Rent a Date for Charity

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By Lisa Connell in January 2008

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Website:	http://www.RentADateForCharity.com
Company Overview:	In August 2006 Lisa Connell from North London was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour. Nobody knows if she has years or months to live. Since then she has made it her personal goal to create awareness of brain tumours within the UK. She has also been working very closely with Brain Tumour UK to raise funds for the cause and in July 2007 ran the Great British 10k London run raising £3,000.00 for the charity. The idea for Rent A Date For Charity came about after Lisa offered the chance for people to win a date with her cousin and her on her Myspace page. The rules were quite simple – the person who donated the most amount of money within a week would win the date. The idea soon evolved into Rent A Date For Charity. There are two ways you can help raise funds using Rent A Date For Charity: you can either enter yourself into the auction as a candidate for a date or you can bid on potential dates. To become a date candidate or bidder you first need to register. Once you have registered, you can now begin bidding on as many dates as you like! To place your own profile on the site you need to subscribe to become a 'date candidate'. The first time you enter the auction as a date candidate you will also be asked to subscribe. Once subscribed you can enter the auction as many times as you like and bid on as many candidates as you like. (read less) In August 2006 Lisa Connell from North London was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour. Nobody knows if she has years or months to live. Since then she has made it her personal goal to create awareness of brain tumours within the UK. She has also been working very closely with Brain Tumour UK to raise funds for the cause and in July 2007 ran the Great British 10k London run raising £3,000.00 for the charity. The idea for Rent A Date For Charity came about after Lisa offered the chance fo... (read more)
Mission:	Registration is Fast, Simple & FREE! As Featured: The Times Group, LK Today, London Tonight, The Sun, Look Magazine, ELLE Magazine Plus Many More... See Lisa's Blog for Details. Rent A Date For Charity is a fun approach to charity fundraising and also offers you the opportunity to meet new people and make friends online – you could even meet your perfect partner! Quite simply, you place bids to win a date and company profits will go towards research supported by Brain Tumour Charities and awareness campaigns organised by RDC. Every week we will also be featuring Celebrity Date Auctions so make sure you check back regularly to find the date of your dreams! If you haven’t already please take a moment to register for FREE to take full advantage of all the features on our site, including the opportunity to help us more by auctioning yourself off as a date candidate, then proceed to the auction area to help start raising funds for this very worthy cause and hopefully have plenty of fun along the way.
Products:	Celebrity Dates due Soon: Big Brother's Twins Sam & Amanda and the infamous Charlie! Recently Halo Films have put together a pilot video for the purpose of a one off documentary on Lisa’s story. They will be following her every move through the trials of setting up Rent A Date For Charity to her personal accounts of living and coping with a Brain Tumour. To check out the pilot video go to: http://www.rentadateforcharity.com/about.html To become a volunteer for Rent A Date For Charity please complete our new On-Line application form which can be found on the Contact Us Page. To help raise even more awareness Lisa is opening up the Celebrity Auctions ONLY to ALL other Charities. For other charities to be nominated please ask them to email us directly and the information will be sent to them. As the site is primarily a Brain Tumour Awareness campaign these other charities will not benefit from any of the overall profits that the site receives. They will only be eligible for the Celebrity Auctions they put forward. For more information please email us directly. This month Lisa is featured in ELLE Magazine, grab yourself a copy. Also this week Lisa will be featured in The Irish Post and next week The National Weekly Newspaper. To keep up to date on Lisa’s progress and media attention please visit her Blog which can be found on the main site page. Remember if your not successful the first time on the auctions you can keep renewing your Date Listing. Just because you haven’t had a bid first time doesn’t mean that no one is interested. As the site is continually growing and more and more interest is being received in the media as does the interest in the auctions. So please, help us today and place yourself up for auction on our site. Lisa to date has completed over 12 dates and you can too!

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Celebrity Candidates Needed Can you Help? ALL Charities Welcome...

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Rich wrote at 4:18pm on March 13th, 2008

Yep, that's exactly it - check out the site, http://www.rentadateforcharity.com

Barney wrote at 3:05am on March 3rd, 2008

so ppl bid to take ppl on a date??

Rent a Date for Charity wrote at 10:37am on January 21st, 2008

Volunteer Staff Required!

Do you have spare time on your hands? Would you like to help get involved with helping to create awareness and funding for brain tumour charities? Do you have internet access?

If the answer is yes then please email admin@rentdateforcharity.com enclosing your CV and a covering letter on how and why you would like to get involved. We are looking for people from all types of backgrounds with immediate starts.

Rich wrote at 11:57am on January 15th, 2008

Loving the new site!! Anyone who reads this, sign up now. It's fun, and it's very worthwhile.

Luv ya Lise
Rich
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Brisi wrote at 3:34am on January 11th, 2008

Hi Lisa,

is your website up and running now? i have persuaded a few friends of mine to join and put themselves fwd as candidates together with myself so let me know pls.

Many thanks

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Photo shoot with ELLE Magazine. May 2008 Edition which is on the shelves as from 1st April. 3 Page feature including Guest List Page.

Keep up to date on Lisa's events and media coverage with her on-line dairy!

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Application Form for Voluntary Work

http://www.rentadateforcharity.com/voluntary_work....

Thank you for your interest in being a Volunteer with Rent A Date For Charity. This information sheet is to assist you in thinking where you feel your life experiences and talents would be best suited and where we can mutually benefit each other.

Volunteer to work for Rent A Date For Charity today fill in this online application form. Positions in all areas including Media, Events, Marketing, Advertising, Customer Service and general Administration.

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