Tommy and I have been doing quite a bit since 'Event 2' on the weekend (report to follow) on getting this thing really motoring. Initially this challenge wasn't going to be about raising money, for a few reasons. Firstly this was a challenge we wanted to do as a personal feat rather than to give people a reason to donate to charity. And secondly because we thought that we would already be giving a fair bit of our money to various charities for taking part in the events.
We realized though that actually it didn't matter, we could pick a charity, set up a just giving page, and just have a place where people can donate to a cause that we believe in just to show support along the way. This way meant that we would also only ever be asking people to sponsor us once rather than 30 times!
We will, of course, be inviting anyone and everyone to join in the events with us, so having one place and one charity that we can get everyone to point their sponsors towards the easier and simpler the process can be for everyone.
We had a chat about who to raise money for and finally agreed on a fantastic charity, One Water. We chose One because they do some unbelievable work providing water to children in Africa amongst many other projects. We also have a connection with the charity itself and all of their profits go to straight to Africa.
One traditionally have raised funds through the selling of their bottled water, and do not rely on, nor ask for donations, but we thought that it was only fair that they received some donations from someone else's legwork.
So, go check out the great work they do at http://www.onedifference.org and our JustGiving page is now available at http://www.justgiving.com/30b430/.
We are not going to knock your door in for donations but of course if you want to show your support to the cause then chuck a few quid in.
Cheers
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