Charity Fundraiser

A few years ago, with one of my temping jobs I was a charity fundraiser. It paid well, offered flexible hours, comfortable working environment and there were some fantastic people working there. However, I left after only a couple of months, as it was often very disheartening on the job. My job, more accurately, was to be a telephone charity fundraiser - that is to try to raise money through calls. Lists of numbers are provided to us and we would have to ring up these contacts to explain our cause and to try to encourage some donation of funds! The type of donation is important for the company I worked for. We are asked not to ...  Read the complete review

When I was a young girl I used to watch Blue Peter and enjoyed helping with their annual appeals. One year they collected used postage stamps in order to buy inshore lifeboats for the RNLI. Each year they would do numerous reports about the charity which they were supporting and so that year I learnt a bit about the RNLI. Incidentally as a child I wondered how you could have an inshore boat - surely they all went out to sea didn't they? Now I know that the little inflatable boats are the inshore boats (ILB's) which stay close to the shore and rescue people from sandbanks or rocks etc. The bigger, more substantial boats are the all weather boats ...  Read the complete review

It was my first time away from home and I was young, naive and just started uni. I had had all the lectures about don't do drugs, drink in moderation (1 glass once a week should do it) amongst oher things but no-one warned me about the Raggies. Luckily for me the Raggies are members of Rag. It originally started as a group of students wishing to raise money on behalf of charities that they wanted to support but not being in the best financial position themselves tried to raise money through sponsorship of silly / scary stunts and donations. Hence the name of RAG origins (Raise and Give) however there are quite a few stories as to how the name came about none ...  Read the complete review

Jumble sales, raffles, sponsored walks…. fundraising. Yes, I have some memories of this. Once upon a time I was a member of the administrative committee for a local charity. Quite how I got roped into being in charge of fundraising still remains a bit of a mystery to me, but it happened, and I did the job for just over a year. How well I did it is probably open to question, but considering I didn’t have a clue when I started, I don’t think I did too badly. We raised more that year than during the two previous years together so I must’ve been doing something right. Once I’d recovered from the shock of being put in charge of ...  Read the complete review