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5 forum posts to date and three of them in this thread vested interest MT 22?

The issues I have with R4L are that they mislead people into entering on the basis that they are raising money for cancer research when NOTHING goes to fund research unless they raise sponsorship in addition to the entry fees. Misleading advertising at best

They discriminate against men as they are women only races. Do men not get cancer? 

For those who say a lot of it is based on the Pink breast cancer charities I am attending a funeral on Tuesday of a 36 year old man who died from Breast Cancer. Breast Cancer dont fund research into Male Breast cancer!

• Your race pack and communications
• Postage of entry packs
• Barriers and staging
• Venue hire
• PA system
• Toilets
• Medals
• Marquees
• Signage
• Medical Providers 

Your entry / registration fee helps to cover the cost of all our Race for Life events, not just one individual event. Every location has very different requirements and running costs so to enable us to manage this efficiently the entry fee is fixed across all events.

 right found this..........as a lot of these things marquees, signage, pa systems...can be used at each different event and year in year out how is the cost so high......venue hire seems to be an open park in many places........

Ii would be interested in seeing the breakdown of the money spent on these and how much is spent on salaries for people to do it.no problem if they are reasonable and doing a busy job...just i couldn't find the information on the web and i think these things should be transparent..........

The One quoted by MT 22 took £156,500.00 in entry fees for an event staged in a Park, would be interested to see the breakdown of the costs and expenses for that.

JPenno wrote (see)

5 forum posts to date and three of them in this thread vested interest MT 22?

The issues I have with R4L are that they mislead people into entering on the basis that they are raising money for cancer research when NOTHING goes to fund research unless they raise sponsorship in addition to the entry fees. Misleading advertising at best

They discriminate against men as they are women only races. Do men not get cancer? 

For those who say a lot of it is based on the Pink breast cancer charities I am attending a funeral on Tuesday of a 36 year old man who died from Breast Cancer. Breast Cancer dont fund research into Male Breast cancer!

JPenno wrote (see)

5 forum posts to date and three of them in this thread vested interest MT 22?

The issues I have with R4L are that they mislead people into entering on the basis that they are raising money for cancer research when NOTHING goes to fund research unless they raise sponsorship in addition to the entry fees. Misleading advertising at best

They discriminate against men as they are women only races. Do men not get cancer? 

For those who say a lot of it is based on the Pink breast cancer charities I am attending a funeral on Tuesday of a 36 year old man who died from Breast Cancer. Breast Cancer dont fund research into Male Breast cancer!

No vested interest, just standing up for a cause I believe in. I think it's a shame that the majority of people jump to conclusions, with no knowledge of the events/what the money goes to and slate an event that a lot of women love to take part in and which raises a vast amount of money for CRUK. £493 million is a lot of money which would not have been raised had these events not been put on! 

Check their website - pretty self explanatory really

Your missing the Point Race 4 Life does not raise a penny for Cancer research, the participants do.

Race for Life takes a considerable amount of entry fees. If there have been 6 million entrants paying £10 each (and its always been more) then thats £60 million in fees alone, must have been a hefty profit - How Much has Run for Life donated from its takings?

Race for Life is a product of Cancer Research UK - without the events no money will be raised. If you don't believe that any extra money they have goes into the research pot, where do you think this 'profit' is going? 

M T 22 wrote (see)

Another person taking away from the positivity of the events and the research the money funds! 

Oh I love all that, just don't like the blackmail and the slurs on the participants who genuinely think they are helping to fund cancer research when they enter the race. 

Mr Puffy wrote (see)

M T 22 wrote (see)

Another person taking away from the positivity of the events and the research the money funds! 

Oh I love all that, just don't like the blackmail and the slurs on the participants who genuinely think they are helping to fund cancer research when they enter the race. 

 

Blackmail? It clearly states on the website what the entry fee is for.. As said before, without the events the millions would not have been raised! There are always people with negative views when others are trying to do good, big shame really! Of course the alternative is to not have an entry fee at all and then take the cost of organising the events from people's sponsorship money! Enter any organised event and you have to pay! 

You've missed the bit where the announcers and the press releases accuse women of not returning their sponsorship money. Perhaps they didn't get any? Or perhaps they thought that the over-the-top entry fee, which would give any commercial organiser a healthy profit, was enough of a donation?

M T 22 wrote (see)

Mr Puffy wrote (see)

M T 22 wrote (see)

Another person taking away from the positivity of the events and the research the money funds! 

Oh I love all that, just don't like the blackmail and the slurs on the participants who genuinely think they are helping to fund cancer research when they enter the race. 

 

Blackmail? It clearly states on the website what the entry fee is for.. As said before, without the events the millions would not have been raised! There are always people with negative views when others are trying to do good, big shame really! Of course the alternative is to not have an entry fee at all and then take the cost of organising the events from people's sponsorship money! Enter any organised event and you have to pay! 

An organised event in a Park, with no road closures and using equipment previously purchased and with no chip timing could be done at minimal cost. The thing that gets most of the people who have posted in this thread is that they clearly state that NONE of the entry fee goes to charity - so where does it go?

As you state there will always be people with negative views, those clearly outweigh the positive views on this thread.

For someone with no vested interest you appear to have a bit to say, particularly as the thread poster who is obviously connected to R4L (but didnt want to pay RW for advertising) has gone very quiet

IF you can provide the figures and show where the £14.99 per entrant goes then people may change their views, R4L is generally good for running as it gets women (as men arent allowed to enter) off their fat arses and doing something, Its the way that the appear to mislead people into believing they have made a donation by entering and then plague them after the event for sponsorship.

Plenty of people do think that their entry fee goes to charity, this has been mentioned fairly often on these threads. I think more people understand this now.

I have to say that their webpage isnt very clear on this at all. Maybe its clearer when you actually sign up to a race though. 

M T 22 wrote (see)

I agree that they should state where (if there are any) the profits go but I can hardly imagine they go any where else other than into the research! I highly doubt that someone is taking it home with them however not all are in parks and it does state that the entry fee goes to organisation of all events!

Limited imagination I suspect then MT22.......

If a person is a tax payer, is that not charity enough?