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2008-11-04 09:25:24Catherine Bennett: When they ask for sponsorship, tell them to get on their bikes
If, as seems likely, they have survived their South African motorcycling holiday, princes William and Harry should soon be enjoying their second heroes' welcome in two days. The first was scheduled by their tour operator to occur this weekend, on the last leg of their eight-day journey, with the town of Port Elizabeth required to supply 'a police cavalcade' and 'pomp and ceremony to welcome you home'. For the second, we can surely count on the BBC, which has repeatedly expressed keen appreciation of the skill and valour this holiday will have demanded from William and Harry.Or 'the young princes' as its royal correspondent Peter Hunt poignantly calls them, as if they will soon be confined, once again, to a shared chamber in a doomy Tower, their hoodies replaced with black velvet suits by Millais and their return to the shimmering veldt about as likely as a conjugal visit from Chelsy Davy.Amid all this idolatry, it has not always been clear what made their Enduro Africa expedition any different from, say, a long motorbike trip organised by an obscurish tour business which has now, thanks to unstinting media repetition, branded itself a global charitable endeavour. One gathers, from 'Enduro', that hardships of a noisy, mechanical nature will have been overcome, and from 'Africa', that this was the price of helping the needy. But in interviews, Enduro's lucky beneficiaries have stimulated less interest than the princes' sang-froid. Just 'how gruelling,' asked one correspondent, did they expect this journey to beAnd yet, as the Enduro Africa website indicates, the world is full of hobbyists who would like nothing better than to experience this agony for themselves. Former travellers testify to the awesome, life-changing nature of an isolated biking holiday, accompanied by no more than around 100 like-minded white folks and a few locals to mend stuff. 'People can be very happy with very little,' concludes one traveller. Even before they had set off, one prince - it might have been the other - averred that 'there may be an opinion that we're just riding bikes, but we're not'. On the first day, they also wore tribal-style face paint.Interested Then sign up, pronto, for a place on the 2009 trip, since recent stories about catastrophic climate change appear to have done little to discourage the truly idealistic biker. 'This challenge offers you the opportunity to learn about yourself and push your limits,' tantalises Enduro-whatsit. 'The aim of the rally is to raise at least £150,000 to the charities we support.' Best not to be too ambitious. But how much does it cost to follow in the exhaust fumes of the princes Here is the splendid thing: because this holiday is also a personal challenge which benefits poor people, it need not cost the holidaymaker anything at all.Here's how. 'Riders will need to raise a minimum of £4,995 in sponsorship,' say the organisers, requesting that this be sent to them direct. 'For each participant, we promise to donate a minimum of £1,500 from your overall sponsorship target.' This year, the charities benefiting, once the business has subtracted its share, include Harry's Clarence House-based Sentebale, in aid of Aids orphans, whose first accounts were published last March. These showed that of £1.15m raised for the charity, a dismal fraction - £84,000 - had been distributed to the children.But many other longer-established charities are eager to profit from similar arrangements, from, say, Devon's Donkey Sanctuary, with its moderately gruelling three-day Spanish hike minimum donation £1,500, to Scope, the cerebral palsy charity, which is currently inviting able-bodied adventurers to sign up for a 'life-changing experience', such as its Everest expedition £3,500: 'You'll spend 13 days trekking in the footsteps of Sir Edmund Hillary...'Once the tourists have signed up, the charity provides advice on fundraising the full amount and, perhaps more importantly, reassurance that it is perfectly ethical to ask donors - in Scope's name - to fund life-changing experiences for people who are lucky enough not to have cerebral palsy. 'Not only are you dedicating all your spare time to fundraising the minimum sponsorship, which is a challenge in itself,' it soothes, 'you are also undertaking a difficult and intense physical challenge which will require lots of training and mental courage whilst on the trip itself.'Credit for the astonishingly low death rates on these adventures, which are now offered by all but the greenest charities, should probably go to the challenge organisers, usually dedicated adventure-tourism businesses which are themselves familiar with the challenge of guiding puffing tourists up and down the worn slopes of Kilimanjaro, dragging them round the ice on dogsleds or applying their blister plasters on the Great Wall of China. Indeed the choice of challenges is such that many aspiring altruists now find it simpler to approach a travel company first, pick a holiday and only then choose from a drop-down list of charities prepared to endorse their outing. Meningitis or colonic cancer Cats or people Cats with meningitis Clearly, it makes fundraising sense to pick the most affecting combination.Once the charity has endorsed your trip, it is a simple matter to contact a local paper, promise to shave your head and set up a Justgiving page, where the rigours and privileged nature of this expedition can be shamelessly puffed up, in the manner of modern charity, and the question of its funding readily obscured. 