Walking and Climbing

Mel...no harm to you..but you should have done a search on here before begging for money to do the 3 peaks...

Quite a few here would dispute the Challenge of a Lifetime tag

Quite a few hate the 3 peaks (as an event) for very good reason

A significant few would like to see it banned

and

TBH...if I was giving a £1 to a charity, last thing I would use is justgiving as they take 5% plus £15 a month of your hard won cash.

Sorry, but I'm with GrumpyOldMan on this.

Perhaps you would have got a better response on OM if you had asked people to sponsor you NOT to do the national 3 peaks

If you agree not to do it, and to dissuade everyone you were going to do it with too, I'd happily give you a pound...  Think up an alternative where the main challenge is more challenging than not nodding off at the wheel while you burn a significant value of fuel (which could go towards your charity instead) I'll give you another.

For example, a local mountaineering club did a "most Munros in 24 hours on foot" challenge.  More fun, more rewarding, much less driving (just what they'd have done in a weekend to get to the hills anyway) and less noise pollution and less erosion. Or maybe the Welsh 3000s, or significant mileage on the SW Coast footpath, or do what the Archers did a few years ago and bag significant high spots around Borsetshire or whatever is local to you.  It all gets money and it doesn't have all the negatives of the N3P.

Pete.

WTF are you anyway. 1 post and you want my money for a charridee I never heard of. Being pretty hopeful huh?

Others have beaten me to saying it but I'd be more likely to sponsor people not to tear-arse between Fort Bill, the Lakes and Snowdonia at all hours then crash about waking everyone up.

And, just as Beth says (above) it's a bit cheeky to register on a specialised forum simply as a chugger. 

I don't know how effective 'Cash For Kids' is (though I notice it is a brandname of Bauer Radio - Bauer is a multi-national media corporation) but I do know that other established nationally-known charities like Barnardos or Action for Children do good work and need funds too.

But why choose OM as the target for a kids charity appeal anyway? People on here, I suspect, would be more likely to give to a more appropriate good cause - for instance , I donate to organisations like MRTs, the RNLI, and the Firefighters Charity (formerly the Fire Service National Benevolent Fund).

By the way, Peter makes a good point about deducting the cost in fuel from the amount you raise - Fort William to Wasdale Head is roughly 260 miles and Wasdale Head to Llanberis Pass is about 210 miles plus however far you have to drive from home to Scotland.

Mel Lomas wrote (see)

I'm sure you have all used Justgiving before and know that is perfectly safe.

Your certainty is misplaced. I've never even heard of it.

... last thing I would use is justgiving as they take 5% plus £15 a month of your hard won cash.

Thanks GOM, that tells me all I need to know. 

Dont get me wrong - Justgiving have to make a profit as they are a commercial organisation. 

Just...for the sake of a requested £1, I'd much rather either throw it in a collecting tin, or...better still give it direct along with a giftaid declaration

Indeed. I doubt Mel was expecting Torquemada and the rest of the Inquisition.

There are gentler ways as Pete and Guy demonstrated.

Mrs. Nesbit wrote (see)

Indeed. I doubt Mel was expecting Torquemada and the rest of the Inquisition.

There are gentler ways as Pete and Guy demonstrated.

It is quite a sophisticated Good OMer, Bad OMer system that has evolved.

You'd almost think it was organised

Mrs. Nesbit wrote (see)

Indeed. I doubt Mel was expecting Torquemada and the rest of the Inquisition.

There are gentler ways as Pete and Guy demonstrated.

Lol, speaketh the master of the gentle approach...

Mrs. Nesbit wrote (see)

Your website is fucking rubbish on so many levels, PackMyKit.

I'm not surprised you were banned.