Raising money for charity - Full Blast Plus 4 module2

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There are thousands of ____________________ and non - profit organisations around the world that help those in need . Competition is ____________________ and they have to think of ____________________ ways to raise money . A popular trend recently has been for charities to ____________________ the help of members of society who do all sorts of weird and wonderful activities to raise money on their ____________________ . People are prepared to do unusual and even extreme things for this ____________________ .
David Hunt , who is a firefighter , did something of the kind in 2010 . He spent 48 hours without any food ____________________ in a glass box which was hanging 30 feet in the air from a ____________________ above central London . His ____________________ challenge was certainly not easy , but it successfully ____________________ a lot of attention . With a little help from another firefighter who was on the ground , they managed to ____________________ the public to support their cause by making ____________________ that added up to over five thousand pounds . Their chosen charities were The Fire Fighters Charity and Cancer Research UK .
It is not just the young who have gone up high to ____________________ money for charity . In 2009 , Kay Matthews , who was 90 at the time , went to Norfolk , UK , to ____________________ from a plane 13 , 000 feet above the ____________________ for a war - victims charity . She ____________________ about £3000 . Few people are brave enough to go ____________________ , let ____________________ an elderly woman , but she loved every minute of it .

Others ____________________ to stay firmly on the ground , but still no further away from ____________________ , like Nick Le Souef , a 67 - year - old businessman who lives in Melbourne , Australia . In 2010 , he ____________________ to spend 3 weeks living in a shop window with 400 ____________________ spiders to raise money for a children's charity . The real - life spiderman wasn't at all nervous as he slept ____________________ his eight - legged friends , and survived the experience ____________________ , raising fifty thousand dollars . The spiders , ____________________ , weren't so lucky , as by the end of the challenge , a few of them had started eating each other .
Raising money for charity is also popular ____________________ students . Alison Bishop , from Middleton School in Peterborough , UK , decided to do her ____________________ for charity by doing a sponsored silence in March 2011 . She ____________________ a whole school day without saying a word . She ____________________ to write things down in class and she ____________________ a sign saying 'Please don't speak to me , I'm doing a sponsored silence for the National Deaf Children's Association . ' It was ____________________ difficult but she ____________________ to raise £874 .