Going commando on a challenge event
Howard Lake | 24 April 2009 | Blogs
The serious stuff about Alan Clayton’s session on events fundraising was in my previous post. This is the lighter stuff.
Speaking at the event we hosted, Al’s colleague Alex Brooks-Johnson, suggest a couple of new event ideas.
First was the ‘Real Three Peaks’ challenge, because Scotland has the three largest mountains in the UK so what currently passes for the three peaks challenges – taking in Snowdon and whatever that hill in the Pennines is called – is a bit of a poor substitute.
Alex’s pronunciation of the Gaelic was a bit ‘wrang’, but it did bring a giggle fae a room fu’ o’ Jocks.
But not as big a giggle that he got from his second idea – “The Commando Challenge”.
One female fundraiser – I won’t name her but you know who you are – suggested that such a 30-hour trek might be a “bit chaffing”.
It was quickly explained this referred to the route around the Great Glen that the commandos trained on during WW2.
About Howard Lake
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.