AIBU to not enter the 'run a mile' for sport relief because

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the entrance fee of £6-adults, £3 for children goes towards the staging of the event and not the charity? I was looking forward to getting DS(10) involved as he is currently into running!

YANBU.

Who do you think should pay the costs of staging the event, then?

There are costs in staging any event. How else are they going to pay for this?

Of course you're being unreasonable.

YANBU just give a pound to Sport Relief - and run a mile if you want. 6quid is a very high charge for the event, unless there are very few competitors, there's no way it should cost that much.

Consider Park Run - lots of them, run every week, completely free, yet there's results etc. They've had a small amount of sponsorship of course to buy equipment now, but previously it was purely by donated time. For Sports Relief I'd expect the same, the organisers and location are donated, and there are few other costs.

How do you think they can stage the event?

These things cost a fortune to stage but they do indeed raise much much more

So YABU

£9 will include a little souvenir for you both, and maybe a free drink.
Don't do it if you can't afford, but I don't think the entry fees are unreasonable.

WorraLiberty No they don't almost 150,000 people have done a Park Run and never paid anything to do it. The very limited costs required to run the event is covered by a few sponsors now - and most of those costs are in the free t-shirts that get given away, and now a few bits of equipment to make the volunteers jobs easier (although there were plenty run before that equipment was used, you don't need it.)

I don't mind paying the entrance fee but I want the money to go to the charity. Sainsburys is one of the sponsers of the event and I had assummed that they would pay for the minimal cost of holding the events. We have a local run held annually - all the money goes to charity. They use a public park - volunteers are used as stewards to mark out course, show people where to go etc. No medals, no drinks - but a big thank you from the organisers, and you always leave with a good feeling inside! I feel that somebody is profitting out of the event - and it isn't the charity!!!!

I don't think the cost if these things is as minimal as people think they are. The insurance cost alone will be huge, they might have to pay for first aid cover too.

If your ds wants to do it and you think it would be good for him, then you are getting something in return for your entrance fee anyway.

They do indeed say on their website that the £6 goes towards covering the costs, and not to the charity.

So what happens after all costs have been covered? Where does the rest go?

IUseTooMuchKitchenRoll Race licence which includes insurance for events is 35p UKA with UK Athletics So no, it won't be huge.

Fair enough, I don't know enough about these things to argue it! Are you sure that's not personal insurance though, that wouldn't include public liability for the event or the volunteers?

I depends who's entering. Many companies pay for their staff to enter and then match £ for £ sponsor money raised by their employees.
All part of PR, looks good on their community profile.

For the individual, It's always hard to work out where each £ raised by a charity goes (either through entry fees or sponsorship).
The way I look at it is that my £ go into a big pot, some is spent on Admin/ charity staff wages, some on marketing and some on the charity cause.

Same thing is happening for this run so YABU.

Costs include insurance, first aid cover, thought you had to pay the council e.g. for road closures, signage, etc, sometimes police/steward cover as well. A race in a park is obviously different - although I know with our local council you still have to pay the council if you do something official in a park as well. I know because we did a sponsorted walk in a local park and were advised by a council official not to make it "official" otherwise we ould be charged.

The main question for me though would be is the charity organising it themselves, or paying a private firm to organise it. If the latter the bulk of the cost will be paying the private firm.

Is it true you have to pay for the socks this year? I've done it twice before and also got them as a memento for taking part

Yes if you need road closures etc. it becomes more expensive, but it's a mile, and I can't imagine many places in the country where a mile run would require road closures (which would cost 300 quid to apply + and maybe some other minimal costs) Generally though it would be run in a park or similar and most councils will provide small charitable events for free (they don't like the publicity of not). The insurance is as above, 35p a person if you do it under UKA's umbrella and get enough people. For the numbers doing the sport relief mile I'm sure you could get it cheaper (as the risks are actually lower than the average for UKA, few people will have a problem on a mile)

First aid cover, if you can't get it donated, is not too expensive, yes it costs a bit, but the event has big name sponsors, it should not be costing that much. Getting numbers printed actually costs more then the insurance generally - but why would you do that, surely the idea is to raise money?