The "Forum-Wide Charity Idea" thread

[Ivo]

I wanted to publicise this a bit better, seen as it's been mixed in with various other issues and effectively forgotten about (even though I have had even Mojo tell me that he likes the idea, albeit in person and not online). It comes from the Railforums server thread. I have copied the post exactly from that thread.

Well, I have a little idea for something we could do on a semi-regular (monthly?) basis. Each month, everyone who is interested in this plan puts in £1.

Essentially, everyone pitches an idea for a railway-related theme day that they would like to do, and the most popular idea each month receives the "kitty" as a donation from the forum towards the idea - on the condition that they provide a forum report and plenty of photographs of the day/event! Examples may be...

• Peter Mugridge's run from Lands End to John o'Groats and back, exclusively by public transport
• EM2's 24 hours by train, in which he accumulated over 1,300 miles at an average of roughly 55 mph
• A challenge to take a picture of all 18 Network Rail stations within 24 hours of each other
• Using every notable "local" rail system in the country, again in 24 hours (i.e. LUL, T&W, Blackpool, etc)
• Staying on the same train from its first service on any given day to its last on the same day (or early the next morning)
• A big forum meet in Birmingham in which we take over from platform staff for the day (OK, maybe not)

And so on. The list is potentially endless. It's just an idea, but it would mean that we are giving something back to the forum (i.e. any left over money goes to the forum's administration), while also enjoying our hobby.

What do you all think? I know it's another of my crazy plans (I must have had 50 by now ), but opinions would be welcomed! Of course, only one idea would be given the go-ahead each month, so the incentive is there to keep giving in the hope of getting your chance one day! And if you think a monthly giving is too rare, then it could become more frequent. Of course, £1 a month is £12 a year, so I think monthly would be a sensible rate...

N.B.: Any leftover funds go towards forum administration, and extras on the day (like sausage rolls if your forum ID is Ivo ) have to be funded yourself.

Anyway, an extra element of this could be that the event itself then becomes sponsored, and that all money raised through sponsoring goes to charity. If we gave to The Railway Children charity every time, we could even invite some of their "executive volunteers" (my choice of term; I didn't know what to call them) along?

As from now, all posts related to this in this thread please; a link has been provided in the other thread as well.

Thank you

 

[Blindtraveler]

I wanted to publicise this a bit better, seen as it's been mixed in with various other issues and effectively forgotten about (even though I have had even Mojo tell me that he likes the idea, albeit in person and not online). It comes from the Railforums server thread. I have copied the post exactly from that thread.



N.B.: Any leftover funds go towards forum administration, and extras on the day (like sausage rolls if your forum ID is Ivo ) have to be funded yourself.

Anyway, an extra element of this could be that the event itself then becomes sponsored, and that all money raised through sponsoring goes to charity. If we gave to The Railway Children charity every time, we could even invite some of their "executive volunteers" (my choice of term; I didn't know what to call them) along?

As from now, all posts related to this in this thread please; a link has been provided in the other thread as well.

Thank you

for those who may or may not have read other thread, ivo's many ideas branched out to take into account my own personal challenge, being registered blind. He suggested maybe an idea of realing off as many details Re a particular train entirely by what I can here. Discuss foalks, i'm game.

Another idea I had was to attempt to travel from glasgow to london entirely by local or regional trainservices and busses, metros etc for positioning moves only.. No express coaches or intercity opperators including xc, hull trains or gc would be aloud, niether would chilton from Birmingham and TPE from scotland and only local EMT services would be aloud. Taxis could be used if a town or city needded to be negociated at speed e.g to get from a bus station, park and ride or similar to a railway station. doable?
So far i've got:
glasgow - carlisle via kilmarnock and dumfries, (scotrail), carlisle - leeds, (northern) and as its only just occurred to me, thats as far as iv got! timing wise, your half way through the day assuming you left glc on the earliest service.






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well that idea was clearly a success, its stil displayed below, read and discuss. Ivo started this and i'm certainly behind him, a great chance to raise some charritty cash and have fun at the same time. All ideas welcome.

By the way, is there a speciffic charitty which supports victims plus the friends and loved ones of rail related accidents? The 2 recent fatalitties on the ecml and the day to day minor accidents which no doubt happen every so often has had me thinking.

for those who may or may not have read other thread, ivo's many ideas branched out to take into account my own personal challenge, being registered blind. He suggested maybe an idea of realing off as many details Re a particular train entirely by what I can here. Discuss foalks, i'm game.

Another idea I had was to attempt to travel from glasgow to london entirely by local or regional trainservices and busses, metros etc for positioning moves only.. No express coaches or intercity opperators including xc, hull trains or gc would be aloud, niether would chilton from Birmingham and TPE from scotland and only local EMT services would be aloud. Taxis could be used if a town or city needded to be negociated at speed e.g to get from a bus station, park and ride or similar to a railway station. doable?
So far i've got:
glasgow - carlisle via kilmarnock and dumfries, (scotrail), carlisle - leeds, (northern) and as its only just occurred to me, thats as far as iv got! timing wise, your half way through the day assuming you left glc on the earliest service.