Putting fun back into fundraising

As a caring-sharing industry, salons and suppliers are always letting us know about their latest fundraising antics. The novel ideas are as varied as the deserving causes -- including sponsored runs, wearing fancy dress and donations of profits. Treking in Iceland However, if you and your team are looking for something further afield, then check out Classic Tours, which has a packed of charity challenge events that can be tailored to individual company’s charity fundraising objectives and can also provide team building opportunities. Open charity challenges such as the London to Paris cycle ride (27 – 30 June 2008) provide the opportunity for a business to encourage its employees to fundraise for the company’s choice of charity on an event that takes them out of the office for only two days. It will present a mental and physical challenge individuals remember all their lives, cyling some 300km over the course of three days. A business can encourage a small group of employees to participate, or they can create specific teams for team building purposes – a great way to motivate staff, encourage outdoor activity and fitness among employees and to ensure the business more easily meets its fundraising and corporate social responsibility targets. A chance to see some fantastic scenary Managing Director of Classic Tours, Erich Reich says; “Special bespoke events can also be arranged specifically for companies, with almost any kind of charity challenge the imagination can run to – from camel riding in the desert to trekking the Great Wall of China – the world is definitely ‘your oyster’!”