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^ I'm not anti charity (I work for one!) but am against some of the fund-raising methods used these days.
Charity has become Big Business and marketing /media messages have conditioned the public to think that we shouldn't do anything "unusual" without hanging a fundraising bucket on the back of it (edit - and as GL mentions above, it makes it easier to justify doing that unusual activity).
This makes promoting an activity such as Cycling harder as many non cyclists can see a bike ride as "an exceptional event, to raise funds for charity" rather than a way of getting around, having fun, and staying fit and healthy.