Have a look at this little mention of the £50 Quid Danger Fund in The Times. It makes me sound like a slightly unhinged circus clown, but still it’s nice to get a nod.

For the record I am not trying to ‘change the world, with a giggle’, and please do not send me any ‘wacky’ ideas. But (seriously) thanks for the mention Francesca.

Donate to danger

Got a wacky idea, but need a few bob to execute it? Well, there’s now a charity out there to help you. The £50 Danger Fund aims to change the world, with a giggle. Funded by donations, so far it has only received £50 — from someone who then claimed it back for a personal project. “Exactly the sort of needlessly dangerous behaviour that we like!” says the site’s undaunted creator, Peter Hames.

Posted by Francesca Steele

The Danger Fund has been in business for a little over a month. And it’s going pretty darned well I’d say. We’ve received schemes for MC Hammer-related tomfoolery, big penis mischief and troublemaking through the medium of bike security, plus many more. Danke for all of your ideas large and small; the response has been such that we’re going to do an early round of funding to get a few going now. Largely because I can’t wait to (possibly) see a huge cock drawn around the Daily Mail offices.

So it’s probably a good time to give you an update on money, and prove that this is not an elaborate (and rather idiotic) money-making scam. Here is the state of the Danger Fund account:

Total assets: £196.97

Donations to PayPal:

Peter Hames —> £1 (to test it)

Matthew Knight —> £50

Ben Harris —> £50

PayPal charges —> -£4.03 (£4.03!)

Total cash on PayPal —> £96.97

Cheques:

Peter Hames —> £50

Michael-George Hemus —> £50

Total cash in the bank —> £100.00

Matthew, MGH and Ben - big kisses all round.

So if I top it up to £200 we can do four ideas. I will be imminently sending all of the ideas so far to our Selectors and getting them to do what they do best, select.

Let the danger commence!

A scheme at once satisfyingly promotional and very literally ‘danger’-ous from Andy ‘The Danger’ Moore. I’ve said it before but I cannot wait to see whichever of you get the money actually acting out your mischievous plots! I’m going to have an earlier-than-planned funding round to get a few going, but more on that later. For now, Mister Andrew’s wonky brainwave…

Dear Danger fund I’d like to apply for £50 to change my name by deed poll to “Danger Fund”. There seems to be lots of different companies claiming to be able to do this officially, with prices ranging from about £23 to around £7.50. Obviously I’d use the one charging £7.50, because I want to be dangerous by name and by nature. I’d then use the remaining £42.50 to hire out Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards (the most dangerous Olympian in history) to help promote my new identity around the streets of London. If “The Eagle” comes in under budget, I’d use any remaining money to flag down an illegal cab, so me and Edwards could lean out of the windows (dangerous even in a legal taxi) and shout out my new name.