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How to Organise a Charity Abseil Event

How to Organise a Charity Abseil Event How to organise a charity abseil event: If you're interested in running a charity abseil event, then this article will give you the information you need to set one up. A charity abseil event is a great way to raise money for charity. Usually making on average between £4,000 and £40,000 a day depending on the location and the number of participants abseiling. Not only is it a great way to raise money, a charity abseil event is also a fantastic way of marketing your company or charity and getting some media coverage. This is often forgotten about and overlooked but it does add massive value to the event. If you're an individual looking to organise a charity abseil event, then the best place to start is by contacting the charity that you wish to fund raise for and ask them if they want to get involved. If the charity wants to get involved, then they can help advertise the event and find extra participants. If the charity doesn't want to help or already has a full fundraising calendar, then consider getting a group of people together as this will work out cheaper per person overall. If you're a company or a charity and want to organise a charity abseil event, then it's a very easy process as you have access to many potential participants through the office you work in, social media or by advertising in the local area. Even on the day of the event, people watching the abseil take place will want to have a go and will often ask if they can participate. This is another great way of adding an extra few [...]

By |2020-06-27T13:02:39+01:00December 2nd, 2015|Blog|0 Comments
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Charity Abseil in Sheffield

Just got back from a fine weekend running a charity abseil in Sheffield with some awesome rock climbing on the Saturday too. We started the journey north on Saturday morning early and got side tracked by the Decathlon store by the motorway in Birmingham. For those new to the outdoor game or like my friend and climbing partner Jonnie who had not been into the wonderful world of Decathlon, it's a bit of a 'kid in a sweet shop' scenario. Lots of great kit at really cheap prices and top quality too - there you go Decathlon, that's my plug for you. So after lightning our wallets we carried on to High Tor a limestone crag in the peaks and one of the best bits of limestone around. I wanted to climbing a few routes and get the arms working again after a little time off but what happened was very different. It was freezing with a strong northerly blowing and after the warm up on "Original Route" HVS 5a, my fingers, toes had nearly fallen off and it turned out that there was some good games of rugby going on that day. So what did we do......yes, we went to the pub and watch the last bit of the Irish game and all of the English game. Some cracking rugby was viewed. The next day we were up at just gone 5 am to get across to Sheffield and over to the Owen building of the Sheffield university to help Challenge Events run a charity abseil fundraising event for a Childrens charity.  The morning was cold and very over cast the rigging for this particular job was quite complex with plenty of kit was needed [...]

By |2020-07-07T06:55:47+01:00March 23rd, 2015|Blog|0 Comments
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Abseil Event

I ran an Abseil Event for Macdonald Hotel chain last week, doing the 12 days of Christmas via abseil down the front face of their hotel opposite Windsor Castle. The aim of the abseil event was for 12 abseilers to complete the abseil down the front face of the hotel with festive music playing for the crowds to sing along too, bringing to life the 12 days of Christmas. The event was for the local people in the towns advent calender (more info here) but it was also a great way to generate marketing interest in the hotel chain as four local papers turned up to capture the action. I had done the site visit a few weeks prior and myself and Choire were rigging off the roof of the hotel with the take off being from the balcony of room 406. Something a little bit different for an abseil event with the participants having to walk through a lovely hotel suite to get to the abseil in all there gear. We gave ourselves plenty of time to setup the abseil event during the day, then participants started arriving at around 4:45 pm for a briefing at 5 pm. The 12 abseilers were from the local area such as the town mayor, Windsor and Eton town center manager and such like. We had rigged a practice abseil in the lower level car park so that after kitting people up they could have a go at abseiling on the flat and receive some coaching. We then took the abseilers up through the hotel, into a free hotel room next to take off point were we had tea and coffee setup and another practice abseil inside the hotel room. [...]

By |2020-07-07T06:58:15+01:00December 27th, 2014|Blog|0 Comments
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Abseil to Raise Money in 2015

Why not abseil to raise money in 2015 ? If so a charity abseil or abseil event could be just the thing. On the last few abseil events that we have run as an abseil company the charity that we have been working for has raised between £4000 and £10,000 per day - that's not to bad at all. An abseil is a totally safe way of raising money and the profile of your company or charity. Also people are more likely to donate their money due to the challenging nature of the event taking place. The great thing with abseils is they can be run nearly any where that has a vertical drop (or near vertical drop)  - your office building, cliffs near by, dams, stadiums even large cranes can work. [su_quote]"Dave’s team were brilliant, and the event ran extremely smoothly from start to finish with 100% smiley abseiler faces coming back to me when they came to pick up their certificates afterwards. Every single member of the Mountain Vision team were very professional and put each one of our participants at ease, creating personal and memorable experiences for our very happy abseilers!" Childrens Hospice South West[/su_quote] If you have a venue in mind we can help you get permission to run a charity abseil or abseil event with our comprehensive insurance, risk assessments, qualifications of our staff and experience, that you can present to the site owners. After permission has been granted, we can even help you advertise the abseil in order to help you fill the slots and raise more money. All of our abseil events have up to 50 participant places a day to abseil and can work out to be less than £15 per person, so even if someone [...]

By |2017-02-17T16:14:56+00:00December 5th, 2014|Blog|0 Comments
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