Fundraising Blog
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The Fundraising Blog
Here at Firewalking International we want your Fundraising Adventure to be easy and fun. Organising a Charity Firewalk or a Charity Glass Walk can be made a lot easier by reading these posts.
The Fundraising Blog is crammed with useful knowledge, hints and ideas to make it easy for you and your Fundraising Event. We answer a lot of the common questions and misconceptions organisers have. And we share a lot of stories from previous events as a source of inspiration for you and your Fundraisers.
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Firewalking helped change my life
September 2013, I find myself separated from my husband, homeless, penniless and feeling very very sorry for myself. I allowed myself to feel and live like this until New Year’s Eve 2015. This is when I signed up to a New Year's Eve Retreat with Firewalking...
Alzheimer’s Society Firewalk
We are delighted to be leading the Alzheimer's Society Firewalk on the 17th February at St. Columb's Park House in Derry. They have said, "This is our most challenging event to take place in Derry ever!!!". Dementia can happen to anyone and there's currently no cure....
I’ve Learned
I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas...
Happiness is a journey, not a destination
We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren't old enough and we'll be more content when they are. After that we're frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will...
These guys raised £22,000 for Parkinson’s Support Fermanagh
It is no surprise that these guys raised over £22,000 at the Parkinson's Support Firewalk. Mark Corrigan from Inn Stock Services and Nuala Lilley from Nature's Choice wanted to raise money for their local Parkinson's Support Group which is in Enniskillen. Both of...
How charities can create an engaged social media community
The largest single investment for any organisation on social media will be establishing an interactive audience. If you do not achieve this then your messages and calls to action will not be heard. You will literally be talking to yourself. When Bloom Creative Media...
TKMaxx Firewalk for Enable Ireland (part two)
We were in Dublin only 3 days after the TKMaxx Firewalk in Limerick to run another charity Firewalk for TKMaxx. Again, this Firewalk was to raise money for Enable Ireland, a charity that TKMaxx do a lot of work with, both in terms of fundraising and raising the...
The Seven Teachings of the Anishinaabe
The Seven Teachings of the Anishinaabe (The People-- the Ojibwe, the Odowa and the Potawatome) Teachings of the Seven Grandfathers, known simply as either the Seven Teachings or Seven Grandfathers, is a set of teaching on human conduct towards others, taught among the...
TKMaxx Firewalk for Enable Ireland (part one)
We were contacted by Sharon Harkin from TKMaxx about a month before we ran their first fundraising Firewalk for Enable Ireland. She was the new fundraising champion and wanted to do something a “little” different. It really only took one phone conversation and plans...
Glass Walking Benefits
Glass Walking BenefitsOur research shows that 73% of people are happier to try Firewalking as opposed to Glass Walking. The moment Glass Walking is mentioned, people can be seized with fear and it’s not uncommon for them to instinctively say “not a chance” without...
Cork Samaritans Charity Firewalk
This Firewalk came about because of a simple hello to a stranger at Ballintoy Harbour. I got chatting to Allana and it turned out she had recently taken part in a Firewalk with Ballymena Samaritans and was pretty excited to discover that there was a Firewalking...
Do you invest in yourself?
Are you going to make 2017 your year? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-jwWYX7Jlo Invest in yourself... I don’t know what that dream is that you have. I don’t care how disappointing it might have been, as you’ve been working towards that dream. That the dream...