'Every penny goes to charity x,' the trippers might say or: 'The money goes straight to y' - neglecting to point out that, in these arrangements, the travel company will routinely bill the charity for the cost of fundraisers' holidays.Understandably, given its popularity, some would-be fundraisers are beginning to wonder if this emphasis on adventure does not discriminate against more delicate and hedonistic vacationers. It would make no difference to Harry's Aids orphans, after all, if their money came on the back of a free wine-tasting trek round South African vineyards, a gondola safari round Venice or a paid poisoning tour of Corfu 'in the footsteps of Lord Mandelson'. The only challenge would be passing the jaunts off as altruism.For as much as both charities and their licensed holidaymakers insist that the ethics of free holidays are an irrelevance, considering the sums they raise for good causes, their determined misrepresentation of these trips as 'challenges' only betrays an acute sensitivity about the arrangement. Why are extreme heights, extreme dust, extreme temperatures routinely involved So that even the participants won't realise that the trips are as polluting and as spurious as any old trek, though more morally offensive, given the routine abuse of donors' generosity. With the charities' blessing, they are persuaded to plough half their gift into tourism.Committed, as royals, to a lifetime's sponsorship, it was no surprise to see William and Harry balancing, in exemplary style, both their charitable commitment and the challenging, yet bonding aspects of yet another futile charity trip. 'We never get to spend any time together,' added the littler of the young princes. So tragically that, for once, you wondered what was wrong with Boujis.Adventure travelCharitable givingMonarchyInternational aid and developmentguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
2008-10-26 12:12:22Toffees bite into United at Goodison
By Rob HarrisLondonOct. 25: Everton held Manchester United to a 1-1 draw on Saturday in another setback for the defending champions as they try to catch the Premier League leaders.The Red Devils were cruising after Darren Fletcher scored in the 22nd minute, but Marouane Fellaini leveled in the 63rd. United are five points adrift of Chelsea and Liverpool, who play each other Sunday and are level on 20 points atop the standings.Also on Saturday, Sunderland beat Newcastle 2-1 in the northeast derby, which saw Joey Barton return for the Magpies after serving a six-match ban for attacking a teammate during his Manchester City career. Newcastle fans threw objects at Barton, forcing police to intervene, before the midfielder was brought on in the 85th.United looked headed for their seventh consecutive victory in all competitions after Fletcher controlled a pass from Ryan Giggs, rounded Joleon Lescott and shot through goalkeeper Tim Howard’s legs.Nemanja Vidic could have extended the lead but his shot was cleared off the line by Leon Osman and Howard then denied both Cristiano Ronaldo and Ryan Giggs.Everton were lucky to have conceded just one goal in the first half and the Toffees found their way back into the match when Fellaini rose above Vidic to head a cross from former United defender Phil Neville past goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar.Wayne Rooney, who scored his first career goal for Everton in 2002, missed chances to score his 100th against his former club. Tempers flared after the break when United center back Rio Ferdinand confronted former teammate Phil Neville after his strong challenge on Ronaldo. "I don’t think the referee protected our players enough," manager Alex Ferguson said. "I don’t know what the game is coming to with some of the tackles and the speed of the tackles."Rooney was substituted in the 72nd after being booked for a late tackle on Mikel Arteta, unjustly according to Ferguson.Ronaldo, still struggling to regain his form after undergoing ankle surgery, squandered a chance to restore United’s lead in the 87th when the winger turned Nani’s cross wide.At the Stadium of Light, Kieran Richardson ended Sunderland’s 28-year wait for a home win over Newcastle with a 75th-minute free kick. Sunderland went ahead in the 20th when Djibril Cisse lunged with his right foot to steer in Steed Malbranque’s misdircted shot.But the lead only lasted 10 minutes as Newcastle striker Shola Ameobi, unmarked at the far post, leapt to head in Geremi’s free kick."We deserved it and played some good stuff," Sunderland manager Roy Keane said. "Sunderland could face repercussions after its fans came onto the pitch to celebrate the victory. "Hopefully it won’t take away from what the players have achieved today," Keane said. "But it’s been a while since they’ve been celebrating and they’ve got to be allowed to enjoy these things." — APÂÂ
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