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Sounds a bit dodgy, caught with thier fingers in the till?

As there is no legislation in place to say X% msut be passed onto the charities, they are not doing anything illegal.

But is it moral? The charities certainly DON'T think so.

I also have a problem with people going on a sponsored walk E.g. " To walk the great wall of china ". Who is paying for your transport to China ?

Is it coming out of the sponsorship money? You are getting a nice wee holiday and an expeirence of a life time.

That also sounds too commercial for my liking.

100% of money raised should go to the charity.

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Surely the 'entry fee' covers all the event costs, then all the money raised goes to charity?

£780k costs for 12,000 people works out at £65 a head, which seems somewhat excessive to put up a few arrows on a path.

The director gets £50- 70 k depending on the amount raised and then you have all the full time staff's salaries.

These wages must be funded from the sponsorship money, or are there other revenue streams?

Doubt it considering the amonut passed on to the charties.

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yes its devestating to find only half the money you raised goes towards the charties & the rest is squandered away on salaries etc . Not good at all

Especially when you are hassling folk for money because they increased the minimum amount.

Surely the 'entry fee' covers all the event costs, then all the money raised goes to charity?

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That's what i thought as well, that's the impression that is given when you sign up.

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Was there not somebody on here that used to promote it all the time?

Aye that would be Carey the CEO of the kiltwalk I believe he is the one on 60-70 k a year, stoped sponsering folk who were dong it a couple of years ago as it just did not feel right,

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I also have a problem with people going on a sponsored walk E.g. " To walk the great wall of china ". Who is paying for your transport to China ?

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Surely you would pay the transport etc with your own money ? I always thought that was what happened!

We did the cycle to Wembley for the TACC & certainly paid all of our own expenses & travel etc.

TACC released statement earlier on today about not continuing to work in partnership with the Kiltwalk

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I hope that in the near future it will perhaps emerge that the charity partners got less than expected due to more teams doing the kiltwalk and choosing smaller, local charities to benefit which would have meant less in the pot for the main partner charities. I certainly wouldn't like to think that so much has been spent on promoting the walks or on salaries.

As an aside, I'll take this opportunity to promote my sponsor page for this years kiltwalks:

My page: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/dillydallydicksons

And mention that because I have entered all six Scottish walks (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Perth & Speyside) ALL of the money raised will will be going to charities chosen by my wife and I (which are the TACC and CrossReach) so you can rest assured that all donations will reach these charities. I am also doing the Great Wall of China Kilttrek but I won my space on that through a radio competition so all of the expenses have been met.

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Girl in work was told she had to have a minimum of £200 in sponsorship pledges to walk.

They say that is the minimum, but they won't stop you walking if you don't reach it.

There appeared to be a bit of crossed wires a few weeks ago when the Kiltwalk said that a large proportion of entrants (about 40% maybe?) made no sponsorship at all, but a lot of people commented on their facebook page saying that they had made money as part of a team rather than individually.

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Sounds a bit dodgy, caught with thier fingers in the till?

As there is no legislation in place to say X% msut be passed onto the charities, they are not doing anything illegal.

But is it moral? The charities certainly DON'T think so.

I also have a problem with people going on a sponsored walk E.g. " To walk the great wall of china ". Who is paying for your transport to China ?

Is it coming out of the sponsorship money? You are getting a nice wee holiday and an expeirence of a life time.

That also sounds too commercial for my liking.

100% of money raised should go to the charity.

End of.

Think they have to raise £3k whether through sponsorship or paying a chunk of it themselves.

Deceided to do the Loch Ness Marathon and raise money for the Sunshine Appeal instead of doing a kiltwalk last year.

If its £200 minimum sponsorship again then i will probably be doing the same again this year

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Surely you would pay the transport etc with your own money ? I always thought that was what happened!

We did the cycle to Wembley for the TACC & certainly paid all of our own expenses & travel etc.

TACC released statement earlier on today about not continuing to work in partnership with the Kiltwalk

You would think so, but thats not the impression I fot from an advert i seen.

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Think they have to raise £3k whether through sponsorship or paying a chunk of it themselves.

Cheers Ally, that sounds accurate. Still don't agree with it 100%, but its not black and white depends on what the chairties get. Uncomforatble with 80% going to charity, 50% just seems wrong and obvioulsy the kilt walk's nominated charity partners agree.

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Surely all those who help on the kiltwalks are volunteers?

That was my understanding aswell Bruce, I can recall reading an advert recruitng unpaid ( volunteer) marshalls for the event.

Makes the 50% sum that is passed on even more questionable. :angry:

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