Anyone else getting charity ride fatigue? :-/
I am doing one particularly big sponsored ride this year, my friends, relatives and colleagues will take enough convincing to give me money for this (as they know I enjoy cycling). So why do so many accessible and interesting sounding rides have to push the sponsored ride thing? :-(
I appreciate they are good causes and all, but surely you could take a moderate entry fee, give us a nice run in return and make a modest gain? If I skim through the ads in Cycling plus it seems to be a never-ending stream of charity this (just raise £X,XXX for us and you can...), sponsored that, doubtless good causes but good grief, can someone please do something original?!?
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Charity Ride Fatigue ?
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Posted 13 years ago #
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I limit any charity requests to one per year.
I also dislike those "challenges" whereby I seem to end up paying for someone to have a holiday (e.g. trekking in the Andes) on the basis that some of the money raised goes to a charity.
I'm thinking of doing a LeJog for Marie Curie this year. It's a £2k minimum sponsorship which I will pay myself - and anything else I raise will therefore go straight to the charity concerned.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Smudge - that is what the Glasgow Edinburgh one does. You just pay £30, they take in £200000 due to 7000 entrants (some kids on cheaper rate etc) I fancy the 100 mile route, but does go past my house at 90 miles.
Posted 13 years ago # -
I fancy the 100 mile route, but does go past my house at 90 miles
Unnofficial "water" stop then at Gembo's pad with malt, hops and barley added for vitamins etc.
I did two of Action Medicals 100-mile events last year and got family to chip in 50 or so quid then there is the 50 quid in entry fees. They still think I should give them more sponsorship money (it doesn't count if you do 2 events and make 1 contribution it seems) and point this out with monthly emails to my spam bin. Unfortunately unless I pay out my own pocket it isn't going to happen. Friends, family and colleagues are not of the opinion that they should be paying me to do something I enjoy and that I'm slightly competent at. Maybe they'd sponsor me to play footie or something. It's not that I grudge giving to charity (I do) or paying the 25,30 quid whatever for a good day out on a well organised ride, I just don't think anyone's going to give me money!
Anyway, agree with your sentimonies Smudge and the market for these pay and raise events seems saturated. I'm glad I've found the Audax UK calendar this year. Also, I've worked out that if you want to ride 60, 80, 100 miles wherever you want, you can do it for free :) (well, after essential cake and jelly baby running expenses)
Charidee "trips" (always seem to be to Machu Pichu, Thailand, Kenya, nice places like that) bring the worst in me - if they can raise £7,000 for a good cause, give it all to the good cause and pay for your £3,500 holiday yourself...
Posted 13 years ago #
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