
9 Feb 2008
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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Hi Marcus
I don't know if you know about Simon Milward but he was an amazing man who took off round the world on a hand-made motorcycle and raised over $110K, all of which he gave to charity. He started his own project in Indonesia called Motorcycle Outreach and after his tragic death in 2005 a group of us got together and set up a charity of the same name to continue his work. I was the one who dealt with the paperwork of setting this up and I can safely say that it is a total minefield and nightmare (not helped by the fact we needed to be a limited company as well). Set aside about 4 months of your time and a load of headache pills!
You would have to report with full accounts to the charity's commission once a year and they would expect a committee or board of some kind to oversee the charity work.
There is no reason why you cannot just raise and distribute money for good causes like Simon did without the nightmare of dealing with the CC. However, there will be many people who would not give money to someone without having the backup of a charity number etc.
I give money to charities and use http://www.justgiving.com/ as an intermediately. I am suprised that you think the charities are all US based as the ones I give regularly to are all UK based charities. You can search for a charity by category ie: 'motorcycle' or 'disability' etc and you can also set up a webpage on their site which you can link to from your site and raise money this way. My brother climbed Kilimanjaro last year and had a page on this site to raise money for Sightsavers - he raised over £1,500 in this way in just 3 months.
If you want any further info specifically relating to charity setup just ask.
Good luck with both your travels and money raising.
Kate
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