Payment for fundraisers?

Chuddles

Hello all,

First a little background...

I work for a large company that has asked for volunteers for a team event running & cycling across Morocco's Sahara & Atlas mountains in aid of the Princes Trust. The condition being raise £3300 each in sponsorship/donations.

We have race nights, raffles and bingo nights lined up for later in the year but I'm not feeling optomistic about reaching my part of the goal. I work 6 days a week, 12hr shifts mon-fri & 8hr Saturday leaving only Sunday to spend time with my disabled 2 year old daughter so I'm finding little time to get activley involved in fundraising.

Is it legal to ask others to fundraise on my behalf and offer the fundraiser say 10% payment on anything they raise? The payment would be made from my own pocket not from the funds they raised as if I fall short of this goal of £3300 I will have to make up the difference myself anyway.

Any comments or advice would be welcomed

saterkey

not sure on the legalities of the question you ask im sorry. I would imagine part of the doing and going is knowing that you have raised this money though not someone else, maybe try something smaller that you can manage to do yourself, wont use up all your holiday and take you away from your little girl for so long.
I wish you luck

Chuddles

Thanks for the reply,

The events we have organised should get us somewhere near halfway as we will share to proceeds between or personal targets.

I've been calling & writing letters to all local businesses & newspapers and have gathered a good amount of prizes for the raffles. It's not as though I'm doing nothing to raise the money its just I can't do anything but make calls from work as I'm always here. I work on an industrial site with 2 other staff so office style fundraising is out as well due to numbers.

randomfundraiser

this is probably a no, as all fund raisers for charity have to be verified through the police and county council. its also illegal to take money from people on the door now for multiple reasons including people skimming off the top, people praying on vulnurable people like the elderly and handicapped. I do actually work as a fund raiser atm though i am new, buuut i can tell you its also because we ourselves are classed as potential high risk targets for muggings which isnt exactly brilliant either. all charity stuff is done through direct debits now and thats all were allowed to do on door steps, so if thats the kind of fund raising your on about, i'd advise against it, but i dont see why you couldnt get someone to perhaps do a car boot or something on your behalf provided you trust them, and they let people know that it all goes to charity and not them aswell.. hope this helped :P