Are you raising money for Sport Relief this year? Please tell us how

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Are you and/or your children joining in with Sport Relief 2010?

Hula Hoops, one of the official Sport Relief partners, and organisers of the Hula Hoops Hoopathon, would like to know how you're getting involved. Are you planning on doing anything yourself? Are you inspiring other people to take part? Or are you sponsoring someone else?

So please come and share your ideas for raising the most dosh with us here. Whether it's hula hooping or hockey, gym or gymkhana, we want to know!

Sport Relief is Friday 19 March to Sunday 21 March this year and, as ever, all the money raised is spent by Comic Relief helping to transform lives in the UK and across the world's poorest countries.

Thanks v much,
Yours in training
MNHQ

We will join in with dd's 1&2's school sponsered walk like we do every year, dd's 3&4 usually do a sponsored toddle.

I'll be donating my time by working extra hours for free to take donation calls for this worthy cause

Hula Hoops

Hula Hoops

Fucking hell.
It gets more and more ridiculous.

We are doing a 5 mile work with the Cubs and Scouts.

this way

I've signed myself and DD (4.5) up for a SR Mile.

I want her to think about doing something for other people who aren't as lucky as she is, and for her also to be involved in a big national event.

"and for her also"

Sheesh.

NB. I am not Dutch, that was just very very poor sentence construction, for which I apologise.

I will not be supporting Sports Relief because I don't believe it distributes the money raises in a responsible fashion. Basically, from what I see, the cash is distributed to a wide network of charities, most of which are pretty obscure and ineffective. For instance, in my area funds would go to the Hammersmith & Fulham Community Law Centre, a woefully inept charity that allegedly works with sexually exploited and trafficked young people. That's a very emotive population group, but the charity doesn't publish annual reports and works in a nebulous and unaccountable way.

Rather than stonking cash into a huge distributive network like Comic Relief, which has far too organisations applying to do a proper due diligence, I prefer to select charities that I believe can do good and fund raise for them directly.

Sports Relief is an inefficient organisation easily exploited by money grubbing pseudo-charities. Please don't support them as they enable spiv charities to raise money and ramp up their marketing initiatives.

ds2 whos 3 is doing a walk round the playground at his sn school

I shall be eating Hula Hoops by the multipack whilst watching some sport.

I bought DD1 a Sports Relief water bottle yesterday (she needed one at the last minute) for a quid, only 50p of which goes to Sports Relief

I think Sainsbury's idea of rounding up your shopping bill is brilliant. And I have been doing this every week.

So far that's all I've done though

7y DD is running the Sport Releif mile locally. She has her Just Giving site to collect sponsorship from family and friends.

Had I known about the Hula Hoops hoopathon I think DD may have chosen to do that instead as she is a whizz with a hula hoop.

DD and I are doing the mile in Glasgow. She'll run, I'll wheeze along behind somewhere

I bought some socks for the family (we will all be sad matchies.

But am pondering Rejjestas post which you have all pointedly ignored.

Me and DD are doing our local SR mile, have raised money through our sponsorship webpage. Have also bought the socks

The children have done the sports relief mile today in school. I am quite proud of DS1 actually as he came 6th out of the whole school (about 85 pupils, age 4-11) and he is only in Year 2!

As well as sponsoring them for that I bought them some sport relief socks, and a few squares on one of those guess which personality is behind the scratch off panel posters that you get in the fundraising pack.

my ds raised £19.50 and swam 170 widths of his schools swimming pool!

We did the sports releif mile yesterday (DH, 2 DD's, 2 dogs and myself). Kids got about £40 worth of sponsorship and dd won so it was a good day.

Dd and dh have just set off for their mile in Sheffield. Am wandering to finish now. Lovely weather for it too.

My ds was judged the biggest Preston fan at church this morning so was very proud then he was asked to wear the Shirt of Hurt (the Danny Baker sport relief idea) which in our case is a Blackpool shirt. He wore it all through the service, much to his dismay, while 2 running shoes were passed round church and £100 donated.

we (me, dp and ds) all ran 3 miles- which was quite a challenge for me I can tell you- and we raised £107, am v pleased. The event was nice, a good atmosphere with lots of people (interestingly very few I knew, despite living in a small town)- the sun shone and the route was pleasant.

We ran the mile, the DDs have raised £95 so far. I got a medal

We all (me, Dh, 2 dds aged 10 and 5) ran this morning. They did a mile, I did three and we've raised about £77 so far. Want to get to £100 for the free DVD!

ds and I ran the SR earlier today raising £58 as we went wheezing away but we ran it