If you not familiar with Blog Action Day, it’s basically one day of the year where thousands of bloggers all blog about one important issue in an attempt to make a difference via the internet. Some will talk about issues close to their hearts, others about ways to donate and fight the cause.

It doesn’t so much matter what your blogged about providing it covers that years topic.

Information from their website:

Post Topics

The best thing a blog can do is to keep their post on topic. Audiences visit our blogs because they enjoy the style, personality and topic of the site. So it makes sense that the best way to get through to these audiences is to use that same style, personality and topic to talk about Poverty. For example:

• A Design Blog might analyse a set of charity posters and how they convey their message.
• A Tech Blog might look at pro-poor technologies and projects.
• A Political Blog might examine the relevant agendas of leading candidates.
• A Sports Blog might look at recent charity activities of a major sports franchise.

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What Can One Person Do?

Poverty is not only a pressing issue, it is a complex one. It’s easy to think that there isn’t much an individual can do. Fortunately this isn’t the case at all. With activities ranging from advocacy and professional contribution to charity and financing, there is in fact many ways that we can act.

You can find a range of resources about poverty, about what the average person can do as well as dozens of post suggestions and ideas in our Resources section.

Visit the Resources Section.

To learn more and/or get involved then visit their Blog Action Day’s website @ http://blogactionday.org

Make-A-Wish Foundation® have teamed up with Fright Nights to bring you what could be the paranormal event of the year raising funds for a charitable cause.

I was contacted by Francesca Towson today whom was looking to promote this good cause, now although I’m no fan of commercial companies such as ‘Fright Nights’, I still see and understand the need to raise funds and whom better than Make-A-Wish foundation®.

Anyway she wanted me to post a press release so here are the details from their website.

Oh one last thing, if you can’t make their event, then why not consider just donating direct to them, every penny counts, if you do manage to attend their event you’ll have a hard decision to make, and that would be which on of the fantastic locations to go.

http://www.make-a-wish.org.uk

Charity Registration No. 295672

The Great British Ghost Hunt

For one night only, 15 allegedly haunted locations across the UK will be taking part in a unique and truly hair-raising event.

Make-A-Wish, in association with the Fright Nights Team, invites you to come along to one of the following locations and take part in the first-ever competition to find the UK’s Most Haunted Location.

Each attendee will join experienced mediums and clairvoyants, with their help and with the use of authentic ghost hunting and psychic equipment gather information on haunting activity from each site, which will be collated to identify the UK’s most haunted venue.

The exciting night will be taking place on Saturday 15th December 2007 across the various locations as follows:

Scotland – Niddery Street Vaults in Edinburgh and The RRS Discovery in Dundee – for further information contact Amanda Hillhouse on 0141 8890220 or email amanda.hillhouse@makeawish.org.uk

Northern England – Ordsall Hall in Salford, Bolling Hall in Bradford and Stanley Palace in Chester – for further information contact Francesca Towson on 01904 567319 or email francesca.towson@makeawish.org.uk

Eastern England – Galleries of Justice in Nottingham and Peterborough Museum in Peterborough – for further information contact Natalie Martin-Loat on 01733 894495 or email natalie.martin-loat@makeawish.org.uk

South East England – Buckingham House in Portsmouth –for further information contact Frances Heath on 01962 820302 or email frances.heath@makeawish.org.uk

South West England – West Country Inn in Bideford and Woodchester Mansion in Stroud – for further information contact Natalie Taylor on 01179 678819 or email natalie.taylor@makeawish.org.uk

Wales & Western England – Pembroke Castle in Pembroke SW Wales, Oxford Castle in Oxford, The Commandery in Worcester, Bordesley Hall in Alvechurch Nr. Redditch and Woodchester Mansion in Stroud – for further information contact Jennie Mould on 01527 64406 or email jennie.mould@makeawish.org.uk

Northern Ireland – TBC for further information contact Darren Fowler on 02890 805580 or email darren.fowler@makeawish.org.uk

At the same time as being frightened out of your wits you will be raising money to grant magical wishes.

There website is here: http://www.make-a-wish.org.uk