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Wimmy
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Good morning all. I received an e-mail yesterday from a group attemptint to organise a drive for charity covering the John O Groats to Lands End.
Here's the e-mail:
Hi,
I'm hoping you can help me. My name is Vanda and I'm not here to tell you I have 47 million dollars in a foreign bank account I need your help with moving, or even try to sell you any body enhancing products!
I am a fellow member of a car club organising a trip from John O Groats to Lands End in August 2009. We are hoping to raise as much money as we can for the Terrence Higgins Trust and a major (yet to confirm) cancer charity, by bringing as many car cubs together as possible to do the run in under 24 hours. Piqued your interest?? Please read on…..
The idea we have created, we have named ‘CCs For Charity' (Car Clubs For Charity)
Our web site is up and running, but still undergoing changes:
www.ccs4charity.com – is online from there have a look in the forum, you will need to register to post on the board.
We fully intend to get as much coverage on this as possible, depending on the level of interest from the internet forums, we shall contact all car magazines, try to obtain corporate sponsorship from appropriate companies, and also ensure all car clubs who attend and names of people taking part are listed for publicity purposes, unless of course you wish to remain anonymous. You would also be able to collect personal sponsors in the form of your family and friends.
There will be a planned route, organised rest points, and more importantly we'd do it sensibly (sticking to the speed limit and taking regular breaks) THIS IS NOT A RACE - we'd be working in conjunction with the local police taking advice on risk assessment and gaining permission, it's not about who gets there first, it's about raising money and making sure we all arrive alive, the charities will not accept anyone who makes their name look bad and neither will we.
Close to Lands End we would have a final meeting point and endeavour to convoy in to Lands End all together, the main organisers car at the front.
Where from here?
Well, if your club is interested, ask if anyone will take responsibility for organising your club. We will do the overall organising but it will be easier if we are talking to one person from your club rather than everyone. Create a list of names who are interested and contact us through the web site. Your organiser would then be responsible for keeping you up to date with information from us. Each club will also have their own forum space on our web site.
If no one else but you in your club is interested, there is nothing to stop you contacting us yourselves and going it alone.
Why so far in advance?
Quite simply we need to be able to organise everything, we need to try and gain sponsorship, both personal and corporate, and also to make sure we can afford the fuel and hotel accommodation for the journey - I need not tell you this will cost a lot on fuel. To prepare well, we need time, if we're going to make this work we need people on board and in for the long run.
Thanks for reading this, I know it's lengthy but we really appreciate you taking time to consider it. If you're happy with our suggestion then please post this information on our behalf on your web site. Simply by contacting you we have already added your name to our list of contacted clubs on our site. Please help us out to raise as much money as we can for 2 good causes.
Many thanks,
Vanda
Please submit your interest here and not on their forum. That way either myself or one of my trusty organisers can keep a close eye on things and keep everything organsed, Intereseted partied please submit your interest below.
Interested:
Wimmy
Tez (TezMc)
MadGT (rmbravo1.8)
Kris (kr04_2004)
Jayfish
Carroll
Here's the e-mail:
Hi,
I'm hoping you can help me. My name is Vanda and I'm not here to tell you I have 47 million dollars in a foreign bank account I need your help with moving, or even try to sell you any body enhancing products!
I am a fellow member of a car club organising a trip from John O Groats to Lands End in August 2009. We are hoping to raise as much money as we can for the Terrence Higgins Trust and a major (yet to confirm) cancer charity, by bringing as many car cubs together as possible to do the run in under 24 hours. Piqued your interest?? Please read on…..
The idea we have created, we have named ‘CCs For Charity' (Car Clubs For Charity)
Our web site is up and running, but still undergoing changes:
www.ccs4charity.com – is online from there have a look in the forum, you will need to register to post on the board.
We fully intend to get as much coverage on this as possible, depending on the level of interest from the internet forums, we shall contact all car magazines, try to obtain corporate sponsorship from appropriate companies, and also ensure all car clubs who attend and names of people taking part are listed for publicity purposes, unless of course you wish to remain anonymous. You would also be able to collect personal sponsors in the form of your family and friends.
There will be a planned route, organised rest points, and more importantly we'd do it sensibly (sticking to the speed limit and taking regular breaks) THIS IS NOT A RACE - we'd be working in conjunction with the local police taking advice on risk assessment and gaining permission, it's not about who gets there first, it's about raising money and making sure we all arrive alive, the charities will not accept anyone who makes their name look bad and neither will we.
Close to Lands End we would have a final meeting point and endeavour to convoy in to Lands End all together, the main organisers car at the front.
Where from here?
Well, if your club is interested, ask if anyone will take responsibility for organising your club. We will do the overall organising but it will be easier if we are talking to one person from your club rather than everyone. Create a list of names who are interested and contact us through the web site. Your organiser would then be responsible for keeping you up to date with information from us. Each club will also have their own forum space on our web site.
If no one else but you in your club is interested, there is nothing to stop you contacting us yourselves and going it alone.
Why so far in advance?
Quite simply we need to be able to organise everything, we need to try and gain sponsorship, both personal and corporate, and also to make sure we can afford the fuel and hotel accommodation for the journey - I need not tell you this will cost a lot on fuel. To prepare well, we need time, if we're going to make this work we need people on board and in for the long run.
Thanks for reading this, I know it's lengthy but we really appreciate you taking time to consider it. If you're happy with our suggestion then please post this information on our behalf on your web site. Simply by contacting you we have already added your name to our list of contacted clubs on our site. Please help us out to raise as much money as we can for 2 good causes.
Many thanks,
Vanda
Please submit your interest here and not on their forum. That way either myself or one of my trusty organisers can keep a close eye on things and keep everything organsed, Intereseted partied please submit your interest below.
Interested:
Wimmy
Tez (TezMc)
MadGT (rmbravo1.8)
Kris (kr04_2004)
Jayfish
Carroll