ideas please

ok, some of you may or may not know that i am entered into this years Enduro Africa in October, rather than trying to beg money from the forum (although when i get really desperate that may change!) i need some sensible ideas to raise sponsership. i have so far put £900 of my own cash in plus £600 from my company. I am writing to about 20 sub - contracting companies to see if they will sponser me, as well as have some charity boxes in a friends cafe. we are doing a few dress down type events at work. on june 21st i am doing john o'groats to lands end in a day on my tiger 1050 as a fund raising event for enduro as well as macmillan and once i hit the £4999 required the balance will be given to macmillan. does anyone else have any ideas? - oh, and forget anything to do with heights!!!!!

cheers Sean
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It's not really worth selling things like DVDs & CDs on ebay - unless it's a job lot as you lose too much for such a small return.

I sold my guitar collection. I broke into my cash ISAs, all my money-for-a-mortgage, my company share options & all my savings.

I've been going to subway for the £2 sub of the day.

Even now I know that I'll be maxing out my credit card & I may sell the bike in russia then buy a new one in the USA to save on transport costs.

3 peaks challenge ?

Originally Posted by rubberduckofdeath

Parachute jump.

doesn't that class as something to do with heights?

How about a marathon of some sort? or does that involve too much effort with training and such? (if you need to train lol)

Originally Posted by rubberduckofdeath

People are more likely to sponsor you to do something you don't want to do.

FACT.

like eating creepy crawlies! ...

a paraglide would be cool.

Originally Posted by rubberduckofdeath

People are more likely to sponsor you to do something you don't want to do.

FACT.

I dont want to drink my own bodyweight in beer everyday for a month. does that count?

bloody hate heights though. marathon type thing would be an idea as i need to lose 4 stone before i go in october.

Funnily enough, I was on the original Enduro India (in 1999 I think) which was the inspiration for Simon (who runs Enduro Africa) quitting his job and embarking on this enterprise!

In raising the ?2.5K for that trip, I used a mix of methods:

• I paid the true trip costs myself (c. ?600 I think)
• Got a few hundred in sponsorship from family/colleagues/friends
• My company at the time wouldn't sponsor me, and I had little time to go round a load of companies to try and get cash. However if yours will that would help a lot!
• I found that it was much easier to get donations in kind, and managed to get all sorts of stuff to raffle. I also managed to get some freebies towards the trip, like an open face lid, free injections from the doctors (don't laugh they get expensive!), and put the money that I saved into my fund too.
• A big winner was holding a couple of parties for friends - make a big batch of curry, get some beers in and have a ?15 charity donation to come along. A few sterling mates also did the same on my behalf, and this was a real winner in terms of bringing money in.
• The charity had things like Christmas cards that you could sell, with - didn't raise heaps but it all adds up!
• Door to door, local press - I wouldn't bother as you get little return for the time you have to put in!
• You can also claim tax back on donations to charity, so this added a couple of hundred pounds

Hope you have a fab trip btw!!