As Derek, my Barber, was cutting my hair today, we discussed the village in which we live and who might possibly benefit the most from receiving £65. He came up with the idea of involving the kids in the local school. Now I am sure that they will be able to do some great possibility thinking.
Thanks for the comments posted in response to my recent blog entries. The idea from "Jane the cynic" to send £65 to each of the main political leaders is very appealing. It might also be interesting to contrast the difference the kids make with £65 to the differences a politician makes!
Hang on, this could build into a great idea for a fun challenge of who can make the biggest difference with £65. Post your comments for who else we could involve and I will sort out the details next week.
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good idea to involve kids. What about involving young entrepreneurs to turn your £65 into more and challenge more experienced business people to make a difference - with all profits to a charity of their choice?
What about an Apprentice £65 challenge between Alan Sugar & Donald Trump. Or Tony Blair & Gordon Brown?
Give Ant & Dec £65 each and see who makes the greatest difference
Great idea here Andy - and one which I have been thinking who I could involve.
My mum is disabled and is looked after one day a week by a great group of women at her local day care home, all on a voluntary basis.
I have therefore decided to buy a £5 lottery ticket for each of the 13 volunteer helpers. Fingers crossed.
Hi Andy,
Applaud the initiative. Does the giveaway apply to the UK only or can people in Continental Europe also participate? £65 is about €100 which seems to me to be a good amount to begin making a difference with.
Well done. We'll do something to emulate your example and will watch to see how your idea develops.
Hi Andy, Fiona Downs here from Lenovo - we met on the boat last year. I think your blog is great and have been watching your poker face experience with great interest and admiration. Whilst I love the idea of what can make the biggest difference from £65 in either a business, political or environmental context I wanted to share with you my personal views based on what has happened to me in the last 6 months. But don't worry, I am not wanting to change your 'mission', I just feel compelled to put my spin on it.
So (deep breath) at my husbands 40th Birthday party last year I found a lump in my Breast (evidently something that happens to 40,000 women in each year), so no big suprise there. Within one week I had a consultation and they told me within 2 mins of walking in that I had breast cancer and that I would have to have my left breast and all of the lypmph glands under my armpit removed too. What they couldn't tell me was how bad it was, but that I would know the next day. The following day we returned to the hospital to be told that I had advanced breast cancer and that I would have my operation 5 days later as I was now at the top of the list. I read the stats on all of the official website and reassured myself that 48% survival was pretty good and being the person that I am, I will be in the survival rates. I had my operation and then started my Chemo. Usual stuff - my hair is gone, I have ballooned in weight because of the steroids, I feel constantly sick and tired and have lost all my energy. But hey there are 40,000 of us going through that so you start to get over it. In January I was told (because I pushed to get this checked out) that my cancer had spread to the bones, and at 36 years old (a very young 36 year old!) I now have a 4% chance of being alive in 5 years time. Hey, I still think I will be one of the 5%.
Why am I telling you this? I am telling you this because what would make a 'difference' depends on where you are on your journey. I still work 12 hours a day (I know!), and I realise that is because I love it. I still make a difference in my company and think that I have the most inspirational influence on my team. But what is going to make me feel that I have made a difference? I have been trying to work that one out, as I may not have a lot of time to do that. An easy answer is that I could take a bottle of champagne into my Chemo nurse, who sits with me when my veins wont work, and she has booked cinema tickets, but she has to miss it because I am going to die from this and she is trying to make me better and make my life longer. Andy, I don't want the £65, I just want to say that making a difference happens in many ways, and I know that you know that. So please write a book on this, and try and spread the word, like in the film where the little boy passes on doing good things. You may think it twee or idealist, but please take my comment as just another thought.One way I could make a big difference is that I could write a book that tells women in the western world that we are all getting cancer because of our diet and no-one will believe it, or maybe I will spend my precious time with the people I love and not making a 'difference' at all....thanks for letting me ramble - now WAKE UP - you have work to do! Take care, Fiona
Hi
I would use £65 to buy a really good, basic oncology textbook and use it to train inexperienced pharmacists to manage drug therapy, really making a difference for hundreds of patients with cancer
I would give the £65 to the pupil who achieves the best grades at GCSE in the August results. This would encourage the pupils to aim high.
(Portland School, Sparken Hill, Worksop, Notts S80 1AW)
I am involving my wife & 3 kids to decide what difference we will make with £65. It is a great possibility thinking exercise to do and educational for the kids as they come up with up new ways of helping people. I think you should definitely do something with young people. Keep up the good work.
Hi Andy.
News travels fast especially when there is money to be had for free. Congratulations from 'down under' on the particular difference you are making with your Poker Face win of BP65,000. Great idea.
I would use BP65 to help a small village on Santa Isabel in the Solomon Islands. The women there have asked for saucepans and calico so that they can receive training in how to cook nutritionally and also how to make use of their excess produce more productively so that they can sell it and add to their income to help feed their families..65 British Pounds would make a huge difference to them.
I would suggest that when they make their first $65 that they then donate it to another village to help them with one of their community projects and so on throughout the Solomons. The islanders are very poor but keen to help themselves to move from subsistence farming to doing something more commercial.
June from Australia.
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