Barnardo’s director to eat for £1 a day for a week to raise funds

Howard Lake | 27 August 2017 | News

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Roy Clark, Barnardo’s Director of Retail and Trading, is about raise funds for the charity by attempting to eat for a week on just £1 a day.

Together with his friend Steve Palmer, from Kettering, Clark hopes to raise £5,000 by spending just £7 on ingredients for breakfast, lunch and dinner to sustain him for seven days.

He said: “I’m getting really nervous about it now; I’ve been thinking about what I normally have to eat during the day and I think this is going to be tough.

“I’ll usually have a slice of toast in the morning and then a £3 meal deal for my lunch followed by a meal in the evening. So spending just £1 per day really does not seem very much at all.”

The only ‘free’ sustenance during the week will be water.

Mr Clark added: “This is going to be a difficult 7 days. We are going to have to do a lot of preparation so we can budget for the week and know what we are going to be cooking and eating each day.”

The pair have set up a fundraising page on JustGiving.

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.