Helping Dave to raise cash for charity

Posted on 01. Dec, 2009 by Craig Killick in Basingstoke, Lead Generation, Personal Development

Right. I won’t beat around the bush, I am on the scrounge.

Last year, I read in my local paper about a guy (who turned out to be a neighbour) who was rowing the distance of the circumference of the world (some 44,075 km) – a challenge that was taking him 3 years to complete. Not on the sea mind, on a land rowing machine in Basingstoke Town Centre – The Malls.

I love a good charity challenge so I contacted him to see how I could help and the initial result was World Record Row website.

Now, Dave relies on donations in his quest to raise £55,000 for Breakthrough Breast Cancer, mostly so far from the generous people of Basingstoke putting coins in his bucket. He is currently (as of today) on £10,765.00.

But, I’d like to do anything I can (bearing in mind I am too lazy to row for 6 hours a day) to help Dave raise his amount. We have about 12 months to raise the remaining £44,235 – that’s quite a tall task.

So here’s some ideas I’ve had:

• If you are a business and you want to donate, why not donate online and claim back as an expense? This means your £100 donation will really cost you £80 with a basic tax write-off, not to mention the tax efficiency relating to saved income tax and National Insurance.
• If you donate £50 or more, I’ll even add a link on the website to yours. Yes, I know it’s not worth £50, but this is a charity donation so this may help sweeten the deal. When you donate, be sure to contact me to tell me.
• Any donation amount is good – as a business or personal -  no matter how small.
• At the very least, you could just add a web banner on your website.

One quick last thing. Next year as the rowing challenge draws towards it’s conclusion, I plan to leverage as many business contacts as I have and do what I can.

And, although I am just one person (as is Dave), life and success is all about the things that one person can achieve. Sometimes these things may seem small but they have a huge impact, like a pebble in a pond rippling out.

Any ideas you have that may help to promote Dave and his challenge, any contacts you can leverage, why not contact me. We can become a barrage of pebbles in multiple ponds and help Dave raise a massive amount of money for Breakthrough Breast Cancer in this challenge of a lifetime.