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  • #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.

     

     

  • #holidaysforgood - Help Refugees - shelter fundraising - UPDATE

    An update for Help Refugees - #holidaysforgood - shelter campaign

    Apr 6 2016

    Hello

    Wow! We're only 24 hours in and we've already raised over £6,500! Thank you so much for helping to make this campiagn fly.

    With your donation we've already enough to fund 11 isulated, solid-walled and durable shelters for 44 people, who deserve to live in a dignified way.

    Please help us to keep this momentum going.

    Please tell all your friends, family and share however you can. It will make such a difference to the final total we can raise, if we can push hard in these first few days. Let's smash the £25,000 target.

    fundsurfer.com/holidaysforgood

    Thanks again, we really appreciate your support.

    Tom

  • Project extended!

    An update for UK festivals team up to raise vital funds for France’s refugee camps

    Apr 5 2016

    A massive thank you to all who have donated so far, it’s great to see so many people involved in this! However, now all of our line up announcements are out of the way, we can spread the word even further and bang our drums even louder! So we’ve decided to run this for one more month and hopefully raise even more awareness and funds!

    As an additional bonus, there have also been a few other festivals offer their tickets to this fundraiser so hopefully we’ll be able to add more tickets into the mix.

    We are aiming to relaunch with all updated details within the week so watch this space…

    Thank you again to each and every one of you for donating to this already, this humanitarian crisis really needs a lot more attention than it’s getting in the main media so any help you could do to spread the word on this fundraiser via social media would be hugely appreciated.

    Big love. xx

  • Perks Instruction - Follow Up

    An update for Bristol's First Cat Cafe

    Apr 5 2016

    Hello everyone,

    Just a quick follow up with those of you who haven't responded to my ''Perk Instructions'' email sent on 29th of March.

    I have sent an emails to every single of you, who have supported our crowdfudning campaign, but I am still waiting for emails back. To avoid any future issues regarding your purchased perks, please check your email box (those who haven't responded yet), search for email from youandmeowcafe@gmail.com and send the details back to me asap.

    If you have any questions, simply contact me via email at youandmeowcafe@gmail.com

    Warmest Regards,

    Ewa

  • We're extending the campaign again

    An update for TheGivingMachine - Be The Key

    Mar 30 2016

    Hi - firstly, thanks for bein amazing by supporting our campaign.  We still have quite a way to go but the amount raised so far has guaranteed that we can get  our first mobile app out in the next week or 2 to help generate even more.

    Thanks also to the team at First Impressions who have helped us by putting together an updated video for this and future campaigns - here it is: we hop you enjoy...

  • Perk Instructions

    An update for Bristol's First Cat Cafe

    Mar 29 2016

    Hello Cat Lovers,

    I just wanted to inform you all that I have sent the emails with regards to your Purchased Perks. Please check your spam box just in case you haven't missed it. The emails have been sent from youandmeowcafe@gmail.com

    If for some reason, some of you haven't received my email, please send me an email with your Perk Name and I will send you the instructions asap.

    Have a lovely afternoon,

    Ewa

  • Important Update

    An update for Bristol's First Cat Cafe

    Mar 28 2016

    Dear Supporters,

    I hope you all had a puurfect Easter Break.

    It has been a week since we hit our funding goal and now is the time for some serious updates!

    Tomorrow morning, please check your inbox for an email from You&Meow, as I will be sending further information with regards to our perks. The emails will be sent from youandmeowcafe@gmail.com instead of Fundsurfer messenger so please check your spam folder just in case.

    In order to proceed further with perks I will need to request from every single of you, your full name as it will be necessary for the authorisation of pre-ordered vouchers. (Further details in tomorrows email).

    Thank you so much for your support and patience. If all goes according to plan we hope to open by early summer. With regards to any further the developments please keep an eye on facebook as I will be updating it regularly.

    As always, if you have any further questions feel free to get in touch.

    Have a great afternoon.

    Best,

    Ewa

  • WE DID IT - BRISTOL'S CAT CAFE FULLY FUNDED

    An update for Bristol's First Cat Cafe

    Mar 23 2016

    Dear Cat Lovers,

    I feel so happy to announce such a wonderful mews for all of you. Cat Cafe has been fully funded, Bristol will have its own place to cuddle with cute cats !

    The story began when I signed 1000 leaflets to distribute them to homes across Bristol. And that huge effort brought wonderful results. One of the wonderful cat lovers who has received my leaflet pledged to the campaign but also became a private investor. Cat Cafe has been fully funded with just 30 mins left.

    It has been a long, challenging journey to raise necessary money to open Bristol's First Cat Cafe. But we did it. And I am so grateful for all your support.

    THANK YOU

    At midnight we have charged everyone who has pledged according to the terms of our crowdfunding campaign as we have hit our target. After midnight we have changed our campaign to Open Ended, so people can continue to pre-buy their visit until we open.

    THANK YOU AGAIN, MEOW !!!

    Ewa

    xx

  • Over 250 backers

    An update for Bristol's First Cat Cafe

    Mar 18 2016

    Great Mews,

    We just hit over 250 backers today and have only £4469 left to fund a Cat Cafe in Bristol. Our campaign finishes at 23:59 on Tuesday.

    We are getting so much closer with every minute and I would like to thank you so, so much for your support.

    I am very excited about opening a Cat Cafe in Bristol, bus mostly very humbled and touched by your continuous support. Because without you, this project would not be possible.

    Let's keep believing and sharing the campaign ! Because we are almost there.

    Meow!

     

    Ewa xx