A Very Personal Account Of Adventure Funding Pains
BAREFOOT runner Aleks Kashefi has sent us this very personal account of the adventure funding pains that have been eased by his PledgeSports.org campaign backers. The 37-year-old teacher wants to raise over £50,000 for Stroke Association, UK Mountain Rescue and Thomas Thyer Foundation by running the 4,750m E1 Euro Trail from Norway to Sicily, barefoot […]
11th April 2016 read full articlePledgeSports among nominees for Sport Industry Awards
IT’S awards season and we’re delighted to announce that, hot on the heels of our World Summit Award, PledgeSports.org is among the nominees for the Irish Sport Industry Awards. These awards have been set up this year by the Federation of Irish Sport to recognise excellence in the thriving Irish Sport Industry. The 12 award categories […]
29th October 2015 read full articleI Can Focus On World Championships Thanks To Crowdfunding
Sports crowdfunding answer to Deary’s training funding woes TRIATHLETE Emma Deary recently raised nearly £4,000 to fund her training and travel costs for the World Triathlon Championships in Chicago and next year’s European Triathlon Championships in Lisbon. The Bishop’s Stortford athlete did this through sports crowdfunding with Pledge Sports and, in her thank you message […]
24th August 2015 read full articleAthlete gains top sports sponsor after PledgeSports campaign
Sports sponsor signs athlete after Pledge Sports sponsorship campaign IRELAND international triathlete Kevin Thornton, who funded most of last season via PledgeSports, has gained a new sports sponsor. The athlete is set to be sponsored by warm-weather training camp Tenerife Top Training this term. Thornton’s 2014 was hampered by injuries, but he finished on a […]
14th January 2015 read full article