Join the #banknotes Campaign
Want to Blog for Good? Join the #banknotes campaign to keep women on bank notes.
I always really enjoy London Bloggers meet ups and it was especially great to be on the Blogging for Good panel recently. Many of you asked about how to get involved in campaigning which is why I’m now posting here and asking you to blog for #banknotes and pressure the Bank of England into keeping women on our currency.
And here’s why
Sometimes I hear about things that make me wonder if society is moving backwards. When Elizabeth Fry is replaced by Winston Churchill on our five pound notes, there will be no other women, other than the Queen who appears by virtue of birth, on our printed currency. I really don’t want to let the matter go without doing anything which is why I’m supporting The Women’s Room through a social media campaign.
Please get involved and spread the word any way you can, whether you have just a few minutes or longer, every voice will help. The objective is to get as many signatures on the petition as possible and raise funds for the legal challenge to the Bank of England; you can help by raising awareness among your social media following and urge people to act.
SO HERE’S THE CHALLENGE: TELL US WHICH BRITISH FEMALE IS NOTEWORTHY IN YOUR EYES?
Step 1: Tell us who you’d like to see on banknotes
Please write a blog post about which women you would like to see you banknotes; it could be Dame Kelly Rowland, your Mum, your favourite teacher, Joanna Lumley, Thatcher, J K Rowling or even Chery Cole – it’s your choice so it doesn’t matter if your choice is political or controversial; as long as they’ve inspired you, and you feel they deserve a place on our cash, it’s your shout. Please add the petition link here: Bank of England, keep a woman on bank notes into your post, you sign and donate here too.
Step 2: Tag another blogger in your port
Because we want as many blog posts as possible, we are asking you to link to another blogger in your post (or as many as you like, the more the merrier) and prompt them to write a post too you can copy and paste step 1 into your post.
Step 3: Share your blog posts
Once you’ve written your post, please add to the linky here and then tweet using #banknotes hashtag and also to who will tweet your link out to their 10,000 or so followers. Your posts will also be retweeted by other bloggers to reach as wide an audience as possible. Please visit the other bloggers posts and leave your comments on them too.
You can upload a #banknotes logo for your Facebook and Twitter profiles by going to Twibbon here.
So far we’ve had lots of conversation on twitter and a lovely bunch of posts from some great bloggers, so pop over to see who Geekisnewchic thinks is noteworthy or NYLon Living, Nickie @ Typecast, Penny Golightly , Sophie and In The Powder Room .
More details on how to get involved are here on my blog and please do add your voice to this campaign.
Thanks, Eva & homeofsocial
