£150

I have now had the £150 refund from Crowdfunder for the money I donated to The Fans Of The Future campaign which has now collapsed.

I donated this money from the proceeds of a recent Fishy Buster, so I now have £150 in my bank account which I need to allocate.

I was thinking of adding it to the next Fishy Buster total but there will not be enough time for another game this season after the current one has finished so that will mean me hanging onto the money until next season.

The other thing I thought I would do was just give the £150 away at random. The way I would do this is to randomly choose a number between 1 and 1000 (which I would also let Grimrob know, so that there can be no accusations of a fix) obviously Rob wouldn't be allowed to enter and at the deadline give the money away to whoever got the correct number (or nearest to). I realise some posters probably have more than one login name and I don't want people making new login details just to enter, so I will restrict the entry to 1 per login detail who have over 100 posts to their name.

Alternatively I could do something totally different with this money if anyone has any better suggestions.

Over to you.

Maybe give it to the Matt Tees Just Giving Fund ???

I like the idea of a fishy member winning

I think giving it to a good cause as it was already intended to give it away, so just choose another good cause. 😎
UTMM

Cancer Research

As we can't give it to the fans of the future, how about the players of the future.  Youth team ??

Quoted from pkscouse

Maybe give it to the Matt Tees Just Giving Fund ???

This. Very worthy cause.

Fifteen pounds each to ten worthwhile charities of your choice would be my suggestion

Les , there is a headline story in the telwag today about a couple of friends who are struggling with funeral arrangement payments, as their friend had died and they ran into red tape as they didn't know what to do for the best.
This for me would make a great donation?
UTM

Everyone has a charity of choice. For what it's worth, I think it should be club related.

Donate to a charity imo- either Cancer related or the Brain Tumour one you raise for Les. Initial fund was there to help others - not to win.

Charity but should be something local or club related

GTFC youth set up

GTFC Handicapped Supporters Club?

Club related good cause or buy a share in the club.

Handicapped supporters club.

A lot of good suggestions on here. I will split the money as suggested but 3 ways as I think maybe 10 would make the donation quite small, although I appreciate that every penny counts.

What I plan to do is split the money 3 ways (ie £50 each) to The Matt Tees Just Givng Fund, GTFC Youth set up and also The British Deaf Association, as I know that this is a cause very close to Ollie's heart.

Will that be okay for everyone if I do that?

That’s fine Les

Yep, nice one.

That's 3 good choices Les  

Quoted from jock dock tower

GTFC Handicapped Supporters Club?

My thoughts as well.

Quoted from Les Brechin

A lot of good suggestions on here. I will split the money as suggested but 3 ways as I think maybe 10 would make the donation quite small, although I appreciate that every penny counts.

What I plan to do is split the money 3 ways (ie £50 each) to The Matt Tees Just Givng Fund, GTFC Youth set up and also The British Deaf Association, as I know that this is a cause very close to Ollie's heart.

Will that be okay for everyone if I do that?

The green ticks gives you your answer Les.

Put the £150 on Seaside Boy at 100-1 at Newmarket.  Then we could have more money to allocate.  This thread could get longer.

Ok I made all that up.

Les, I think that your 3 choices are exactly right.  Donations would be diluted if less than £50 individually.  

Good with me Les.  
UTMM

I have been down to the ground this luchtime and donated the £50 to the Youth set up and I have donated the £50 online to the British Deaf Association.

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Thank you for your donation to the British Deaf Association, your support is greatly appreciated and makes a real difference to the help that we can offer to Deaf people and communities across the UK.
If you would like to receive regular updates by email of the most recent BSL videos from the BDA website, providing practical information and important news updates for Deaf people, please sign up here
Best wishes from the BDA Team
Payment Complete: Thank you for your donation.
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Quoted from Les Brechin

I have now had the £150 refund from Crowdfunder for the money I donated to The Fans Of The Future campaign which has now collapsed.

I donated this money from the proceeds of a recent Fishy Buster, so I now have £150 in my bank account which I need to allocate.

I was thinking of adding it to the next Fishy Buster total but there will not be enough time for another game this season after the current one has finished so that will mean me hanging onto the money until next season.

The other thing I thought I would do was just give the £150 away at random. The way I would do this is to randomly choose a number between 1 and 1000 (which I would also let Grimrob know, so that there can be no accusations of a fix) obviously Rob wouldn't be allowed to enter and at the deadline give the money away to whoever got the correct number (or nearest to). I realise some posters probably have more than one login name and I don't want people making new login details just to enter, so I will restrict the entry to 1 per login detail who have over 100 posts to their name.

Alternatively I could do something totally different with this money if anyone has any better suggestions.

Over to you.

Give it to charity Les

Your own Brain Tumour charity would be a good cause imho

I'm about to start on a sponsored swim again for Diabetes UK too if you fancy donating to that too?

Last year I had hundreds of views on here ( where I'd linked my JustGiving site ) but only a handful of people chose to donate.... one pound for every view would have boosted the amount I earned but maybe people see it as one of those things other people get ( though to be true, every ailment and illness can be viewed like that by the majority )

Should have read the whole thread...  

Didn't realise you'd already made the donation(s) Les but good on you for helping out those who need financial support, rather than it being like an individual winning on a scratch card

Quoted from jock dock tower

GTFC Handicapped Supporters Club?

Agree.

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Thanks for your donation, Les
£50.00
     
May Tees
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Your Donation Receipt Details

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Am I too late then to ask if I can use it for two Scunny tickets on the black Market ?
My usually reliable source has screwed up 😕😕

Well done Les, very good causes  

It's your money fella. Put it where you like.  Maybe in the future we could get a foreign Mariner over to see a game like Rochdale did.

Quoted from Mayaman

It's your money fella. Put it where you like.  Maybe in the future we could get a foreign Mariner over to see a game like Rochdale did.

It's not my money at all mate. It's money raised by the posters on here who entered The Fishy Buster on that occasion.

Anyway it's all been allocated and donated now.

The disabled supporters could still do with some funds

Quoted from grimps

The disabled supporters could still do with some funds

Could only please so many. I agree though and we'll maybe look at making a donation to them in the future.

Quoted from Les Brechin

A lot of good suggestions on here. I will split the money as suggested but 3 ways as I think maybe 10 would make the donation quite small, although I appreciate that every penny counts.

What I plan to do is split the money 3 ways (ie £50 each) to The Matt Tees Just Givng Fund, GTFC Youth set up and also The British Deaf Association, as I know that this is a cause very close to Ollie's heart.

Will that be okay for everyone if I do that?

Hi Les, I must have missed something in the recent past. Can you please send me details of the Matt Tees thing please?

Quoted from jock dock tower

Hi Les, I must have missed something in the recent past. Can you please send me details of the Matt Tees thing please?

Matt's wife May is raising money for The Alzhiemers Society for research into dementia.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/maytees

How about sponsoring 5 academy players? £30 a pop

Quoted from Civvy at last

Am I too late then to ask if I can use it for two Scunny tickets on the black Market ?
My usually reliable source has screwed up 😕😕

Always thought you were a charity case 😉

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Always thought you were a charity case 😉

To bl00dy right mate  

How about the National Deaf Children's Society being that some of Ollie's kids are deaf

A nice letter arrived from The British Deaf Foundation today.

Co-incidentally their HQ is in Holloway Road, London.

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Quoted from Les Brechin

A nice letter arrived from The British Deaf Foundation today.

Co-incidentally their HQ is in Holloway Road, London.

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I hope Ollie sees this or is told about it , I think he knows what kind of club he’s come too but this sort of thing underlines it

Good work Les. 👍