First off; let me say I am nothing to do with any fundraising thats going on.
Secondly; I am nothing to do with racing apart for loving to watch it.
I have logged on to here due to being told that this topic was started and some of the things stated have been told to me before hand.
I have read through the comments and I am shocked at some of them to say the least.
Nick Crowe and Mark Cox by all accounts are in a bad way, their friends and family have started fundraising.
Now, this did start off as a normal fundraiser and it still is a normal fundraiser not a charity, ie; friends and family doing the work. I do believe they have even been begging for people to help a bagpack in the ramsey area on facebook and radio, so they havent been handed everything they have had to go out there and get it, which having been involved in fundraisng in the past for various things, I know can be harder than it seems its alot of very hard, hard work, which these people are doing.
Now this fundraising has took off, well done to them! some people have come along to say " well hang on....all that money is being raisied here, its alot, there are others that need help too " Would you be saying that if they had kept this to a bottle in the local pub and a fundraising night, NO.... you wouldnt! The fact is these 2 people need alot of money badly and quickly and someone has done it for them and again, I say well done to them.
But what right has anyone to now say your getting to much now from all that hard work helping a mate (as if.. they could get to much) so share it round.
You all forget that most charity's were started off by these people helping friends and family and in some cases are turned into something bigger for years after !!!!!!! People who know fundraising will know these people have a certain time frame to get this money in before it sadly becomes old news, which the fundraisers will know full well. Then the donations step back to all the main charity's.
I have also read from one main fundraiser that the money raised will be held, used by the boys to help them until they sort themselfs out and any money then left over will be used for other things to do with the TT and Manx. In other words they do not intend to use money if its not needed !
I understand there are others out there that need help but speaking from a pubic view if a bucket is put in front of me I decide if I put my money in, which is the case for everyone donating to this fund. So far, I have only had 1 bucket in front of me, for Nick Crowe and Mark Cox and its their friends and family that have done it with a lot of hard work involved.
Please do not knock the help these people do, because that seems to be coming across in some posts, there are lots of friends and family's that do things like this and sometimes they can do better than a well set up charity can, short term.
Any new fundraiser gets more mentions than the old ones sad but it always goes like that but to knock people for promoting their fundraising over others is abit harsh. you get what you put in and to get money you have to get it out there and then do the follow up on it or you dont get money!
With my comments, I do not intend to knock any efforts, made by others to fundraise for any others who need some help and also hope they do well.
To give them their due on this one they have moved fast and built it up as they have gone and keep in mind that they have done this for their friends and family and they will be only using what they need to use, plus its all the more money left in the kitty of these other charity's for other use.
happychick