Fundraising

We’re starting to think about raising funds both for charity and as a way to get hold of the boat (which currently is way out of our financial reach).

Devizes Westminster is an excellent opportunity to get sponsorship and raise funds for charities and special causes, and even though you aren’t required to get sponsorship to take part, it seems only right that we do.

There are many good and great charities out there, and we have a few which we have thought about collecting for but we can’t quite decide. But I have discovered a widget on blogger which allows me to poll my vast and numerous readership. So consider yourselves polled. Even if you have stumbled here by mistake, click your chosen charity for me.

In fact, if you have a charity that is close to your heart that you would like us to consider, leave a comment in the comments section of this post and I will add it to the list.

I think we would need to make a decision who will be our named charity by early summer next year. So on the first of June 2009 whichever charity has the most votes on the poll (even if there have only been two or three votes overall) will be the one.

And then the other thing we might have to consider is getting corporate sponsorship to pay for the boat.

The boat we need is a two man kayak, preferably of marathon type, and preferably at the more stable end of the racing boat spectrum. Finding a boat that fits the bill on ebay is a very hit and miss thing. And although our feelers are out there looking to borrow a suitable boat, so far we haven’t had any luck. The third way is to buy the boat. I have spotted the one that I would love to demo, the Marsport Condor looks pretty much ideal for this race… Only at over £1200 for the cheepest, we are not in any kind of position to fund this ourselves. However Nigel suggested that we could petition local businesses to sponsor us on this front.

More thought needs to be put into this, but it might be a way to do this race.