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Fife GP Bob Grant - “Dr Bob” to his friends - recently completed an impressive 100 mile “Hop Across Scotland” to raise money for Maggie’s Centres. With the aid of his trusty crutches, Dr Bob walked from Bowling in Dumbartonshire to Kirkcaldy in Fife, visiting Maggie’s Centres in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Fife along the way…
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November 10, 2009 at 1:28 pm • Filed under Inspiration for fundraisers • Tagged
It’s probably a bit of an understatement to describe social media consultant Chris Thorpe as an “early adopter”. Chris recently returned from a four-day walking holiday in Austria during which he was raising money for the Child’s i Foundation, “lifestreaming” all the way. That is, Chris was using new technology - including an application he wrote himself - to update his donors with photos, tweets and his GPS location. You can view the results on Chris’s blog here.
Now, you might not have Chris’s technical expertise, but his story is still a great example of how you can use new technology like mobile phones with Internet connectivity to provide your donors with a more interactive fundraising process…
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November 9, 2009 at 4:39 pm • Filed under Inspiration for fundraisers • Tagged
With Remembrance Sunday this weekend, we wanted to highlight just one of the many events our fundraisers have organised in aid of Help for Heroes.
On Tuesday night, at Plymouth Albion’s Brickfields Recreation Ground, teams from the Royal Marines and the Peninsula Medical school faced off in the Medics Rugby Challenge. In the crowd of around 1,700 people were the team’s respective sponsors, Scott Quinnell (ex-Llanelli Scarlets and The Lions) and Will Greenwood (ex-Harlequins and The Lions), as well as local celebrities including Plymouth-born actress Emma Pierson…
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November 6, 2009 at 3:21 pm • Filed under Inspiration for fundraisers • Tagged
Here a quick competition for Bonfire Night. Send us a photo of your Guy - before you burn him please! - and the best one will win a £50 donation to the charity of your choice…
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November 4, 2009 at 12:16 pm • Filed under News from JG Towers • Tagged Charity
It’s been away a while, but the email tool in the JustGiving account is back.
So you can now go to your JustGiving account to send emails about your fundraising to all your friends.
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November 3, 2009 at 6:17 pm • Filed under News from JG Towers • Tagged email tool, send emails
