The already lengthy list of the ways skuds.org is different to the BBC grows by one more item:Â this is the appeal the BBC refuse to show. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video (Film by the Disasters Emergency Committee)
Entries Tagged as 'Charity'
Young Turks
December 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments · Music
Sunday evening I went down to the Bar Med in Crawley, where the young people of the town were organising, playing at and going to see a charity concert. Although I am far from young myself, they did need some volunteer responsible adults for the event and I managed to pass as a responsible adult [...]
The Kids Are Alright
November 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life, Music
Apparently half the population thinks that children in the UK behave like animals. To give a bit of balance, here are three groups of youngsters who show that the ‘feral’ stereotype is not applicable:
Slavery
August 24th, 2007 · No Comments · Life
Its 200 years since the abolition of slavery – but about a month since I was sold into slavery myself. Not that it has had much of an impact on my lifestyle. It was all Jayne’s idea. She decided it would be a good idea to have an auction at the Broadfield Community Centre fete [...]
Lloyds TSB
August 9th, 2007 · No Comments · Life
Poor old Lloyds TSB are going through a bit of a rough time at the moment, and staff must be feeling a bit vulnerable, so that makes it all the more impressive that a crowd of Lloyds TSB staff in Crawley gave up a day this week to go along to the Broadfield Community Centre [...]
Broadfield Community Centre
June 25th, 2007 · No Comments · Politics
I have been clearing out the huge pile of old newspapers for recycling, and having a quick look through them before throwing them out. In an old copy of the Crawley News I found a story which annoyed me at the time (May 30th) but for some reason I never actually wrote anything about it. [...]
Enquiry from the press
October 24th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Life, Politics
I had a very strange phone call the other day. It was a chap from a local paper asking me if I knew why Councillor Alan Quirk had resigned from the management committee of the Broadfield Youth & Community Centre. On the face of it a reasonable question, but I have not been involved in [...]
Tags: BYCC·Charity·Crawley Council·Local Government·Local Papers·Tories
2 grand better off
December 11th, 2005 · No Comments · Life
Last night Jayne went to a dinner at the Gatwick Manor for a charity awards event. It was the culmination of a campaign run by one of the local papers (The Crawley Observer) and a local employer (Barclaycard). Over the weeks they have been publishing stories about local charities and then inviting readers to vote [...]
Tags: Broadfield·BYCC·Charity·Crawley·Local Papers
Charity Goats
December 5th, 2005 · No Comments · Life
We got a card from my sister the other day, via Oxfam, saying how she had bought a goat for someone in Uganda as a Christmas present for us. Today I had an email from her saying that it is actually a pair of goats but she got an ‘out of stock’ report for the [...]
