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Chocs away for new charity fundraising craze!

This news post is almost 9 years old
 

​You've got to be mint it to win it - new charity fundraising craze for the Marina Dalglish Appeal

It’s chocs away for the latest charity fundraising craze.

People have been going forehead to forehead in the After Eight challenge – and this week celebs Vernon Kay and Mel C got involved (see Vernon's effort below).

Now in its second year, the challenge has been raising money for Celtic and Scotland legend Kenny Dalglish's wife's cancer charity The Marina Dalglish Appeal (Marina and Kenny are pictured above).

So how do you play the game? Form two teams and line up with a box of After Eight mints – the first person in each team pops one on their forehead and has to manoeuvre it down to their mouth without using their hands, as soon as they get it in their mouth the next person can start, and so on and so forth until the team have completed and are crowned the winner!

Key can be seen completing the challenge in 24 seconds and three attempts (nowhere near Kenny's time of 5.44 seconds!) whilst Wasps RFC Squad Face Race came in at 50 seconds.

But beating them all this year is Stereo Kicks' Jake Sims who manoeuvred the mint in just one second!

This year's Face Race has been developed so teams of people at parties and Christmas dinners can challenge each other, play together and raise money for a good cause this festive season.

The 2014 After Eight Challenge spread like wildfire, and subsequently saw the likes of Taylor Swift, Jack Whitehall, Freddie Flintoff and even the Scotland International Football team getting involved to raise money for the charity.

Dalglish said: "The After Eight Challenge is a great after dinner game, especially during the festive season. We want to get even more people involved this year and encourage them to donate to the Marina Dalglish Appeal and support a great cause."

To make a donation to the Marina Dalglish Appeal click here.

 

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Graham Lumb
almost 9 years ago
Perhaps TFN needs to think carefully about promoting a so-called 'craze' which is, in effect, providing free publicity and an increase in sales for a company with an extremely dubious moral and ethical record, namely, Nestle, the manufacturer of After Eights. Notwithstanding their appalling record over 30 years or more of aggressive promotion of their baby milk products in third world countries, this year their CEO went on record to inform us that access to water is not a public right! http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-privatisation-of-water-nestle-denies-that-water-is-a-fundamental-human-right/5332238 I am always keen to support imaginative and creative approaches to fundraising.....but definitely not this one. Perhaps TFN could give some space in future a future edition to highlight the work of some of the charities who are endeavouring to mitigate the effects of Nestlé's dubious and immoral practices.
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