Recent updates
The latest news from our projects
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The pop up shop is coming to BS3!
An update for Calais Refugee Solidarity Bristol
Dec 9 2015
Calais Refugee Solidarity Bristol has acquired a Pop-Up Shop in North street, BS3..
We are fitting it out tomorrow and making it look all pretty and Xmassy. It will be full of the not-needed-goods -in-Calais and there are some real bargains !
There will be artworks and crafts from Bristol artists and designers alongside films, slideshows and speakers about the Refugee crisis.
Your role is to come along, support the campaign, spread the word and spend your money - all for good causes like shelters for the refugees, firewood and food smile emoticon The shop will be open Thursday 10th to December 20th Thursday to Sunday only ( for now ).
Please come and support it and more importantly volunteer to help it!
As always please do keep sharing the project link with your friends and family, we want to get to 15K by 2016.
Thanks for your support everyone, we will be providing a breakdown of where the supplies and donations are helping out soon and to outline our strategy and plan for 2016.
The Calais Refugee Solidarity Group Bristol.
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Robert Penn signed book
An update for Goats for Sustainable Woodland Management
Dec 4 2015
We are very pleased to announce some news!
The amazing author, tv dude and spokesperson for woodlands, Robert Penn, is donating a signed copy of his latest book for our goat fundraising project.
Everyone who donates at any time will be in with a chance of winning this fascinating signed book, we will choose the winner at random at the end.
Thank you Rob!
http://www.penguin.co.uk/…/the-man-who-made-…/9781846148422/
Robert Penn cut down an ash tree to see how many things could be made from it. After all, ash is the tree we have made the greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. Journeying from Wales across Europe and Ireland to the USA, Robert finds that the ancient skills and knowledge of the properties of ash, developed over millennia making wheels and arrows, furniture and baseball bats, are far from dead. The book chronicles how the urge to understand and appreciate trees still runs through us all like grain through wood.
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Latest update!
An update for Calais Refugee Solidarity Bristol
Nov 25 2015
We'd like to say a huge thank you to the Bishopston Bayou Band for throwing a fantastic benefit gig last Thursday. There was an amazing turn out and everyone's efforts resulted in a grand total of £820 being raised!!! This will be a huge help in enabling us to provide some relief to some of the 7500 people having to live in the most awful conditions this winter.
Tonight we are having a co-ordinators meeting post Calais to discuss the future of the group and how we can make things better all round.
Just wanted to say thankyou all for your help so far and most importantly your patience whilst drop offs have been closed.
Please keep sharing and pledging the Fundsurfer project page so far we have raised £10,567 from 364 backers which is AMAZING! Thank you all.
CRSB X
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T-shirts ahoy!
An update for Victoria Klewin & The TrueTones debut album
Nov 17 2015
Hello to everyone on this very gloomy day! Where's the sun gone?!
Just a quickie... Thought it might cheer some of you up to know that I've just put the order in for the T-shirts, so if you selected that option or a package that includes a t-shirt, you'll be getting it soon! I'll be in touch with you all individually, but if you're feeling proactive then please do send me your address and size preference (S,M,L,XL, XXL). My email is victoria_klewin@hotmail.co.uk.
If you didn't order one and you're kicking yourself now, it's not too late! There are still 8 days on the clock to get your orders in. :)
V x
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THANK YOU!!!
An update for The Bristol Music Show
Nov 15 2015
We did it!
Thanks to your pledges we raised £1937 towards our project! THANK YOU SO SO MUCH - it really means a lot to us that people have reached out to a small project like ours - Bristol is amazing and we hope that you enjoy the shows that we'll be producing!
As you know, The Bristol Music Show is currently 100% volunteer ran - we're making the radio & TV programmes alongside our full time jobs. Now, with this money, we can finally pay our outstanding costs and buy some new equipment for recording the TV show, therefore continuing to support and promote the local music scene !
The next plan is to organise a big party which, of course, you'll be on the guestlist for.
