What event would help persuade you donate to charity

[Fundraiser24]

Just that really. Aside from empathy for cause.

i want to raise as much as possible for a close friends cause. Would would make you think WOW this challenge is worth donating for. Or totally subjective on the person’s usual ability ie non runner undertakes marathon. Total respect for anyone that dedicates time and effort to undertake any challenge btw.

thanks

Honestly it is a combination of how well I know the fundraiser, how much I think of them and how much the particular good cause means to me. The actual nature of the event is fairly irrelevant. I tend to assume it will be something that will challenge them.

Very much appreciate your views

Nothing at all.

Honestly, I'd rather just give to the cause (if I wanted to) than pay someone to go running/cycling/mountain climbing or whatever.

To be honest, nothing really. I have a couple of direct debits set up for monthly donations to charities that matter to me. If I heard about a cause that I really felt was worth it, I may well donate, but the activity being done wouldn't influence that.

Plus, lets just say it's a 10 mile run and the person has to stop at 9.5 miles, due to exhaustion.

Who's going to ask for their money back?

No-one because the event really isn't that important.

Again, nothing really, if I feel the cause speaks to me I’ll donate, otherwise I won’t.
i tend to appreciate a stealth fundraiser much more. Offer something I would pay for anyway- ceilidh and bbq, beer festival etc, and add in a pledge auction or raffle.

Can you do something transactional like an auction or raffle if you dedicate your time to getting some amazing or just loads of prizes?

Like previous posters I'm not really fussed about donating to personal challenges, especially when it isn't clear if my donation is part going to fund a person to do it, e.g.: skydive.

What I think is good is offering to do a service people would pay for, and donating your fee. Art, DIY, decorating, cleaning, garden work, car washing, etc.

All so helpful. So either making clear challenge has been self funded and not using donations to pay for or go for a big charity event with auctions etc

I'd want to know exactly why the person is raising money and what's happened. Then I would feel sympathy/empathy and donate. And what the money could achieve.

I would not be interested in a non runner running a marathon, or even a runner. Either way it smacks of being about that person.

Lots of charity things I've seen are not about the charity at all. More about either wanting an adventure/challenge or being forced to fundraise.

things that bring people together, like a bake sale (village bake-off) or pot-luck dinner in a church hall or charity jumble sale in someone's garden or similar.

I don't bother with sponsoring people to do some challenge like running / climbing / skydiving whatever. that always seems to benefit mainly the person doing the challenge and the big company organizing it.

I think even if you cover your own costs for an expensive activity, I would be reluctant.

If you want to support the charity, give the money you spent on the activity to the charity directly - it would probably be more than any sponsorship you raise.

If you want to do the activity, do the activity without it being connected to charity.

I agree, the fundraising activity is the least important bit. It’s who’s raising the money, why, and / or what the cause is.

The certain knowledge that every penny donated goes to the cause.....not to some CEO. A relative used to work for a charity, not sure of job title, but the person who is responsible for raising the donations from companies and events i think rather than individuals. I was disgusted when told he got a £20k xmas bonus for the amount he had raised! This was many years ago and has put me off donating since, unless the money is all going directly to the person/cause I am not giving to make an already rich person richer!

I might give like you say if it was a charity I support or someone I was close too.

some big adventure no .

the last two things I gave to were a MacMillan raffle at work - a friend doing a cancer race for life

The Red cross, persecuted christians, Refuge - the really very serious causes
I know I cannot save everyone's life or mend each people's problems

I have just given money away to widowed ladies I know. It is usually a heart decision, not someone logically presenting me their cause

oh yes,not including the many open gardens events, and such fun fundraisers. Then you have something you enjoyed and people gathered money also

the amount of charity concerts etc - these I do not count

I only give to fund-raising events if my DCs/DGCs or someone I know is involved.

The nature of the event and the cause is irrelevant. It's whether I know the participants or not.

I wouldn't donate to anyone's personal charity challenge unless it was a family member or someone else that I particularly felt the need to personally support.

I dislike and feel pressured by all these gimmicky fundraisers. I'm much more likely to donate to something simply on the basis of learning about a cause (eg via a news story).

I’ll get flamed for this and I should caveat it by saying I do regularly donate to charity, but I really hate it when people court sponsorship for things that are neither here nor there. DN asked us to sponsor him for a press-up challenge that was 300 press ups over the course of a month (ie.10 a day. He’s a young, fit healthy lad who works as a builder). I’ve had similar ones for walking 30 miles in a month. Also, Dry January/Sober October. And don’t get me started on Movember!

I wouldn’t feel like I was being ripped off if someone just asked for money on the basis of collecting for a particular charity. I also don’t mind if someone is actually doing something difficult or strenuous, but doing some half-arsed ‘challenge’ that isn’t a challenge at all feels like a piss take.

Much like the PP, I don't really like the personal challenge type charity fundraisers. I like the charity cake sales at work, or Charity Open days in the community (Fire Station/lifeboat station). Things that are low cost for everyone but bring communities together.

Someone I know doing a self-funded challenge that's going to require a degree of commitment from them could persuade me to donate to a charity I wouldn't otherwise have thought of. I've sponsored people to run 5k before now if I thought it was a big thing for that person, and I've raised quite a lot in sponsorship myself for doing events that are generally considered difficult and that were out of my comfort zone at the time I did them (marathons, ultramarathons, long cyclosportives) helped by engaging with the people sponsoring me and recording the ups and downs of my training online.

There are some charities I wouldn't open my wallet for even if you undertook to swim to the moon and wrote an entertaining blog about the journey. And as others have said, if you ask for sponsorship to walk the Great Wall of China or to do a parachute jump I'm going to interrogate you about how much of your sponsors' money is actually going to pay for you to have the sort of exotic holiday or adrenaline experience that most of us can't afford.

Always dubious of how much goes to charity when it’s abroad etc

A cake sale works for me. No sponsorship, gimmicks, or justgiving account required.

I have a selection of monthly direct debits to charities I care about, and would rather stick to those than the silly months and numerous gofundme that spring up for (sometimes) the silliest of things.

Sponsored things don't encourage me to give at all. I might take part in a charity auction if there was an item that appealed to me (say, original pice of artwork, craft, photography that I couldn't just go out and buy).

I go on personal experience (mine and those around me) now. I give to Shelter. Used to give to the Samaritans but wouldn’t again.