Results tagged “charity” from Birmingham Post - Business Blog
Now when I was a lad it was the done thing when it came to fundraising to hawk your sponsorship form round the neighbours in the hope of getting them to commit to a measly 10p a length for the 20 lengths your school was forcing you to swim to support their local charity (for us King Edward's Aston Boys it was the Children's Hospital). Even then all you'd get was a commitment rather than cash. You'd have to do a second trip up and down the street with wet hair and a towel round your waist to prove you'd actually done it before any money was handed over.
My how things have changed. I've just had a rather intense week of trying to use social media to raise funds and by and large succeeding. Inevitably this story involves blogging and tweeting and people I don't know very well being incredibly generous....
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