For decades, they have put themselves out to support worthy causes and done it in some wonderful ways – from playing the ukulele to long-distance walks and even selling sausages.
Here is just a small selection of photos of brilliant fundraisers from the Hartlepool Mail archives. Are you pictured? Are you planning a fundraising event with a difference? We want to hear from you.
In the meantime, enjoy our retro photo selection.
1. A string of great memories
Hartlepool Ukulele Group played in the foyer of Tesco to raise cash for Marie Curie cancer care in 2013. Remember it? Photo: TY
2. Tuck in to these 2005 memories
Who remembers this event from 16 years ago, when Jedediah Headbanger raised cash to support a cancer cause by selling pink sausages? Photo: DP
3. Handcuffed in 2007!
Who can tell us more about this 2007 fundraiser which featured Julie Hansford from the Goldmine pub, Maureen Stallard and Susan Crannage from the Seaton Lane Home And Away Club, PC Mark Walton and Damon Millar from Butterwick Children's Hospice? Photo: LH
4. Moseying on back to 2006
A Western auction in Peterlee was pictured in 2006. But who can tell us more about the event? Photo: DP