Raising money for Lincoln ICU

Facebook is the choice of everyone for social media. Twitter's not bad but you can do so much more with Facebook. So creating a page to do this charity thing seemed the logical step.

I have ended up making two pages- one is called a 'page' and it seems you suggest to people that they should 'like' it so they get the updates. The other is a 'group' and I don't really get what the difference is. Anyone know the answer, please post! lol. I think you just add people and it's then up to them if they stay part of the group or not.

So the grand plan for this summer is a mixed bag of cycling and running. The list is prepared (see Summer Tour page) I'm signed up and raring to go. I just need to set up the on-line donations page... you know, Just Giving, Virgin Money Giving etc.. done it before, no problem!

STOP!

Lincolnshire NHS/ ICU has no on-line charity page! If it's not a big cheque that can be photographed and put in the Echo, we have no other way of accepting donations. How retro! How 1970's! How useless.

WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?!

I emailed them. A nice chap called Adrian replied informing me that "we are getting more and more people asking about donating on-line" and he was "trying to bring us into the 21st Century for quite a while now"
OK, got him on-side but next email  I got -"I have got to put together a paper to go to the committee so it can be approved" Unreal!!
Anyway, it's now 6 weeks since I first emailed Adrian and on Friday just gone (27 May) he emails-
"Good news, the Chairman and Director of Finance have given the approval for the Virgin Money Giving online donation service. I will get all the paperwork off today and keep you informed of progress."

RESULT!

Hopefully this week will bring me the on-line charity page. 

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