# Rain fails to dampen generosity

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/03/26/rain-fails-dampen-generosity/
- Published: 2006-03-26T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Heavy rain on Friday threatened to significantly reduce the income for the Irish
Cancer Society’s and Ireland’s main fundraising event, the Daffodil Day collection.
At one point the ICS anticipated a drop of ‚€500,000 in income but it seems people
reacted to the bad weather by increasing the minimum donation from ‚€2 to ‚€5.
Daffodil
Day depends heavily on direct on-street sales by up to 6,000 volunteers throughout
Ireland but due to the weather some called to say they could not stand out in the
torrential rain. ICS hopes to raise over ‚€3 million from the Daffodil Day, some
80% of which comes from street sales.

 

 

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The balance of the income comes from credit card donations and shop and workplace
sales. There is also an online facility for the event. In 2004, Daffodil Day raised
a record ‚€3.1 million.

 

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