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Name: Lisa Connell

Location: City/Town: London, UK

Birthday:: April 11, 1979

Occupation: Current Company: Director of Rent A Date For Charity

More Info About Me:: To whom it may concern,

I am writing to you in the hope that you may be able to help me with my campaign for Brain Tumour awareness through Rent a Date for Charity, a new organisation working in association with Brain Tumour Charities throughout the UK & Worldwide.

Rent a Date for Charity has been set up by me, Lisa Connell after I was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour in August 2006 at just 27 years of age. Since my diagnosis I has been working tirelessly to raise funds for and awareness of Brain Tumour Charities. In July 2007 I participated in a 10k run raising over £3000 having been told six months previously that I would never walk again.

I decided that raising money this way was not enough and wanted to create a way of fundraising that would create maximum exposure for the charities and be a lasting legacy. The result of this is Rent a Date for Charity and through this site I have managed to raise over £12,000.

Rent a Date for Charity is a website which people join to be members as either a bidder or a candidate up for auction. The person that bids the highest on a date candidate wins that date. Rent a Date for Charity then donates all the profits to the designated charities each year. Those profits then go towards research supported by brain tumour charities and awareness campaigns organised by Rent a Date for Charity

My drive for the site will be the Celebrity Date Auctions whereby 75% of the Net auction proceeds will go directly to the designated charities. Since launching the site the response has been huge with local and national media already covering my story. Below is a list of the media coverage so far:

TV & Radio
Brain Tumour UK Awareness DVD, London Tonight, LK Today, BBC Radio Bristol, LBC Radio, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Somerset

Newspapers & Magazines

The Sun, Look Magazine, All Issues of the Times Group, Enfield independent, Ham & High – Repeat Coverage, LK Today, Bath Chronicle – 2 Publications, ELLE Magazine, Camden Gazette, Woman, Limited Edition & Weekly News.

To see details of these please visit: http://www.rentadateforcharityblog.typepad.com/

To raise even more money for Brain Tumour Charities, I am keen to arrange for a number of celebrities to get involved and auction a date or a an experience through the site. The website was officially launched in October 2007 and after three impressive months we closed for Christmas and re-launched again in January 2008 with a whole new brand. So far the Celebrity Dates have been as follows:

Celebrity Dates

Model Sophie Anderton
Actor Jimmi Harkishin (AKA Dev from Coronation Street)
TV Presenter Gary McCausland (Channel Five’s How to be a Property Developer)
TV Presenter and Model Donatella Panayiotou (as seen on Young Posh & Loaded)
Cheryl Baker (Bucks Fizz)
Big Brother Five’s Contestant & Model - Orlaith McAllister
Tim Shieff AKA Livewire – Urban Freeflow Running Team
Actress & Comedienne - Petra Massey

Celebrities Currently up for Auction Include:

Actor (Just recently in Sweeny Todd), Presenter, Voiceover & Extra – Nick Thomas Webster
Dating Coach, Arthur, Broadcaster & Psychologist – Jo Hemmings
Magician - Aladin

Coming Soon

Alice Von Simson - London Lite's Dating Columnist
Susan Bookbinder - TV & Radio Broadcaster

If you require any further information or would like to get to discuss any PR, Marketing, Events or Advertising issues please use the contact details below.

Many thanks in advance for your support for this fantastic awareness campaign, with your help we will be able to arrange a substantial amount of money for Brain Tumour Charities throughout the UK & Worldwide helping the thousands of people like myself who are affected every year.

OTHER CHARITIES

Rent A Date For Charity are now welcoming all other non brain tumour related charities to the auctions. These charities will benefit from the Celebrity Date auctions only, as the site was primarily set up as a brain tumour awareness campaign. If you would like to nominate a charity of your choice to receive these benefits please contact us for further information. admin@rentadateforcharity.com
I look forward to hearing from you further.

Kind regards,

Miss L. Connell

Lisa Connell - Director
Rent a Date for Charity Limited

Office: 020 8368 0486
Mobile: 07903 238 823
Email: lisaconnell@rentadateforcharity.com
Website: www.rentadateforcharity.com

Status: not telling

Gender:: Female

My fave Websites:: www.RentADateForCharity.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rent-a-Date-for-Charity/6863932626
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At 10:42am on June 19th, 2008, JonClarke said…: Might be well worth looking at the PR Starz group page, I've been adding lots of free online PR services there - might come invaluable to get your story and website out to a wider audience still. PRweb you have to pay for but is the biggest, but PRlog, and Pressbox are good also, plus the others

At 10:24am on June 19th, 2008, JonClarke said…: Hi Lisa, just bumped the line about supporting your charity up to the top of the home page and added direct link to one of te videos. If there is anything else I can do let me know.

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