What a great idea, thanks for this opportunity, Russell.
We have just competed in the NSW and ACT Twitchathon. We're not "serious"
participants, but we are serious about raising money for bird conservation. We
enjoyed the weekend immensely - would you like to sponsor us retrospectively?
TEAM NAME: Laidback Lapwings, based in the Blue Mountains
TEAM MEMBERS: Arwen, Julie and Niki
EVENT: Champagne
SPECIAL CONSTRAINTS: none
TEAM OBJECTIVE: 1) raise money for the Cowra Woodland Birds Program ($1300 so
far!!), 2) 100 species (reached with 2 minutes to spare) and 3) "pledged to
fledge" one of our team members (and she's well and truly flown the nest now!).
Please email me off list if you would like to sponsor us.
For those who will be asking for sponsorships: I put out a request for pledges
on Facebook and also did a big group email to friends, family, etc.
Interestingly, I received ZERO offers from Facebook and LOADS of generous
pledges from that email (and I am humbled that so many people are keen to
support the cause and are so willing to back me). One of the difficulties is
for people who don't see you regularly to donate, so online donations through a
website would help enormously (also with distribution of receipts), though I
believe a portion of it usually goes to the company maintaining the website.
Actually I plagiarised part of one of my team mates' messages to her friends,
which I thought was worded nicely (I don't think she'd mind me putting it
here): "If you are thinking of allocating your charity contribution to a
conservation project this year, you might like to send it via the Laidback
Lapwings and make me feel good.. "
Thanks,
Arwen
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Arwen Blackwood
> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 17:42:37 +1100
> From:
> To:
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Twitchathon 2012
>
> Hi everyone
>
> Being a VIctorian, I tend to ignore things outside the Garden State. For
> example, our Twitchathon is on November 17-18, so I just assumed everyone
> would have a Twitchathon on November 17-18. Today I am in Queensland, and
> this has given me the opportunity to look at life from different
> perspectives, such as from the other side of the Murray River, or from an
> hour behind the rest of Western Civilisation (Qld still doesn't have
> Daylight Saving, in case anyone in Europe or North America is still
> reading).
>
> I was approached recently about the possibility of Twitchathon teams using
> Birding-Aus to appeal for sponsorship. I don't have any objection to this,
> as long as it's provided equally to everyone. And as long as we don't
> suddenly get 150 long messages detailing each team's history, biographies
> of team members, an outline of the team rationale, and a detailed analysis
> of carbon emission offsets per target species.
>
> Sadly, teams from NSW will have just completed their event, so any pleas
> for sponsorship may sound a little hollow when the members already know how
> many species have been seen - and how many missed. Regardless, I'd still
> like to provide a chance for anyone doing the Twitchathon to seek a little
> help from sponsors. I'd hope that Birdlife Australia will eventually put up
> a website or blog for participants in much the same way as Movember, and
> other events where people do silly things for worthy causes. In the
> meantime, I'd like to invite any serious Twitchathon participants to post a
> short appeal for sponsors using the following format - and nothing longer,
> please:
>
> TEAM NAME
> TEAM MEMBERS
> EVENT (8 hour, 24 hour, etc)
> SPECIAL CONSTRAINTS (Human powered transport,100Km radius, etc)
> TEAM OBJECTIVE (e.g. 200 species; to get to work on Monday)
>
> Please feel free to post after the event, and good luck to all teams
> participating, even if you are not doing it on the PROPER weekend of
> November 17-18!
>
> Russell
>
> Russell Woodford
> Birding-Aus List Owner
> http://www.birding-aus.org
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