Friday, June 23, 2006

Friday Fun - Oxfam Ireland Donation Drive

Every little helps... we got a comment on our site from a blogger called Jason Roe, he commented a load of blogs posting about a small competition he was running in order to find a hotel in Cork. A bit spammy maybe, or maybe I should say 'a publicity excercise which had a vague aroma of spam about it...', thing is it worked because it was obvious there was no ill intent behind it and several people responded to his Hotel search.

First prize was €10, and the second prize was €5

To cut a long story short, I came first and Donncha (from inPhotos) came second. I was notified by email and I thought to myself "you know what, that tenner should go to charity", so I had a look around and found Oxfam Ireland's website.

I headed over to Jason's blog to let him know to donate the money to charity only to find Donncha had had exactly the same response. So €15 went to Oxfam through their online donation form.

Fair play to Jason for donating it immediately (see comments on his post).

So it's Friday and €15 quid has been donated to charity.

I thought about it and decided to match that €15 myself, so now €30 had been donated to Oxfam out of this stunt - anyone else feeling charitable this Friday afternoon?

I'm encouraging anyone who reads this to donate anything between €5 and €15 and to then also encourage someone else to do it.

Come one, it's easy and you'll feel good!