tomturd Posted May 13, 2006 Report Share Posted May 13, 2006 'Lo all,Some of you may know I'm going to be driving to Mongolia this summer (starting 22nd July from Hyde Park) on the Mongol Rally. As part of the deal my team needs to raise £1000 for charity. Theres 3 of us, so really I need to be looking at raising about £333 - ideally more like £500 though just in case my team mates don't manage to raise their 333 quids.The interesting bit is that everyone on the rally has to drive a car under 1000cc. Luckily for us we have a car sorted - my parents 23ish year old X reg 959cc (I think) Fiesta Mk1. And its beige.The money raised goes to Send A Cow and some Mongolian charity that hasnt been decided yet. When/if we get to Mongolia the car will be auctioned off, and the money raised from the auction also goes to charity. There are 200 cars going, so that should hopefully be more than £200,000 raised in total.My intial plan is to hold a raffle on TF. Bikedock owe me £80 and i'm more than happy to put that up as £50 vouchers for the first prize, £20 second prize, £10 third prize (or whatever). Hopefully I will be able to get some other trials/bike related companies to sponsor in some prizes as well - in return for a sticker on the car, lots of photo's of the car in various places between here and Mongolia, and some good publicity on the forum. The idea is to have a whole bunch of prizes, sell a whole bunch of tickets at 50p/£1/whatever each and have a whole bunch of people winning various prizes. All the money paid for tickets will have to go through justgiving.org - they will donate the money straight to charity.Um anyway yeah, thats my idea. Any thoughts on that? Any other suggestions on how I can raise some cash? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Posted May 13, 2006 Report Share Posted May 13, 2006 for local fund raising you could . . Shave your headboxing matchsponsored run/swim loads of stuff realllyraffle sounds good though, would have to use paypal ideally though could do a big car boot salegigalo?sponsored pub crawl? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobnobs Posted May 13, 2006 Report Share Posted May 13, 2006 I would be interested in giving parts for the raffle, or money to spend with BTC. Email me if you wanna talk details Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoyoyo Posted May 13, 2006 Report Share Posted May 13, 2006 Car wash, always seems to work for people. Not sure how. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoo Posted May 13, 2006 Report Share Posted May 13, 2006 Dont forget setting up a lemonade stand,or you could do one of them where people pay to kiss you.zoo baby! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davetrials Posted May 13, 2006 Report Share Posted May 13, 2006 Oooooooooooooo how much for a kiss tom.*******1st gay joke towards tom, by me***********EVER! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted May 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2006 Oooooooooooooo how much for a kiss tom.*******1st gay joke towards tom, by me***********EVER!1st one on TF I think, yeah lol. But its part of daily life in reality My going rate is £1 for girls, 20p for boys (buy one get one free). (quotes ahoy)Cheers for the offer Phil, If I do do a raffle then I'll be in touch Id prefer not to have to.. you know.. work to raise money, if it comes to that then I'll have to but hopefully I'll be able to raise some money through getting sponsored - in return for some publicity for the companies that sponsor us. So far we have an ice cream van company who'll give us £50 or something, and my mates doing a gig which should bring in a fair bit.My mates have suggested a group skin head, but anyone who's met me will realise I'll look like a cancer victim if I got my head shaved, and I don't really want people feeling sorry for me and donating money 'cos they think I have cancer. I think it might also raise our chances of getting mugged by about 300%.A boxing match could be interesting. One of the people i'm going with is also a bit of a pansy, so all the more fun. I'll look into it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Plod Posted May 13, 2006 Report Share Posted May 13, 2006 (edited) I know this isn't really an idea... but I'd throw in say 20 quid just as a donation if you wanted. Its for a good cause so why not Just let me know if you'd accept it. Edited May 13, 2006 by College Boy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManxTrialSpaz Posted May 14, 2006 Report Share Posted May 14, 2006 You could always start easy. Go around door to door with a sponsor sheet saying what you are doing and how much you need to raise and say you were wondering if they'll sponsor you. Also use a ctachphrase--"Every little helps" ?Then tyr car washes, bag packing etc. Rind companies and see if they'll sponsor you, say you'll do the rally in Gumball fashion with your car covered with sponsor stickers. If you have a little brother or ssiter, make it look like they are homeles, see how much money they can make on the street. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janson Posted May 14, 2006 Report Share Posted May 14, 2006 if you give buyall some publicity (= massive bonnet sticker)they might chip in a few quid, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robwalker Posted May 14, 2006 Report Share Posted May 14, 2006 Ring up your local news and see if they can do a bit on the evening news for you, then ask anyone intersted in sponsering you to e-mail you whatever.Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si-man Posted May 14, 2006 Report Share Posted May 14, 2006 Sel ur arse on blackpool prom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_Fel Posted May 14, 2006 Report Share Posted May 14, 2006 A boxing match could be interesting. One of the people i'm going with is also a bit of a pansy, so all the more fun. I'll look into it Swerve the boxing Ultimate fighting is the thing to do.I'll give you a tenner if you want a fight i'd love to kick the shit out of you...ha ha ha only messing I've got no beef with you.Here's a good idea a sponsord trialsforum bitching thread you have to pay £1 a post and bitch about anyone you like...Scrap that I'd be skint lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davetrials Posted May 14, 2006 Report Share Posted May 14, 2006 i dunno ive tried that, now ive got aids.to simon lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendee Posted May 14, 2006 Report Share Posted May 14, 2006 defo a good idea to ring your local paper and ask them to do a article on you and ask for donations, my brother did a similar thing as he needed money for some uni stuff and he got far more than he had expected, he had people donating 100 quid a time it was mental. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tank_rider Posted May 14, 2006 Report Share Posted May 14, 2006 team pink panda have done very well selling t-shirts, they were a tenner and cost about 2-3 each to make, so you can make a fair bit of money reasonably quickly. They have sold upwards of 140 so far i believe!!That is with two people at different uni's, and having half the mountaineering club buy then for the team pink panda social which was arranged. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT! Posted May 14, 2006 Report Share Posted May 14, 2006 Raffle tickets seem like a good idea to me, i'll buy a few of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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