A great idea
June 29th, 2012 at 8:51 am by David FarrarThe Press reports:
Why pay to party? If you want tickets to The Concert, you’re going to have to work for it.
The Concert is a live music event to be held at AMI Stadium on November 3.
Only 10,000 tickets are available and you can’t buy a ticket.
To get a ticket you have to do more than four hours of volunteer work in the community.
The event is co-ordinated by Student Volunteer Army head Sam Johnson who said yesterday that a team of five are working on the project full-time.
”As well as that core group, there is also the student volunteer committee and a team of 50 ambassadors that are taking the volunteering message into schools. They are an amazing group. It takes a lot of effort to put on a concert and we’re all working together to make it happen.”
He said The Concert is about people making a difference in their community, then celebrating at the concert.
Ideas for volunteering are unlimited, he said, and could involve everything from singing songs in a rest home to helping out sports groups.
”We will announce the line-up in mid July,” Johnson said.
”People just need to register their volunteer project on our website, the concert.co.nz or on our Facebook page. Four hours is the minimum you can do to get a ticket.”
The event is R15 with R18 areas and is sponsored by Skinny, a separate division of Telecom.
That’s a smart way to promote and reward volunteers.
June 29th, 2012 at 8:54 am
Gold. Sam Johnston is a terrific guy and a true treasure for our country.
Vote:June 29th, 2012 at 9:00 am
I guess Mallard won’t be selling any of these tickets on Trademe.
Vote:June 29th, 2012 at 9:02 am
Hear hear, George.
Vote:June 29th, 2012 at 9:43 am
Eric Crampton will be impressed. He posted just the other day on how charity runs and the like are pointless – they don’t encourage long term giving (http://offsettingbehaviour.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/showing-you-care-charity-run-edition.html). This is the opposite – dragging people in to volunteering in a way that means a number of them will probably develop a habit. Great stuff.
Vote:June 29th, 2012 at 11:09 am
Give and get.
Great.
Vote:June 29th, 2012 at 11:28 am
Fantastic idea. I’m sure it will be very effective.
Vote:It will be very interesting to see what Sam Johnson does post university. He clearly is a natural leader / doer and creative in his thinking
June 29th, 2012 at 12:15 pm
This kid Sam is really misguided !
Rewards for charity work ? What ever happened to being ‘pure of heart’ and ‘kindness’ ?
This Sam Johnson is obviously not a Christian. Probably an atheist.
Vote:June 29th, 2012 at 1:35 pm
This Sam Johnson is obviously not a Christian. Probably an atheist.
I don’t know if you’re joking or not Harriet, but what has that got to do with it?
Vote:June 29th, 2012 at 2:08 pm
PG #
If he was a Christian, then he would hardly be announcing ” IF you do charity work you are THEN allowed to attend THIS concert “.
No one should expect to be rewarded for an act of charity, and all Christians know this, actually, most people who arn’t christians know that – as it DEFEATS the purpose. It’s commonsense.
Charity is charity – nothing more nothing less.
Now that I think about it PG – this Sam bloke is a complete idiot – as most young people would now expect to be rewarded in the future for acts of charity.
Cheers PG.
Vote:June 29th, 2012 at 2:14 pm
Harriet, I suspect you are out of step with how a lot of people will see this initiative, I think most will see it as “a great idea”, including many Christians.
It’s just a bit of a step up for giving someone a cup of tea for doing a good charitable job.
It might even encourage more people to do more charitable work, without always expecting a concert in return. And some may do the work without doing the concert.
Your opposition seems to be a bit uncharitable.
Vote:June 29th, 2012 at 5:07 pm
10K tickets at 4 hrs each at a value of the work of say $25/hr (for ease of computation) is a clean $mil of work for charities.
Good man Sam.
and Harriet? I think your being a dick. But to each their own I supppose.
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