Naked November
We are being joined at this month’s London Bloggers Meetup by Naked Wines. For those who haven’t come across Naked Wines before they are a completely new and different online wine retailer. What makes them different is they invest in independent winemakers in exchange for preferential prices – which they pass on to their customers.
The wines taste great because the winemakers can pour their passion into making great wines and perhaps the best bit, they cost anything up to 65% less. Beautiful.
As part of their involvement in the London Bloggers Meetup, Naked Wines will be creating a special mixed case of wine just for our community. One lucky blogger will even win a case to take home and enjoy at their leisure.
How can I win?
Yes I thought you’d ask. Well, there’s only one free case and to claim this you simply need to nominate a charity in the comments of this blog post. We will then draw a winner out of the hat at the meetup on the 17th November.
The profit Naked Wines makes from the sale of the London Bloggers Meetup case will then all be donated to the charity nomimated by our lucky winner.
So hang on, are you telling me I could support my favourite charity and win a case of wine, simply by nominating my favourite charity below.
Yep….
It’s as easy as that. Oh and of course you must come along to the Naked November meetup on the 17th November. More details here.
Roadpeace
I’d like to nominate The Winchester Project as my favourite charity. The work they do with the local kids is great.
It would be my chosen charity of this year… which is AMREF http://www.amref.org/
They go great local healthcare work in Africa.
“AMREF is bringing good quality and affordable health care closer to those who need it most – improving access to health treatment and preventing poor health through community education.
Working closely with African communities and governments, AMREF ensures that its health projects are relevant and sustainable.”
I choose to nominate Shelter please! Awesome work with the homeless.
Movember
I would like to nominate AbilityNet for their life-changing works with disabled people, using Assistive Technology.
Assistive Technology has been described as:
‘Any item, piece of equipment, or system, whether acquired commercially, modified, or customized, that is commonly used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities.’
Many of AbilityNet’s clients have severe disabilities that restrict them from independently carrying out simple daily tasks that so many of us take for granted. With AbilityNet’s support, advice and adapted technology, they find themselves able to do their banking and shopping, follow education from primary to tertiary levels and beyond, explore the world, return to work and meet people or keep in touch with friends and family, all from their computer. It opens up their worlds, which are too often confined to the four walls of home.
If you think of a disability, then AbilityNet can probably help with it, from dyslexia to cerebral palsy, quadriplegia to autism. Their subscribers deal with every type of impairment: visual, hearing, physical. For some of them, just moving can be a mission in itself, but AbilityNet can tailor technology to help you, even if you can only move your eyes. For so many people, the staff at AbilityNet spell FREEDOM.
Here are a couple of pages from their website, where people tell of their experiences with AbilityNet:
http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/newsarticle89
http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/edu_casestudies
and here is how AbilityNet helps the disabled use their PCs:
http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/newsarticle86
We at London Bloggers use our PCs pretty much every day, most of us without impairment, so what better way for us to support the wider community than to help people less fortunate than ourselves to gain or regain confidence and independence with a little help from technology?
BTW, did you know that one advance currently being tested is using a Wii to help stroke victims regain their speech? It isn’t here yet, but not long from now, I’m sure AbilityNet will have access to it.
AbilityNet? You’re salt of the earth people and you ROCK.
My choice is the London Air Ambulance, which does an incredible service saving lives every day. – Matt Brown
Endometriosis UK
I’d like to nominate my local animal shelter The Mayhew Animal Home, which does a great deal for local animals as well as education about animal welfare in schools across North West London. Also, my dog ARLU came from there :).
I would like to nominate the Downs Syndrome Association http://www.downs-syndrome.org.uk/
My sister is one of the 60,000 people in this country with Downs, and the DSA relies on donations with over 90% of their funding coming from voluntary donations.
Macmillan cancer care please. Their nurses are incredible.
I nominate the Male Cancer Awareness Campaign – fantastic small charity doing a very hard job – getting young men to talk about health issues!
I’d like to nominate Make a Wish foundation. Close to my heart!!!
I nominate YoungMinds (http://www.youngminds.org.uk/members). Thanks.
In view of the recent brutal legal aid cuts, Asylum Aid.
It “provides specialist legal representation and advice to people seeking asylum in the UK, and campaigns for a fairer and more efficient asylum system.”
What can I say? Majority of charities does amazing job and for being involved, I feel awkward to chose one over another.
So I nominate Lewisham Refugee Network who has done an amazing work the past 19years supporting refugees in forms including providing food and clothing; and psychological support for victims of war especially women who went through sexual violence or trafficking.
I would like to nominate:
World Cancer Research Fund – Stopping cancer before it starts.
http://www.wcrf-uk.org
Cancer and other degenerative conditions are diseases of our time. It has been proven recently that cancer is tied to poor diet, sedentary lifestyle and environmental pollution.
Until we change our eating habits & how we live our life, and governments tackle environmental issues, cancer will continue destroying lives and families.
“World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF UK) is part of the WCRF global network of charities that are committed to preventing cancer. We fund cutting-edge scientific research and provide people with the information they need to reduce their cancer risk.
Cancer is a global disease, with some types more common in some parts of the world than others. Since its foundation in 1982 the World Cancer Research Fund global network has been dedicated to its mission of preventing cancer worldwide.”
Hi,
I would like to nominate Alzheimer’s Society, UK, please. I have watched as the disorder has played out its awful effects on my mother’s (once a great lover of wine) life and my father’s sanity. I have the greatest admiration for the carers of dementia patients, while they have to watch the emotional, mental and physical deterioration of those they love. The support that the Alzheimer’s Society lends to these people is invaluable, and the on-going research to finding a cure to this disorder which is both crippling on a personal level and on a national level is of the utmost importance for all.
Thanks very much for the opportunity and we are excited for tonight!
Lara