
My sister is taking part in the 5k race for life in Chelmsford on 12 July 2015. We lost our mother to cervical cancer nearly 7 years ago after a painful battle with the disease at the age of 57. If anyone would like to donate the link to her page is: https://www.justgiving.com/andreaclapperton/ Thank you.
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Bra Donations?
Hi everyone, I was wondering if you can help me. I have a bin bag full of bras which are in good condition but no use to me and wanted to donate them to a breast cancer charity. I was wondering if anyone knew if Lorraine Kelly's bin your bra campaign is going to happen again? Or whether there is anywhere where I can donate…
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donating furniture
I have to clear some larger furniture from my mothers flat as it is about to be sold, but I can't find anyone to take it and it's too good just to dump. Any suggestions? We've tried the hospice that helped mum, a couple of other local charities but none want larger furniture, they will take nothing larger than a side table.
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Calling all Cat lovers can you help little Saffron
Apart from using the compers board I volunteer for my local branch of Cats Protection Recently we took in a little kitten of 9 months old called Saffron who was heavily pregnant. After a traumatic birth she had 4 kittens but was really poorly herself We took her to the vet and she has a sort of hernia and various bits and…
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Flower Festival
I'm currently in the process of trying to organise a church flower festival with afternoon tea etc afterwards. Anyone any tips on how to get napkins / table runnerrs / stationary designs etc at a good price. Currently researching on ebay / amazon...
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Race for Life
I am taking part in the 10k race for life tomorrow, at 3pm. I lost my sister to cervical cancer nearly 9 years ago, at the age of 28, after a long battle. She left behind 2 young children. This charity is so close to my heart and is such an emotional day. If anyone would like to donate to my page, my link is :- Thankyou.…
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Not asking for money, just votes please
EASTON GYMNASTICS CLUB Please can people think about giving the Gym Club my son has been going to for years some Aviva Community Fund Votes. Today, 30th May, is the last day voting is open and we are slightly behind a couple of other clubs. :( I can't seem to put the full address for the votes, but if you google Aviva…
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BT MyDonate - Putting Off Offseas Donors?
Every year my family does a walk for Kidney Research UK. The first year we setup an online donation site via the Kidney Research UK site, but people complained because it had zero functionality, was hard to use and didn't have any social connectors or ability to accept Paypal or text donations. The following two years we…
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Nepal disaster and Facebook
It was good of Martin to mention the DEC appeal for Nepal in this week's email... My Facebook page bears an announcement that donations made through a special link will be matched by a donation from Facebook. Has anyone checked the small print to verify whether this really is a way to make every penny go further, or is…
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Mr Sainsbury
A couple of days ago I converted my nectar points into mosquito nets with the Oxfam promotion where the Government matches your donation. Yesterday I put Joe fuel in the car and this morning I have fed a family. Everyone should be doing it while Joe is giving 10 times points on fuel, 1 tank is more than half a gift
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Beanstalk Charity
I've been thinking of doing some sort of voluntary work again and have been looking at a few different options. I've just be listening to a lady on our local radio who was trying to get people involved in the 'Beanstalk Charity' which helps primary school kids who are having problems with reading. She said most of their…
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How long to keep client records?
Is anyone sure about this? We no longer provide mental health advocacy under contract, and the new contract holders don't want our files. Anyone know how long we have to keep the files for? (We think it's 6 years :( This does seem unfair - storage costs money and I know that most govt departments have severe difficulties…
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Elite Grand National Sweepstakes Donations
This thread is to enable members of the Elite thread who took part in the Grand National Sweepstakes to make their donations to the winners chosen charity. Well done vouchercrazy for being the winner of List 1. Vouchercrazy has chosen Menengitis research and donations can be made using this link…
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Animal lovers,can you help this wonderful cause ?
They do fantastic work and have just rescued another 4 abused elephants.So many more would be suffering in India if it wasn't for this charity. http://wildlifesos.org/ and for those with facebook https://www.facebook.com/wildlifesosindia which gives updates on the current rescue. Thank you.
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Would you demand a refund?
If the Red Cross charged your bank £1.00 without your consent, claiming you 'must' have clicked a box when buying something to consent this, and you know you haven't since you never donate money?
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Someone regarding an idea as "theirs" because it came through them...
I've done loads of voluntary work over many years now personally...but haven't encountered this particular scenario before now personally. The scenario being that someone came up with/pushed a particular idea of theirs for something that would be of benefit to the community....but then tried to act like they are "in…
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Sponsorship for London Marathon
Not sure if this is on the right board but my young niece Tasha is running the London Marathon for Leukemia and Lymphoma Research. We lost my Dad to vicious acute myeloid leukemia so this is a cause very close to the families hearts. This is Tashas first full marathon taking after her father who has over 100 under his belt…
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Setting questions for a general knowledge charity quiz
Hi Folks I have been asked to set up questions for a local charity quiz. The categories range from Film & TV, History, News & Current Affairs, Science & Nature, and Sport. I don't want the questions to be too hard, and on the other hand make them too easy. I was wondering if it would be best just to copy some questions…
