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  • #holidaysforgood - Help Refugees - Can we hit £50,000?

    An update for Help Refugees - #holidaysforgood - shelter campaign

    Apr 27 2016

    UPDATE: Can we hit £50,000? 

    Wow! Thank you so much for the donations that have been rolling in thick and fast. 

    Our original target was to raise over £25,000 and so create shelter for over 170 people. In less than two weeks we exceeded this initial goal and increased the target to £35,000 - enough to create 60 shelters and help 240 people. Now, only seven days later, we have met that target as well and have been completely blown away by the response to this campaign. 

    The question now is, can we hit £50,000 and help 345 people?

    There are 27 days left to go, please keep donating, sharing and pushing this campaign. 

  • My conversations with Help4Heroes

    An update for The Imperial Plan by The Fable

    Apr 23 2016

    Hi pledgers,

    I just wanted to update you on the project. There are still 18 days left. Pledges have stalled this week for some reason but I have put a lot of effort in today to try to kindle more interest.

    For a while now I have been planning to talk to Help4Heroes to ask for their help in promoting my finished album. In return I would give some of the profits to the charity. This week I decided to bring that discussion forward and have started to talk to them about it. It is my intent to donate at least 50% of any profits the album makes to relevant charities - especially if they help me to promote it.

    Perhaps by starting to promote it now they can help me find more backers, finish the project sooner and at the same time It will all get a little more publicity.

    In addition to Help4Heroes I have also been posting the links onto various Poppy Appeal Facebook pages and the main Royal British Legion page. If anyone can think of other ways I might be able to get the word out I would be grateful for your advice.

    You can email me at mike@bmin.co.uk.

    Thank you once again for your pledge. I really appreciate it and have been in the studio working on the rest of the tracks knowing that your money is going to help me cover the cost.

    All the best,

    Mike

  • Off to a great start!

    An update for Support our debut feature film -- 7x7!

    Apr 18 2016

    Hi everyone,

    After the first 10 days of our campaign we are almost 20% funded -- WOW!! We are blown away by the support so far and thank everyone for their generous contributions.

    We've made some exciting progress in pre-production since we launched: locking a few shooting locations, interviewing cinematographers, meeting with the DGA about having union crew work on the film, sending offers out to actors and much, much more.

    Also, we confirmed our first TALENT to play the role of Marcy! We can't say who she is just yet, but she is a talented young rising star who you will definitely recognize from the big screen. We're so excited to have her on board!

    THANK YOU again for your support. If you have contributed to our campaign, please help us spread the word! Can you think of any friends or family who might be interested in our project and consider donating? Please reach out to them!

    Onward and upward!

    With love and gratitude,

    Liam, Katherine and Lindsay

  • #holidaysforgood - Help Refugees - NEW TARGET £35,000!

    An update for Help Refugees - #holidaysforgood - shelter campaign

    Apr 17 2016

    UPDATE: NEW TARGET OF £35,000

    Thank you so much for making a huge difference to those living in Dunkirk. In less than two weeks we've hit our original target of £25,000. Together we've raised enough to fund shelters for over 170 people.

    But with thousands of women, children, and young and old men living in totally inadequate tents and shelters, we must keep going. We can help so many more people.

    So we now have a new target of £35,000. We have 37 days to go, so let's all keep pushing this campaign.

    Please keep spreading the word!

    fundsurfer.com/holidaysforgood

    Thanks again.

    Tom

  • #holidaysforgood - Help Refugees - shelter fundraising campaign - £20k raised!

    An update for Help Refugees - #holidaysforgood - shelter campaign

    Apr 15 2016

    Well that was fast!

    I promise not to keep bombarding you with these updates, but since my last update yesterday afternoon, (to let you know we'd reached the £10k milestone), we've now doubled that! Incredible.

    Overnight we've raised a further £10k and are now sitting on a total of over £21k!

    £21k is enough for 36 shelters for 150 people... Thank you all so much.

    Keep spreading the word!

    fundsurfer.com/holidaysforgood

    Thanks again, we really appreciate your support.

    Tom

  • #holidaysforgood - Help Refugees - shelter fundraising campaign - £10k raised!

