We've got two great things to announce! A big hand-over of money to the London Air Ambulance (LAA) which our members helped raise at the 2007 LB Christmas Party, and the formation of a new LB aspect, the Charity Council, a group charged with bringing great new charity fund-raising efforts to LB. For the hand-over, you're invited! We're holding it at next week's LB Borough Market Meet on the 27th. Come along!
LAA Charity Money Handover
As you should know, for the 2007 Christmas LB Party we held the brilliant Mystery Auction and members Ben & Terry did their own fund-raiser effort by dressing up as christmas characters on the night. These two events have raised a great amount, a whopping £2699.50. On top of this we also have charity money from previous efforts to hand-over, bringing the total we're proud to present to the LAA next week to a fantastic:
£3024.85!
Handover Evening - Come Along!
We'll be having the official hand-over of the money at next week's
Borough Market LB Meet. This is on the 27th. We invite everyone to come down and meet the LAA crew, who will be attending with their super-fast bike and car response vehicles. As we all helped raise this amount, we think it only right that you be a part of the hand-over and be there to get in the photos/video.
A huge thank-you goes to everyone who pledged to this total, you've allowed us to up our game and help out the brilliant folks at the LAA do their job. If you're not sure why the LAA is so vital to us, then go here.
Londonbikers Charity Council Formation
As LB grows from a two person operation to a twenty one person operation as it is now, it's clear we need more help to achieve the things we set out to do originally and to take on new projects. One area where we've had good intentions before but not had the resource or means to do properly is charity fund-raising. This is clearly something very close to peoples hearts and deserves to be done right.
To this end, we've formed a team that will be responsible for all future charity efforts LB and its members undertake. They will have complete autonomy and discretion when it comes to idea creation, planning, excution and administration. They will report only to the core LB team. Funds will be kept kept seperate from the LB accounts and payments will be handled through a third-party charity organisation called just-giving.com. This means complete transparency of the efforts and accounts will be available to all members through a new part of the website that will document all the efforts.
More than this, it means that we'll actually be able to take on new charity projects more often and get some proper money raised for our official charity, the London Air Ambulance, and also other charities as determined by the Charity Council.
The Charity Council is currently made up by an all-female motivated team from the community are used to asking hard questions, doing things properly and getting results:
- GsxrAng
- Shewoolf
- Sincere
- Tricksie
Past Efforts
We've held past charity fund-raising efforts for the LAA, and have not fully documented them on the site as best as we can. At the time this has been due to trying to manage what is essentially a full-time job in our space-time. As LB grows out of its amateur form roots and into the proffessional organisation it is now, it's the right thing for us to document those efforts here and explain what happened to them.
21.12.07
Christmas Party Auction + Ben & Terry Dress-Up
See above.
25.06.07
Breakthrough To Breast Cancer Handover
£640 from event
16.02.07
SMS LAA Donation Line
£22.35
02.12.06
Charity Calendar
£123
2006
T-Shirt Charity Donation
£200
05.03.06
Christmas Party + Infinity Motorcycles Raffle
£140 in party, £148.68 in raffle, £288.68 Total
Going forward from here, we can start to take our charity efforts to the next level and make a real difference as our mission statement to improve biking in London originally set out to do, in part by helping out the brilliant charities we pledge to as much as possible.
Related Galleries:
Borough Market Bike Meet Photo-Galleries
Related Links:
The Weekly LB Borough Market Meet
