Your thoughts please

[Roz]

Helen,  I think we should discount paypal...let's just send Chrissie cards with £1 coins stuck inside them (I mean literally stuck with sellotape ha ha) if there is no other way of making a payment.

Sadly, I do realise that there will not be 1000 people subscribing to this but every little helps...even if it's just a bag of catfood that doesn't have to be bought with precious funds.  And just £30 would pay for a spay........  

Lots of love

Roz

[Tiggy's Mum]

Count me in too, I do think it's a great idea but sadly I don't think anywhere near 1000 of our members are active.  I know Purrs has it's own paypal address but bear in mind paypal takes 20p per transaction + 3.4% so only 76p would go to the rescues if people chose to give £1 via paypal.

[Roz]

Hi everyone,

Thanks so much for your support.

I think if enough people support this idea we should start a thread specifically for it e.g Xmas £1 Donation Fund for Rescues...or something like that.

Then everyone who wishes to subscribe should list their name.

Once we know all the members who wish to contribute we can work out how much we have collected and apportion it equally between the remaining rescues.  If there is not an existing fund on Purrs for charity fundraising, then we could each be allocated one of the recipient charities to donate our £1 to......it would just be alphabetically selected say..........

If paypal takes too much of the £1 to make it viable, then perhaps those members who cannot just transfer their money in any other way could send a Chrissie card to the rescue their money is to go to with a £1 coin stuck in it!!!

Does that make sense? 

As in the auction, we could post when we had made our payment.

Lots of love

Roz

[hannah (weeny)]

so can we have the adresses to various rescues paypal accounts please?  cos i like this idea too 

[carl (billy and baggys dad)]

You give Minimopsical pocket money Teresa??

Blimey. Better not let my lads know.

[Teresa Pawcats]

Count me in Roz and Minimopsical too as she has her own username.

[sheryl]

count me in too

[Bazsmum]

If I didnt mention it....me too 

[le chat noir]

Great idea - I would love to this

[carl (billy and baggys dad)]

So folk chip in and the total gets divided between the rescues? I'm in for that. Grand idea Roz 

[Dawn F]

I'll happily join in, I don't have a paypal account but a friend has said I can use hers if I ever need to

[chrisleitz]

Count me in.  I  do most of my money transactions from bank a/c to bank a/c so would be quite happy to pay my contribution straight into a 'fund' account.  Never quite got the hang of PayPal.

[Roz]

My reasoning for this is this: We have over a thousand members on this site now.  Admittedly, not all of these members are posting every day.  But, theoretically, it should be possible to raise quite a bit of money ffom very little individual outlay.

I feel that by restricting the figure to £1 we could attract more donors. 

A thousand pounds from one donor would possibly cause financial hardship to that one person.  But a thousand pounds raised by a thousand people would be very stress-free....and could do so much good.

It is Christmas...and every extra pound would mean so much.

Lots of love

Roz

[Roz]

Hi Ruth,

I would like to think so...but as I said, I just want your thoughts.  Personally, I always transfer my funds from my bank via telephone so it would be very easy.  All I would need would be a sort code and bank account.  Do we not have such a thing on the fundraising site?

[Bazsmum]

I know that if you pay via paypal they will take a fee....would there be some "one" place all donations could go to then be shared out? 

[Roz]

Hi all you generous cat-lovers,

Following the very successful auction, could we all go the extra mile and give £1 towards the other charities on this site.  They are certainly not complaining (this just my idea) but I know they could all use the extra money....and what is a pound?  I'm insisting that it should not be more because this would make it difficult for some of the members...especially after the auction.  Private donations can be whatever people like but this is just an idea whereby we could all raise just a little bit more for the other charities this site subscribes to....Your thoughts please.

Lots of love

Roz