Tuesday, December 7, 2010

1-4-1 Campaign..my Christmas Campaign.


Friends. Friends of Friends. Strangers.

Christmas egh? Christ it's expensive.  The parties. The food. The alcohol. The presents. It's just spend spend spend.  And things are just so expensive. I mean what can you buy for just a few quid anymore?  Well...here's a few things.

£3 could pay for two days of therapeutic milk for a child so severely malnourished they cannot even eat.
£4 Answers a child's call for help on ChildLine.
£7 a month covers the cost of medicine to treat 68 people for Malaria in a country like Sudan.
£10 a month - or about 33p a day - provides an emergency dressing kit containing sterile equipment, dressings and bandages to help people affected by conflict in a country like Somalia
£20 a month in a country like the Democratic Republic of Congo pays to test 80 people for deadly tuberculosis (TB) every month.
£40 could pay for 16 mosquito nets to protect survivors from disease.
£44.67 could provide a course of PEP treatment to help ensure that a woman who has been raped does not contract HIV/AIDS.
£80.34 could cover the cost of three day's cholera treatment for a patient.
£134 would pay for a measles vaccination for 1500 children. Protecting them from a disease that kills over 190,000 children each year.

I want to cut to the chase.  This Christmas I'm going to be spending a lot of money on myself, on my friends and on my family, but i've decided that this should be at least the one month of the year that I give to others too.  So this Christmas i'm going to be giving 1% of what I earn in December to Charity. 1%. That still leaves me 99% to cover everything else I need. And frankly it's nothing. But it's a start.

Everyone can afford this. But as the statistics show above, no matter how little your 1% is it will make an enormous difference to someone somewhere in the world. 

So i'm giving my 1%. But that's 99% short, so i'm challenging you to as well.  You can give to any charity you like.  All i'm asking is that:
A) You commit to giving (at least) 1% of whatever you earn in December to the charity of your choice.
B) Once you've made this commitment you also commit to getting at least 1 other person to do it as well.   

If you want to do this, you can either add your name to a comment below, or email me at sambaconsam (at) yahoo.co.uk and i'll update this blog piece. You'll do the donation yourself, this is just a public commitment, though if you want to tell me the Charity you are giving to i'll include it in the list.  Also, you're welcome to include the money you're giving if you like. It's up to you, though i'm running it on the honour system (i take it if you say you're doing it I believe you).

To get to 100% by the 1st, we need at least 4 people a day to commit .  At 00:00 on the first of January 2011, for the first time ever the abbreviated (UK) version of the date will be 1/1/11.  Or four 1s...

So it's 1% for (4) 1 person.  By the start of the 1st Jan (four 1s). And if you sign up, you  need to get someone else to join you; 1 commitment for (4) 1 more.  Hence the name…


And please. Tell people. You can share via facebook on the right hand side of this page, or please Tweet about it, verbally tell friends (if you know people who can't message me themselves, say; someone with no internet access - if they commit you can tell me their names and i'll still stick it up), email the link to people...all sorts of ways. But get the word out and make a difference this Christmas.

The List
1) Sam Bacon - 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 8/12/10
2) Lizzie Walley - 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 8/12/10
3) James Rudyk - 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 8/12/10
4) Asher Diaz - 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 8/12/10 - I'm giving to the National Center for Transgender Equality 
5) Courtney Fisher - 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 8/12/10
6) Alan Hopkins - 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 8/12/10
7) James Green - 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 8/12/10
8) Tom Scholes-Fogg 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 8/12/10
9) Grace Fletcher-Hackwood - 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 8/12/10
10) Bev Craig - 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 8/12/10
11) Claire Margaret Genevieve Spencer 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 8/12/10
12) Ms Cushion 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 8/12/10
13) Kenny Beer -   'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 8/12/10
14) Ben Leland -  'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 8/12/10
15) Hetty Wood -  'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 8/12/10
16) Mike McCabe -  'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 8/12/10
17) Ryan Standlee -  'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 8/12/10
18) Kyle Martyn-Clark -  'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 8/12/10 - I'm giving to the RSPCA
19) Hannah Merrick -  'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 9/12/10
20) Alex Dunn -  'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 9/12/10
21) Deborah Burgess  -  'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 9/12/10
22) Anna Joy-Rickard -  'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 10/12/10
23) Alex Baker - 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 11/12/10
24) Charlotte Mole-Morgan - 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 11/12/10
25) Brian Centrone - 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 11/12/10
26) Malcolm Beer - 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 12/12/10
27) Richard Fletcher - 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 12/12/10
28) Adrian Prandle - 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 12/12/10
29) Lucy Hoang - 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 12/12/10
30) Marie-Norelle Loewe 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 12/12/10
31) Claire French 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 12/12/10
32) @jettzworld 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 12/12/10
33) Matthew Britton 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 12/12/10
34) Dani Charlton 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 12/12/10
35) Jessica Ferguson 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 13/12/10 - I'm giving to St Jude's Children Hospital
36) Shullie H Porter - 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity'17/12/10 - I'm giving to CRISIS http://www.crisis.org.uk 
37) Pamela Walley - 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity'17/12/10
38) Kayleigh Carr 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity'17/12/10
39) Sarah Bridges 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity'17/12/10
40) Dani Frisby 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity'17/12/10

3 comments:

  1. 36) Shullie H Porter - 'I commit to giving at least 1% of my 2010 December income to charity' 17/12/10 - I'm giving to CRISIS http://www.crisis.org.uk/

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  2. Thanks Shullie! Really really pleased to have you on board.

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  3. made my donation to the LGF - and gift-aided it!!

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