# Fundraisers – dare you get your own kit off for a calendar? - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/12/01/fundraisers-dare-you-get-your-own-kit-calendar/ - Published: 2008-12-01T16:09:09+00:00 - Author: Ian MacQuillin Christmas. Chestnuts roasting by an open fire. Sound of Music on BBC 2. And otherwise sensible and conservative people all over the country getting their kit off for a charity fundraising calendar. Personally, I’ve got no issues at all with such calendars. I actually think they’re rather a good idea, and some time ago, I, or rather my diary columnist alter ego Raizer, suggested the fundraising sector should do its own nude calendar. But which charity should we do it for? There was no obvious candidate. Should fundraisers for a particular charity disrobe to raise money for their own charity or should a group of fundraisers representing the whole fundraising sector try to raise money for…well, for whom? ## Advertisement However, we now have a very obvious beneficiary charity – the Fundraisers Fund ( http://fundraisersfund.org/) the organisation set up by the Resource Alliance this year that allows fundraisers to support the career development of their colleagues in emerging markets. Or course, I don’t really expect this to go any further than a few jokey responses to this blog and a few people thinking I’ve gone perfectly barmy. And yet… I bet you could think of a few people in this sector you’d pay good money to see in the buff apart from a strategically placed collecting tin or chugger’s tabard. I know I can. So, for Christmas 2009, a) should we have a calendar of nude fundraisers raising money for the Fundraisers Fund? b) Who would you nominate to be in it? c) Would you have the nerve to take part? Serious questions, please post answers/suggestions below. * **[Discover Scholars – taking online education fundraising to a more personal level?](https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/12/05/discover-scholars-taking-online-education-fundraising-more-personal-level/)**( 5 December 2008) * **[iGoogle offers themes for charitable causes](https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/12/15/igoogle-offers-themes-charitable-causes/)**( 15 December 2008) * **[Will tough times mean more charity mergers?](https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/12/18/will-tough-times-mean-more-charity-mergers/)**( 18 December 2008) ## Comments ### By: Alan Clayton - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/12/01/fundraisers-dare-you-get-your-own-kit-calendar/#comment-3407 - Published: 2008-12-01T17:29:19+00:00 But with an added twist – people should actually be doing fundraising at the time… not just posing! Collecting, chugging, doing a sponsored event … etc … ### By: admin - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/12/01/fundraisers-dare-you-get-your-own-kit-calendar/#comment-3408 - Published: 2008-12-01T17:51:24+00:00 … especially if it is winter. Or indeed the major donor approach. And certainly not the stadium rock concert fundraising event. Now I know why I like digital fundraising so much, safe behind my desk. ### By: ianmacquillin - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/12/01/fundraisers-dare-you-get-your-own-kit-calendar/#comment-3409 - Published: 2008-12-01T17:52:23+00:00 …trust fundraisers. They would be naked at their desks. Mind you, who’s to say they aren’t most of the time. ### By: Sandre - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/12/01/fundraisers-dare-you-get-your-own-kit-calendar/#comment-3410 - Published: 2008-12-02T12:11:18+00:00 \> a) should we have a calendar of nude fundraisers raising money for the Fundraisers Fund? I see way too much of fundraisers as it is. \[/grumpy grantmaker\] On a serious note, c’mon guys, I’m sure you can be more original than jumping on the nekkid calendars bandwagon. You’re fundraisers. How about a Real Challenge – calendar of pics of the donor you brought in engaging with beneficiaries? Sandre ——- \*bored with nekkid calendars. Except firemen, that one never gets old\* ### By: admin - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/12/01/fundraisers-dare-you-get-your-own-kit-calendar/#comment-3411 - Published: 2008-12-02T12:16:09+00:00 Sandre has a point. We wouldn’t exactly be carving out a new frontier of fundraising by doing this. True, there are tried and trusted methods of fundraising, but how do we stand out in a crowded market? So I imagine that gets us off the hook. Phew. Maybe we should hand over the baton to the [Firemen’s Benevolent Fund](http://www.firefighterscharity.org.uk), if only for Sandre’s benefit. ### By: ianmacquillin - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/12/01/fundraisers-dare-you-get-your-own-kit-calendar/#comment-3412 - Published: 2008-12-02T16:05:55+00:00 Maybe not. But I bet people would buy it. Anyway, think of the PR value. Professional fundraisers finally posing in the buff after their volunteer counterparts had been doing it for 10 years or more. If not a calendar of naked fundraising gurus (because that’s what we were all thinking, wasn’t it?), what should we have next Christmas that would raise money for the Fundraisers Fund from other fundraisers? What should the Fundraisers Fund’s virtual gift catalogue include? ### By: Sandre - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/12/01/fundraisers-dare-you-get-your-own-kit-calendar/#comment-3413 - Published: 2008-12-02T16:22:08+00:00 Subscription to [http://www.giantlists.com/finding-people-dont-want-found.php](http://www.giantlists.com/finding-people-dont-want-found.php) Sandre ——- \*\<3 Google and not being mischievous at all, oh no\* ### By: Alastair Irons - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/12/01/fundraisers-dare-you-get-your-own-kit-calendar/#comment-3414 - Published: 2008-12-02T17:41:57+00:00 I’m always one for re-working an idea, stripping it across as many charities as possible (pun intended btw) and exploring it’s every plausible development until the generosity of the great giving public (or patience – see ‘chugging’) is exhausted… but the thought of some of our would-be leaders exposing so much as an ill-turned ankle, fair turns my (not inconsiderable) stomach. No, I’d pay real money to avoid it – rather the Empty Monty, than the Full. Alastair Irons Executive Creative Director, [http://www.twcat.co.uk](http://www.twcat.co.uk) Chairman of Trustees, [http://www.iprescue.org.uk](http://www.iprescue.org.uk) Director, [http://www.ourworldoursay.org](http://www.ourworldoursay.org) ### By: adriansalmon - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/12/01/fundraisers-dare-you-get-your-own-kit-calendar/#comment-3415 - Published: 2008-12-03T20:52:53+00:00 …although they’re not fundraisers, strictly speaking… Dame Suzi, to show clear public benefit and a triptych of Lindsay Boswell, Mick Aldridge and Jon Scourse (or his replacement at the FRSB) to prove that their orgs aren’t just ‘fig leaves’ for the profession! Adrian ### By: ianmacquillin - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/12/01/fundraisers-dare-you-get-your-own-kit-calendar/#comment-3416 - Published: 2008-12-04T09:52:53+00:00 I was at THINK’s annual Christmas client seminar last night and there was a fair degree of support for this idea. So much so, that I’ve even managed to begin a line- up of volunteers who have confirmed a serious interest, along with their chosen months. January – Tony Elischer, THINK Consulting Solutions February – Angela Couchman, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy March – Lawrie Gardner, Quarriers April – VACANT May – Ruth Ruderham, Christian Aid June – VACANT July – Sarah (my girlfriend. I say ‘confirmed’ but I guess I ought to tell her about it) August – Paul Farthing, CRUK September – VACANT October – VACANT, but see below November – Stephen George, NSPCC December – Gillian Egan, THINK Consulting Solutions. One female fundraising director is also considering it. THINK’s Simon Burne and Jason Potts were also well up for it but I’ve had to put them on the reserve list. And at least some of the Resource Alliance’s female staff are considering a group shot for October, the month of the International Fundraising Congress. So slots are running out fast. Better get your name down quick. Also, don’t forget to visit the Fundraisers Fund at [http://fundraisersfund.org](http://fundraisersfund.org) ### By: gordonmichie - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/12/01/fundraisers-dare-you-get-your-own-kit-calendar/#comment-3417 - Published: 2008-12-05T12:07:58+00:00 OK Ian Ill go for the summer in Kilts or not look put me down for my birthday month of June!!! ### By: ianmacquillin - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/12/01/fundraisers-dare-you-get-your-own-kit-calendar/#comment-3418 - Published: 2008-12-05T12:26:18+00:00 So we’d find out whether you really did have a tattoo of a Union Jack? ### By: ianmacquillin - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/12/01/fundraisers-dare-you-get-your-own-kit-calendar/#comment-3419 - Published: 2008-12-08T16:08:38+00:00 Please welcome to this project Jon Duschinsky and…drum roll…Tim Hunter, chair of the IFC board, NSPCC stalwart and now VIP at UNICEF. Yay! ### By: Kate Higgins - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/12/01/fundraisers-dare-you-get-your-own-kit-calendar/#comment-3420 - Published: 2008-12-13T23:17:08+00:00 Of course, if Alan Clayton’s suggestion is taken up of the naked ones actually doing real fundraising, someone would need to check that they were all following best practice and not breaching any Codes… I’d be happy to offer my services – nay see it as my duty – to monitor the activities of the naked males (although I draw the line at scrutinising Union Jack tattoos…) 2 suggestions to raise more money: auction off the final slots – 3 potentials for each so they start a bidding war against each other to keep themselves out and on subject of virtual fundraising – excellent idea – and the gifts could be the time and expertise of “Western” fundraisers working with counterparts in the developing world. People then buy/donate towards the virtual gifts that they think appropriate. ### By: Mike\_Bartlett - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/12/01/fundraisers-dare-you-get-your-own-kit-calendar/#comment-3421 - Published: 2008-12-15T11:28:11+00:00 Happy to be degraded for the sake of fundraising if required. Be good to have some regional representation, to complement some of the ‘big boys’ (I’m making calendar presumptions here). Most charities in the UK are small-medium efforts after all). Mike – Development Director, Julia’s House Children’s Hospice. MJBartlett