# Intelligent Giving want your "most painful sponsored events"

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/04/24/intelligent-giving-want-your-quotmost-painful-sponsored-eventsquot/
- Published: 2007-04-24T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Independent charity analysis service Intelligent Giving is asking fundraisers and
donors to share details of their most painful sponsored events.
Last month’s “daft
competition” (their words) asked for the most commonly mishead charity names – “
Make a Fish Foundation” won. This month it is most painful sponsored events they
want to hear about.

They have set the bar already: “you have to beat the story we spotted recently in
Metro”, they say. “Apparently, an old chap somewhere had his entire beard plucked
out whisker by whisker for a local good cause, raising £100 for his pains. Ouch!”

Actually, it doesn’t have to be a real event you submit – you’re allowed to dream
one up.

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Last month’s competition winner won a £25 Amazon voucher.

 * **[Norwich Union raises over £250,000 for the fight against muscle disease](https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/05/01/norwich-union-raises-over-250000-fight-against-muscle-disease/)**(
   1 May 2007)
 * **[Red Nose Day total now at £63 million](https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/05/08/red-nose-day-total-now-63-million/)**(
   8 May 2007)
 * **[Appeal fund set up for effort to find missing Madeleine McCann](https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/05/15/appeal-fund-set-effort-find-missing-madeleine-mccann/)**(
   15 May 2007)