# Skyline launches new challenge event listings website

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/07/06/skyline-launches-new-challenge-event-listings-website/
- Published: 2006-07-06T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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Fundraising challenge events organiser Skyline is luanching a new website that will
allow charity challenge participants to pick and choose from all available charity
events.
The website, doitforcharity.com, will be launched next week at the Institute
of Fundraising’s annual convention. It will list free-of-charge all charity challenge
events, not just those run by Skyline.

This will be the first attempt at a comprehensive online events listing in the sector.
It will enable would-be participants to choose between charity events, rather than
simply responding to requests direct from charities.

Siobhan Dillon, managing director of Skyline, said: “doitforcharity.com will offer
this ‘event-first’ type of supporter real consumer choice in finding events that
suit them.

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“In the past they have really just had to sit back and wait for a charity to come
to them. But with doitforcharity.com they will be able to choose their event in 
the same way they would book a holiday or hotel online.

The site contains separate categories for abseiling, whitewater rafting, skydiving,
walks, functions and parachute jumps in the UK; and trekking and cycle rides overseas.
It also offers advice on fitness and equipment.

She believes the site will prove particularly valuable to smaller charities who 
don’t have the in-house capability to promote such events extensively. “Those charities
without established event fundraising teams can use doitforcharity.com as a proxy
events fundraising operation by listing their events and waiting for supporters 
to come to them,” she suggested.

The website also offers advice on staging fundraising events, including curry nights,
dress down days, auctions and raffles, and offers detailed legal advice on fundraising,
including an explanation of Gift Aid.

Skyline have plans to expand doitforcharity.com to encompass other areas of fundraising,
including gifts and merchandise. Indeed, Dillon believes the site could expand even
further “to cover all aspects of charity activity, including campaigning and activism
opportunities”.

The website will be demonstrated at the Institute of Fundraising National Convention,
at the Hilton London Metropole 10-12 July, before it goes live to the general public
later in July.

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