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Originally Posted by mattcbf600
I'm nothing to do with Long Way Round UK, but I am doing Journey To Russia in September with 2 of my mates - we're raising money for Everyman.
We thought long and hard about the charity thing. We were going to Russia, we were doing it anyway, in fact most of the planning was done and we started telling people we were off on our trip - at which point some people asked us - 'great... who you doing it for?'
Well no-one was our initial reply, and then we thought, well if people really want to use us as an excuse to give to charity we should make it easy for them - so we set up the justgiving page ( Justgiving - Journey To Russia - as you asked so nicely) and as you can see we've had some donations - not a huge amount but more than would have gone in to Everyman if we'd not.
We could of course just turn around and go - 'well let's not go on the trip let's just donate our budget to Everyman'. Or we could say 'we're off to Russia, if you want to use us as an excuse to give to charity, great, go over here.'
I know which one I'd go for!
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You have touched a chord here with me Matt.
One guy I know was "over the moon" when I put some money into his justgiving pot - apparently about 2-3 times more than he expected.
Another guy I know has never spoken to me or emailed me since I did not respond to his very obvious email asking for a contribution to his justgiving pot and his jaunt around in the desert - hard work no doubt, but.........
The moral I have learnt is that you find out who your friends are when you get involved with justgiving!!
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Dave
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