Great Fundraising Organizations, by Alan Clayton. Book cover.

Sheepish fundraising event

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Howard Lake | 15 March 2000 | News

The Guardian today reports on a local fundraising event that went wrong but was rescued by some quick thinking. A guess-the-weight of a cake competition for charity in Bridgwater, Somerset, was rapidly renamed a guess-the-weight of a goat competition, after the animal ate the cake.

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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.

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