    An update for Help Refugees - #holidaysforgood - shelter campaign

    Apr 14 2016

    Wohoo! We just sent out a big newsletter to the Sawday's community and my inbox is crashing... We've now gone through £10k and the donations are flying in fast!

    Thanks again to everyone who's donated so far, we feel so proud to have your support.

    Please keep telling everyone about the fundraising campaign and why it's important.

    You've all already made such a difference to those living in Dunkirk, if you can help us to spread the word, we can help achieve even more.

    fundsurfer.com/holidaysforgood

    Thanks again, we really appreciate your support.

    Tom

  • Thank You !

    An update for TheGivingMachine - Be The Key

    Apr 14 2016

    Thanks  so much to people like  you, we have been able to complete and launch our first mobile app. on Monday this week.   Initially this is for Apple devices only but we want to support Andoind too in the future.

    Thanks again for being amazing.

    Richard

    The Shop&Give App is available from Apple's app store now :)

  • #holidaysforgood - Help Refugees - shelter fundraising - nearly 100 backers!

    An update for Help Refugees - #holidaysforgood - shelter campaign

    Apr 10 2016

    Thanks again to everyone who has supported the campaign and helped us to get off to an amazing start. We've now raised just under £9,000. That's enough to fund 15 shelters for over 60 people. 

    Let's all keep pushing and get more people supporting.

    We've got 97 backers - let's get to 100 and push on from there. Please help us by sharing with all your contacts.

    Backer 97 actually donated £580 (thank you again so much) - the cost of one shelter. Hopefully, we'll get a few more of those!

    You've all already made such a difference to those living in Dunkirk, if you can help us to spread the word, we can help achieve even more.

    fundsurfer.com/holidaysforgood

    Thanks again, we really appreciate your support.

    Tom

  • #holidaysforgood - Help Refugees - shelter fundraising - FRIDAY UPDATE

    An update for Help Refugees - #holidaysforgood - shelter campaign

    Apr 8 2016

    Hello, what an amazing first week. We're so very close to raising £8k! Thank you all so much.

    If you haven't done so already, please tell all our friends. We need to break the £8k mark...So please share the fundraising page with everyone you know.

    If you need any more of a reason WHY it's so important to help, then please watch this brilliant film by Jim Kroft.

    These words are from Jim about his film. So true.

    "A Kind of Game" - a quotation from my friend, maverick Italian journalist Claudio Gherardini. When I listen to Claudio's words, they sound out of context. They can't be true, can they? But when I walk through Idomeni, the words seem not just fitting, but even somehow too temperate. There are moments in history when certain things seem to become relative. Society starts to make little distinctions, little evaluations how one thing is greater, or more important than another. Before and during the Nazi regime, Jewish people started losing certain rights, certain "allowances". They were somehow separated into a different classification system of human. Of course that can't be happening again, can it? Not us, not our society, not this version of Europe. But then again, are we really in tune with developments? Are we listening? Are we seeing with our own eyes? When I walk through Idomeni, when I watch out to sea from a shore in Lesvos, when I get hate Tweets from White Supremacists on Twitter, I realise that my previous assumptions about our culture, our way of life, really are just that, assumptions - a comfort zone. I believe that to be European really does represent something. The "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" as reflective of not just a high point in our civilisation, but something to be consistently aspired to. The beauty of the idea that some things belong to us all. That we all deserve to be safe, to be happy, to be free from persecution. If we forget someone else's right to those simple things, we forget our own right to them. And then society is in a free fall of relativity. I know that we can't perfect the world. I know that we can't solve the suffering that each of us faces. But what we can do is be conscientious about what makes us US. We can remember that to remember who we are is not just a Right, but a responsibility. In that, the "refugee" isn't something "other" - but is you. Is me. Is us. Thank you Claudio Gherardini for having the courage to call this situation what it is: A Kind of Game.

     

     

  • Getting it all started

    An update for The Imperial Plan by The Fable

    Apr 8 2016

    Morning all :-) A huge thanks to my brother-in-law Clive & Lorraine Tucker over in Boston, USA for donating £50 cash to the project recently, which I pledged on their behalf. Also to my friend and fellow musician Eddie Mole. All 3 listened to me sing some of my songs back in 2014 and their feedback helped encourage me to start the recording process.