"In similar and larger scale charity events, it often appears that the particpants tend to do what they enjoy, get the publicity and most of the credit for all the money raised when actually not parting with a penny of their own."

I often think, with charity fundraisers, that I'd rather just make a donation to the cause than give up the dozens of hours orgaising the damn thing takes - if all the organisers and participants just made the same donation, the charity would probably benefit from as much as it would receive from the event.

How come, Shambles, when you want to get in somewhere free, your time is valuable, your performance worth in excess of the normal admission price and you think it would be wrong to have to pay - yet you shift your point of view when it suits you