What happened to the charity fund raising?
What happened to the charity fund raising?
A little patience please.Originally Posted by Raffe
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
I'd agree with supporting smaller charities rather than the larger ones as the well known names tend to receive a huge amount of donations and funding, a fair amount of which gets wasted or spent on items the general public would not be pleased to have their money spent on.
If I may, I'd like to nominate S.A.R.A.I D - Search and Rescue Assistance in Disasters, the Search and Rescue team that I am a member of.
The team is a small , independent charity, receives no government or lottery funding and has no paid staff, premisis etc.
As well as training for /attending disasters, the team members are also the ones responsible for raising the funds necessary for the team to do their work.
All money donated goes directly to training, equipping team members (who also purchaes a lot of their kit / equipment out of their own pockets) and to paying for the team deployments to assist in overseas disasters.
More details of the team and the work do can be found here
www.saraid.org.uk
We are registered with Virgin so no problems there
Last edited by Kris; 13th January 2013 at 12:08.
It's up and running now, please be generous :-)
http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/TZ-UK
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
Donated, well done Eddie for getting this off the ground.
Done.
Wholeheartedly support this initiative.
Martin.
Happy to have donated, hope we can reach the target soon!
Can I suggest adding the link to the donation page on the first post in the thread or start a new thread wit it stickied as someone else said.
It is a bit hidden down at the bottom of page 2. OH and great idea Eddie.
http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/TZ-UK
+1
Maybe this could be a sticky and every now and again the choice of charities reviewed...?
The plan is to run this fundraiser until 31 March 2013 and then set up another one with 5 different charities.
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
my apologies... didn't realise there was a thread for it. seen the announcement at the top but you cannot reply there. anyway, i do feel that some members should donate given their very nice collections, it's not like £10 or £20 is going to break the bank... and the ones that have bragged that you can easily get 20% discount at an AD.... they are obviously talking from experience... so cough up. it is far less than the discount you got on your watch! even 20% on a £350 watch is £70 so you are £50 better off instead of £70.
but i did post in watch talk, as you can't tell your members to not be a tightwad! it is of course voluntary, but we will know who the tightwads are as your name is listed in the donations page. missing name.... tightwad. simple as that.
Done, thumbs up to EP
I'm not sure that the idea is to pressure people into donating just because others think they should.Anyway,as i understand it,you have an option whether or not to display your name on the donations page.
there is no pressure. just an awareness. but if you can afford an an a.lang sohne or a glashutte-original even a rolex or omega, then such a nominal amount isn't exactly going to hurt, is it? no pressure to donate, but the embarrassment of not having your name on the page is sufficient enough to tell everyone that however much you value your nice watch collection, you don't really give a toss about about people that have fallen victim to child abuse or people that are suffering cancer and the support that some of these charities give to the cancer families or rehoming children in caring families that wish to give a child the best start in life they could hope for.
no pressure. but awareness of what you can save on a discount and passing some of that on in good will, or realising you have an astonishlingly envious collection of watches and not giving a little to worth y causes....... yeah no pressure. i don't have a lot, but can still give to the less well off in society. i'm just not a selfish self-centered a-hole.
Thanks for guiding everyone else towards correct behaviour. So what would you say is a proper donation to make sure one is not to be considered a tightwad? £20 I suppose?
I think this is all a bit unnecessary, and a bit unseemly. cornish - there are more ways to donate than this method set up by Eddie, so there'll be no shaming here. (On a personal note, I don't think we need a '12 reg date poster telling the rest of the forums how this should work.)
This thread should be a happy place - feel free to send me a PM if you'd like to complain.
I find this offensive as my name will not be listed on the donations page, but it does not mean I have not donated. I donated £67 to one of the charities that Eddie chose (ABC Animal Sanctuary), just before this method of donation was set up. Please do NOT make assumptions.
Thanks
Foggy
If you want to give and are able to do so please do but in no way feel there is any pressure to do so.
Anonymous giving is just as welcome and something I have done in the past, along with many others (it's a bit Tom Jones - "not unusual"), and I may chose to do so again in the future.
Now, where's that stuff I was going to sell for the cause.
Gray
Are you going to analyse the donors' names and compare same to the TZ UK member list? You will not find my forum name on the list of donors - but I have donated - via Eddie's 'Virgin Giving' and also directly to one of the charities. Simple as that.
dunk
Last edited by sundial; 9th February 2013 at 09:23.
"Well they would say that ... wouldn't they!"
I don't agree with trying to shame people into donating, although I do wish that more people would. I especially think that those who make regular use of Sales Corner should consider donating a few quid ;-).
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
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