Britain’s Personal Best to run in October 2013
Howard Lake | 8 May 2013 | News
Britain’s Personal Best, a new annual mass-participation fundraising event, is to run for the first time in the first weekend of October 2013.
The Big Lottery Fund has granted £1 million to the Society Network Foundation, the charitable arm of The Big Society Network, to implement the campaign.
Britain’s Personal Best is designed to build on the excitement and energy generated by the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympic Games, and is open to everyone to participate in. People can fundraise, volunteer or aim to achieve personal bests in sport, education, business or artistic achievement.
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A web and mobile platform will enable individuals, charities, schools and other participants to create campaigns and challenges and encourage others to get involved.
The initiative is supported by Groundwork UK, the Institute of Fundraising, NAVCA, CSV, vInspired, The NHS Federation, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, ACEVO, 21st Century Legacy and ACOSVO.
Martyn Rose, Chairman of the Society Network Foundation, said:
“Britain’s Personal Best builds on the best of British civil society and our great traditions of public participation and mass engagement. There can be no one in the UK who was untouched or unmoved by the Olympics and Paralympics and the audacity and optimism that helped London and the UK create the greatest Olympics and Paralympics of all time has been a huge inspiration for us and we believe that Britain’s Personal Best will become a fitting and enduring Legacy to the summer of 2012.”
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.