Illegal Xmas day

[Boomerangs]

I'm attending an Xmas Funday organised by a local baby group but I'm Starting to believe it's all a bit dodgy.
For months now the girl organising has been contacting local businesses asking for donations for the raffle. Places have been extremely generous. Restaurants, gyms, soft play have donated free passes, free meals etc.
Yesterday tesco donated around £100 of stuff including 4 digital ear thermometers. These have now been put on the baby group Fb page to be sold and for the proceeds to go back into the Funday. Aibu to think that is a bit much?
There is no charity aspect to any of this they are charging £3 for entrance 100 have already bought tickets, there are stalls people are holding selling stuff like homemade cards, these stall holders have had to pay to do this.
The event itself is in a working men's club there will be a bouncy castle and a few activities. It just seems like there is so much money being thrown at this it's not going to cost what she is making I think if she is making a profit she should say so and be upfront about it or state she is donating it to charity.
I have looked into this and i think it may be illegal plus she is advertising it on Facebook isn't there rules about raffle tickets etc? Would I be unreasonable to report to somebody!

[ILostItInTheEarlyNineties]

She auctioned her husband off? This woman clearly has no conscience.

[amazingamy09]

This all sounds a bit dodgy to me....the party and the auctioning off her partner haha

[ILostItInTheEarlyNineties]

Hang on, did you lose out in the bidding for George Clooney? That would explain your resentment

Perhaps you could raise your concerns with someone involved in organising the event? Tread carefully though, it could blow up in your face if it is above board.

[Boomerangs]

Yeah it was a side room with shaving foam and baby oil it was kind of a messy play with her husband. I didn't try to get involved in that one!
I just wanted a few other perspectives on the Funday thing as a few mums I speak to are all gobsmacked by the whole charade!

[SnotGoblin]

I once spent a few afternoons phoning major companies for donations towards a Christmas Party. I was sent hundreds of dollars worth of product mostly on the basis of a phone pitch. 'Hi, do you have a marketing department? My name is Snot, I'm phoning from Blah, we're having a do, can you give us some stuff'? Companies can be generous because it costs them relatively little and raises community profile. I doubt she's being overly evil or deceitful to obtain the 'prizes'.

[Pisssssedofff]

Boomerangs I just spat my tea out, why was the woman half undressed she wasn't going to erm get her money's worth was she 😳

[SnotGoblin]

You're right, that does sound unrelated .

[ItsAllGoingToBeFine]

Yeah it was a side room with shaving foam and baby oil it was kind of a messy play with her husband.

[Shock] That is bizarre She certainly has interesting fundraising techniques. Who did the money go to that time?

[Gazelda]

Crikey!
Who runs the Facebook group? Is it affiliated to any organisation?

[Boomerangs]

No it's just a random baby group. I once saw the woman selling off conkers to a family at a bus stop she had picked up on the local common she wanted £5 a piece seems like she is trying to make a fast buck easier now

[ILostItInTheEarlyNineties]

Her name's not Del Boy Trotter is it?

[Meadows76]

The money is going into the baby group, the people who have donated will know that. What's illegal?

[WellErrr]

she was auctioning off one to one time with her partner who is incredible good looking he looks like a young george cloony from the film from dusk till dawn. Anyway when one of the other mums got a bit too close with her partner she threw her out in front of everyone. The poor women was without half her clothes too 😩

Are you quite sure?

[GrinchyMcGrincherson]

I'm involved with a fair for my kids school. There are about a zillion rules. We have a license to be able to sell raffle tickets, items donated to the raffle are not allowed to be used for anything else, monies collected have to go to the place we state on the tickets (in our case school pta) and we have to state and follow certain rules for the draw (independent adjudicator etc) Someone asked if we could do something else with some prizes as we had more than needed and we were told no as the rules are super strict.

We also have public liability insurance, health and safety assessments and a license for our stalls to sell food outside of stall holders own licenses. We also have adaptations to the school insurance to cover money taken in.

That's just the stuff I know about because it's been discussed at meetings.

[GrinchyMcGrincherson]

I must admit I had zero clue how much is involved in this stuff. If you are worried I would flag the sales to Tesco TBH and let them deal.