Posted By Hayley McBride
Hi folks,

The company I work is a charity. They are raising money this year from employees being sponsered to run a marathon. I have been asked to write a disclaimer for all participants. My knowledge is disclaimers aren't really worth the paper they are written legally. I was wondering would this be the same where the employer will benefit financially?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hayley

Posted By Hayley McBride
The employees are running the marathon entirely voluntarily but are collecting sponsership money for the organisation.

Posted By CFT
As Raymond states, do not bother with the disclaimer. This is something that takes place almost daily across the country in one various guise or another for charities and other organisations, so don't panic.

What you can do is produce a fact sheet for the individuals to complete and get them to acknowledge the requirements; these need only be quite basic; health, do's, donts, weather conditions, footwear, what is to be provided, who to pay sponsorship money to and so on and so forth, restrict it to general terminology as opposed to "you must wear such and such shoes" just say 'suitable' .

I have run, cycled, walked backwards, sat in a wheelbarrow all for charitable causes and have always had to fill in the basic form which is soooo simple, it's just not a disclaimer though.

Good luck

CFT