Tickled Pink Fundraising Events
Tickled Pink Fundraising Events Hi.
Just on here asking for some ideas. As you may all be aware, ASDA Stores Ltd have been supporting the “Tickled Pink” campaign for 9 years with this year being the 10TH.
Asda are opening a new LIVING store on September 15th at Crown Point Retail Park in Leeds, West Yorkshire, and I have been asked to organise events to raise money in store for the campaign.
I have taken part in a number of fund raising activities over the past 6 years since I have been an ASDA Colleague for Tickled Pink and I am running out of ideas.
I have been involved with 24 hour sleep in’s , 24 hour bike ride, bath in pink custard, legs waxed ( still got mental scars from that, why anyone would pay to have that done is beyond me, or is it a bloke being a wimp)
at the moment, all colleagues in the store will be wearing Pink for the week and making a donation.
We are also considering the folllowing:
Quiz,
Face Painting for kids
I do need more ideas though which will last all week, because we want to Raise as Much Money as we can, but do not really want to do events we have done before.
Hoping you can all come up with ideas
regards
Shaun
Moving this post Hi Shaun
I am going to move this post to chit chat your fundraising ideas and events which is where we put all the posts of fundraising.
Best wishes
Moderator
Breast Cancer Care
WELL DONE ADSA Hi Shaun
Haveing been a Colleague of Asda’s for 20 years in the Warrington store I was very pleased to see this posting as this site has been my lifeline for the past 12 months.
Last year my store was very involved with the Tickled Pink Campaign and raised a lot of money.
Anyway what about a HEAD SHAVE or 2.sorry did mine last year now it’s grown back I am hanging on to it (You can have my wig though and raffle it if you want never been used)
Get in touch with the Warrington Store (cockheadge) if I can help in any way I will.
GOOD LUCK
Janet S
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Idea’s for Tickled Pink Hi Shaun - I am David, one of the few men who have had breast cancer and use this site.
Can I say first of all - thank you to ASDA for everything they do for Breast Cancer Care, this year they have even interviewed me for the Staff and instore magazine - should be interesting reading !!!
Did you know men could get BC?
Anyway back to the idea’s for your fundraising, have you thought of
Store Olympics
Car washing - get your car washed while you shop
Pink Gunge baths
Fed up of wearing Pink fines - fine people for moaning
All the best and I hope all goes well for you.
David W
BRAS Hi Shaun
Janet again can you please tell ASDA to get the range of MASTECTOMY BRAS in every store !!!
Thanks
BRAS AGAIN!! could you also tell ASDA to get a PRETTY range of NON-WIRED bras,
please
Thank you
ASDA ASDA is a multi national company with huge profits and a reputation for being anti union.
I know I am not alone in finding ‘tickled pink’ events utterly insulting and trivialising. If ASDA wants to support people with breast cancer then give just a tiny proportion of those profits to cancer charities, and stop exploting workers (who ae affected by breast cancer just as much as any other scetion of the population.)
Jane
Well said Jane. Asda’s cynicism in undertaking this bit of self-publicity beggars belief.
Sincet the late 90s Asda has been owned by Wal-Mart, the largest retail corporation in the world notorious for its policies towards, local communities, and its suppliers in developing countries, with a reputation for being ruthlessly anti-union
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Asda insists that it respects its employees’ right to join a union - a right that is protected by the law. But there is increasing evidence that the opposite is the case.
In August 2002, Asda sparked a banana retail price war with lasting effects on the banana industry and banana workers worldwide.
Asda’s exclusive deal with Del Monte, contracted at what industry experts describe as a ‘ridiculously low price’, means that it is supplied with bananas produced under the worst labour and environmental conditions in the world.
In March 2006 Asda slashed its already low-priced bananas by another 25%. This has alarmed banana workers, who fear it will have a devastating impact on communities in West Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
War on Want says ‘Wal-Mart has built a global empire of supermarket stores on an image of ‘always low prices’. This obsession with prices has led to poverty wages, ever-worsening sweatshop conditions and the destruction of local businesses and communities. These policies are well known but now new evidence has emerged on how Asda senior management are planning to deliberately “chip away at workers’ rights and working conditions in the UK.’
I don’t want them collecting on my behalf. In 2005 Wal-Mart’s turnover topped 300 billion; as Jane says, a tiny proportion of that donated to cancer charities would make a huge difference and it would spare workers having to dress in pink and and take part in these insulting events
l believe that Asda has raised about £8m for Breast Cancer Care over about 8 years - which is a superb achievement.
However, as Jane and Louise say, why don’t Asda just donate a proportion of their profits to cancer charities. The pink, party atmosphere drummed up by Asda is great publicity for them, but trivialises breast cancer and I find it rather distasteful.
Last October I phoned my local Asda to ask what percentage of Tickled Pink sales went to the cancer charities. Their management was unable to tell me - that says it all really.
The most efficient way to donate to charities is to pay them direct and gift aid it, but for some reason, we live in a society where it seems to be regarded as more acceptable to do sponsored stuff to raise money or buy goods from companies like Asda where a bit from each sale goes to the charities.
My issue is not with Asda employees, some of whom will have personal experience of breast cancer and many of whom genuinely wish to help the cause. My issue is with the cynical actions of the people that run Wal-mart - actions that have caught the attention of film makers
MASTECTOMY BRAS Hi.
I’ve been inquiring about your request, and have found out that ASDA have on order MASTECTOMY BRAS, which should be in stock for the end of August, begininning of September. I have asked someone at ASDA House on whether they will be stocking them all year round, and will let you know when I have some news.
regards
Shaun
Tickled Pink Hi,
Thanks for your replies so far. Just to let you know, all Charity work done by ASDA Colleagues is purely VOLUNTRY. There is no pressure put on any colleagues to take part.
