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| A New Approach To Arranging A Charity Challenge When You Climb Kilimanjaro |
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Private Kilimanjaro |
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Time and again dedicated fundraisers complain of problems they have experienced setting up a charity climb on Kilimanjaro. These are the main things they have complained about.
• You have to pay a big up front deposit yourself – up to £500 before you can even register and if you are unable to climb for any reason you lose all this
• The total amount you are required to raise can be huge, often well over £4000pp when the cost of the climb and flight is no more than £2000
• If you don’t raise the full amount then you either lose the deposit and cannot do the climb or you have to make up all of the difference yourself
• You cannot decide for yourself how much of the cost you self fund-each charity challenge company has slightly different rules but the bottom line is you do not get to decide
• The total cost built into the “charity climb “that you end up paying is often way over the top, generally you find the cost is about £500 more than a fair price
• If you do not raise the full amount or are unable to climb for any reason, donations that have already been passed onto the charity by your friends cannot be returned- this has proven to be very embarrassing in a number of cases!
All of these problems become barriers to taking on the challenge and inevitably less charity events happen and less is raised for great causes. Not only that, but even if you get your charity challenge to climb Kilimanjaro up and running if you use justgiving they charge you 5% of everything you raise which again is a lot of money.
So what are the alternatives? If you use a good specialist Kilimanjaro operator rather than a so called Charity Challenge business you would be find that you can
• Book and get started fundraising with a deposit of only £200pp
• Get a much lower price overall for the climb so more goes to your charity
• Decide for yourself how much you want to self fund, from zero to 100%
And some operators will even refund your deposit on a charity climb if you are unable to do the trip.
And to avoid paying commission on the money you raise try this
o Set up an email address for your charity climb eg Jane’s_Kilimanjaro_climb@gmail.com
o Set up a paypal account with this email and get your friends and family to send donations to this account as gifts- paypal charge you nothing for this
When you have raised all the funds you can pay for the climb from the paypal account directly and send all the rest of the money direct to the charity. If you do not go ahead for any reason you simply refund the donations and that is that.
And that is it, an easy and effective way to organize your charity climb.
About Author
Private Kilimanjaro specialises in arranging private and group climbs up Mt Kilimanjaro and Kilimanjaro Charity Challenges. We also arrange Tanzanian treks up Mt Meru and in the Ngorongoro Highlands; safaris in all the Tanzanian National Parks and beach breaks to Zanzibar, Pemba and Mafia Islands.
http://www.privatekilimanjaro.com/ |
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