In the meantime, if you're waiting for a reward we will be in touch ASAP.
We'd also like to give an extra special thanks to those who donated the amazing rewards for our campaign -
St George's Concert Hall
Colston Hall
Chiverin
Electric Harmony
The Flux Presents
Futurebooge Recordings
Circus City Records
The Social
Gearfest
+ Troy
Thanks, once again. You are wonderful!
Harriet & the BMS team xxxxx
You can catch our last couple of shows at madeinbristol.tv/player
And find us on Social media here:
http://facebook.com/bristolmusicbcfm
The Bristol Music Show
Mondays at 8pm on BCfm 93.2
Fridays at 8pm on Made in Bristol TV
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Thanks! we raised £760 with your help!
An update for Lazyboys Basketball - Community Sports Hall Refurb
Nov 13 2015
Dear Project backers,
You are brilliant! Thanks for your support!
On behalf of all at Lazyboys Basketball we are delighted to have raised £760 towards our goal of making much-needed improvements to community basketball equipment at The Park in Knowle, Bristol. This will go a long way to getting to the facilities upgraded so that more people can enjoy the awesome sport of basketball!
We are seeking a match-funding grant application with a view to reaching our £7,000 target. All funds from Fundsurfer campaign will be set aside untilwe raise this figure!
Once again thanks so much for your help. It will go a long way to help combat inactivity in our communities and help the Lazyboys continueour great work!
Jim Hodgson
Lazyboys Basketball CICPS. I've emailed all of you who selected a t shirt or hoodie to get your size and address...please send this to me ASAP!
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We did it...thanks to all of you!
An update for Victoria Klewin & The TrueTones debut album
Nov 10 2015
Amazing...we've made it, and even gone over the goal of £4000 way before the deadline! Every single penny will go to making and releasing the album, and every extra penny over the target will go to making it even BETTER! You can expect a special thank you from all of us later on, but this is just me for now. I can't quite believe it to be honest. Not only is it so exciting to have the resources to do this album properly, it's also been so reassuring to know there is demand and support out there for us. Sometimes being a musician/songwriter/promoting a band can feel like you're shouting into an abyss with not even an echo back...it's hard to maintain self-belief sometimes and to keep going. When that infamous and illusive 'big break' doesn't occur, and yet you're working so hard, you start to wonder, "why am I doing this?" Well, this process has proven to me that our music IS wanted and appreciated, and in many ways that's much more important than all the money in the world.
So THANK YOU. It's a pleasure to have you on board the good ship VKTT. It's going to be a fun journey!
Victoria xxxxxx
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WOW! £10,265 raised!!!!
An update for Calais Refugee Solidarity Bristol
Nov 9 2015
You are all amazing! Nearly 6K members in the group and over 10K raised in cash donations through our Fundsurfer campaign.
Also a HUGE 'THANK YOU' to the hardworking and enthusiastic volunteers that helped us to do one last sort of our donations, which are going to Calais in a few days. It was hard work but very important as it will enable things to be distributed more quickly when we get there. We've also been able to put aside a huge amount that is unsuitable for Calais but will be donated to groups helping the homeless in Bristol. Overall, an exhausting but very successful weekend!
Here's the unit at Big Yellow - just a fraction of what is being sent in total!
Please keep sharing everyone, it really helps! Next stop 15K!
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Woweee!
An update for Victoria Klewin & The TrueTones debut album
Nov 7 2015
Hello everybody! I hope you're all gearing up for a great weekend. Four of us are playing on the SS Great Britain tonight for a private party...we'll try not to go overboard! ;) Haha, oh dear. Less jokes Victoria...less jokes!
Well I just wanted to check in with you all really. We've just been tipped over the £3000 mark so it's all looking very promising and very exciting! We will be looking round some potential recording studios and setting some dates very soon. In the meantime we're still pushing really hard to get those pledges in...there may even be some radio interviews coming up. I'll be sure to let you know when... ;)
Victoria x
