Posted by Andrew on 2/8/2013, 8:28 am, in reply to "fundraising for ukpt"

Hi Mark What a fantastic thing to do for the UKPT. Well done. Out of interest, given your understandable reluctance to challenge those colleagues, how did you put the UKPT forward to the company for this fundraising? Was it anonymously? As Pete said, lack of understanding is to be expected. It may help to imagine it had been for a charity that supports people who have a phobia about injections, or a fear of spiders that prevents them entering a room until someone checks it out for them. I think you would have the same level of comment from the same few guys. So what I am getting at is that it is not a reaction to paruresis itself, but a reaction to something they feel is trivial: they are not able to comprehend the consequences. Changing to Pete's mention of everyone chipping in a little: it struck me that thinking in terms of a pint a month, or a pint a week, or a round of drinks a month, or even one round a week: across over 400 ex-participants, that would raise the sort of money that would allow us to get part-time help in moving things forward, rather than depending on me: I am not eternal! Again thank you Mark and well done indeed Andrew

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