[Vocabulary] COllection

[Will17]

Hello!

If I say that yesterday I organised a "money collection based on challenges", do you understand what I'm talking about?

Thank you
Will

 

[bhaisahab]

Hello!

If I say that yesterday I organised a "money collection based on challenges", do you understand what I'm talking about?

Thank you
Will

No, sorry.

 

[Will17]

No, sorry.

Thank you. I'll explain what it was about:

Yesterday I asked some people to take some challenges up.

And I asked (some?) other people to give money if the challenges were a success.

What you do call that? (In French we say "Quête au défi).

Thank you
Will

 

[freezeframe]

What kind of challenges?

 

[bhaisahab]

Thank you. I'll explain what it was about:

Yesterday I asked some people to take some challenges up.

And I asked (some?) other people to give money if the challenges were a success.

What you do call that? (In French we say "Quête au défi).

Thank you
Will

Is this to raise money for charity?

 

[Will17]

Is this to raise money for charity?

Yes, indeed.

 

[SoothingDave]

Are you talking about "bar bets"? Like "Hey, I bet you $5 I can put 6 hard boiled eggs in my mouth."

What kind of challenges are you talking about?

 

[bhaisahab]

Yes, indeed.

"Sponsored tasks/challenges" is what you mean, I think. People take part in a challenge, run a half-marathon, for example, and other people sponsor them with money.

 

[freezeframe]

"Sponsored tasks/challenges" is what you mean I think. People take part in a challenge, run a half-marathon, for example, and other people sponsor them with money.

Wouldn't a sponsor give money whether they were successful or not? There is a buzzword "charity challenge"... but I hate buzzwords. :-(