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I am a bit conflicted about this post: personally I can’t stand fund raising events, my view being that if you want to donate money to charity then you should do so and do so quietly and privately. I think this view comes from my Catholic upbringing, I remember being told, “the left hand should not know what the right hand giveth”, in other words don’t crow about what a good person you are, giving should be it’s own reward and other people knowing about it shouldn’t be your motive.
Unfortunately the economics of successful fund-raising seem to contradict this, the best way of raising money seems to be to create a big hoo-ha involving celebrities and give businesses a way of proving how community orientated they are by donating money and showing off about it. I suppose that’s the way human nature works; we copy our cultural figureheads.
Before I bore the pants off you with caveats, suffice to say I’m taking part in the London to Brighton bike ride this year (TBH I didn’t even realise it was for Charity) and it seems to be the done thing to raise money for the organising charity which is the British Heart Foundation. So I’ve set up a Justgiving page for donations so please donate if you want to.