I left ASDA last year to join another supermarket chain and left after 4 months to return to ASDA, because of the treatment the colleagues recieve . As for treatment ASDA colleagues recieve, it is all 1st class, even more so cause at least twice a year they have a WE’RE LISTENING survey, where they ask all ASDA colleagues there view on working for the company.
As for ASDA hogging the limelight of Tickled Pink, ASDA’s role is make people aware of Breast Cancer, NOT to make profits from it. I know, that today, ASDA was supporting the EVERYMAN campaign, plus also raises money for local charities around the country which they DO NOT SEEK PUBLICITY FOR, including local schools and local charity’s.
regards
Shaun
ps. I already have a No.2 haircut so a headshave will not make much difference.
Hello Shaun, not your fault of course but I wonder if Asda realise calling their campaign Tickled Pink upsets many (not all) of us.
I will die from breast cancer and I’m in my 40’s. I have lost many friends I got to know through having this disease, many young women in their 30’s.
‘Tickled Pink’ just seems so inappropriate.
Good Luck with your fundraising I’m just hoping next year Asda will come up with a different name for their campaign.
Very Best Wishes.
Message for Shaun I appreciate the voluntary work that ASDA colleagues put into raising awareness and money for breast cancer charities. I’m sure the money raised makes a huge difference to the work of Breast Cancer Care.
But can you answer my question which my local ASDA either would not or could not answer. How many pence in every pound of sales of Tickled Pink items goes to breast cancer charities?
Unless the answer is 100%, ASDA IS making profits out of breast cancer.
Also I’ve got another question - what is the annual revenue generated by the sale of Tickled Pink goods?
As for the name “Tickled Pink”, I agree with Belinda’s comments. Who on earth decided that “Tickled Pink” is an appropriate name for a campaign to raise awareness and funds for a killer disease? Time for a change of name.
Can you please stay on topic in this thread Hi all
Shaun started this thread to ask for fundraising ideas. It seems to have drifted way off topic here. Can you please stick to the topic in this particular thread.
Best wishes
Moderator
Breast Cancer Care
Dear moderator The issues which some of us are raising here are all very relevant. Some of us with breast cancer find ‘tickled pink’ fundraising events distasteful at best and exploitative at worst.
These are crucial political issues and should be debated…if not on a current issues/hot topics board then where?
Jane
Moderator the title of this particular forum is ‘Current issues/hot topics’. You must expect debate - otherwise why not name it ‘Non-controversial issues/bland discussion’.
I disagree that this thread has gone off topic. We have been asked for suggestions for raising funds to fight the dreadful disease we all live with. We are entitled to raise questions about where the money goes and the behaviour of the company running the fund raising campaign… I find your intervention very patronizing.
Daphne I agree £8m in 8 years is a fantastic achievement by Asda workers; to their employer, it is loose change…
Dear Moderator,
you said shortly after this thread was started that you were going to move this thread to Chit-Chat and fun. This hasn’t happened so, not surprisingly, a discussion has developed about the Tickled Pink Campaign, looking at both the positive - raising much needed funds for Breast Cancer Care, and the negative - the name of the campaign and the question of how much money from selling Tickled Pink goods goes direct to ASDA’s bottom line to keep Wall Street and Wal-Mart’s US shareholders happy.
The purpose of the Hot Topics/Current Issues is “you would like to discuss current issues relating to breast cancer” and this is what we are doing. We should be able to discuss the tone of the campaign and ask where all the money raised goes without being moderated. We, the people who have had the disease, are stakeholders and have a right to ask questions about campaigns which ask for our support and that of our families and friends.
I can probably partly answer my own question about what percentage of sales of Tickled Pink goods goes to the charities as I’ve had a look at various bits of info on the Web, including
asdacares.gpalm.co.uk/tickledpink06/
The answer is that it varies. For wristbands 70p in every £ is going to the charities. In 2004 ASDA had a selection of Tickled Pink goods where they claim that all profits went to the charities. They are currently selling trinkets where 60p in every £ goes to charity. In September, they are launching their full Tickled Pink range - the website doesn’t say how many pence in each £ is going to the charities for these goods.
Tickled Pink is a euphemism for “very pleased”. Why that is regarded as an acceptable name for a campaign to raise awareness and funds for cancer, I have no idea.
There’s no doubt that the ASDA and Breast Cancer Care have worked together to raise funds to great effect and well done to all concerned, but that doesn’t mean that questions about where all the money goes should be swept under the carpet. And there’s also the question of how ASDA sources the Tickled Pink goods - does it buy them in through Fair Trade means or do they come from third world sweat shops.
Moderator, i don’t see how Daphne’s post was so so far off topic - It is about the Tickled Pink campaign that Shaun has brought up - i’m sure that if Shaun dodesn’t know the answer he’ll say so. He’s a ‘grown up’ after all, so i daresay he can see that its a question relating to the ASDA Tickled Pink campaign, rather than anything ‘personal’.
And I find it a fair and interesting question. We give to these charities, but its amazing how little the charities actually receive sometimes. Shaun is doing good work, and I wish him well with it (I’m sadly lacking imagination this morning when it comes to ideas - sorry Shaun!)
(The name - the only one that the PR people could come up with that includes ‘pink’, and no-one has bothered to think whether its appropriate or not!!)
If we carry on down this route, moderator, you will have to step in all the time. What about the posts where someone asks a question about, say, lyphodemia, and then someone replies to ask how the questioners op went - you’ll have to tell the person asking about the op that they must not do so as its ‘off topic’! Absurd?