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Making A Difference, locally and globally.
Fundraising for Charity is so Rock & Roll!
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This Valentine’s Night my friend Noreen and I supported a great charity event at The Sanctum Hotel, a very rock & roll hotel in Soho, London to support The Teenage Cancer Trust with the sale of Patrice de Villiers gorgeous book Love Music Love Food – the rock star cook book. 
The evening brought people together to have fun, meet new friends but most of all to show how rewarding it can be to share your creative talent with people by fundraising for a worthy cause.
Patrice, seen here on the right with Noreen, is an accomplished successful photographer and the 
ongoing sales of her art&cook book Love Music Love Food raises funds for The Teenage Cancer Trust.
My project clubMAD – club Make A Difference – is all about sharing stories of how people are out there having fun Making A Difference by sharing and caring for others.
What I will be focusing on, in particular, is where creativity is used to help others – be it music, art, movies or any form of artistic, creative expression.
Our creative mind energy (right lobe of brain) is limitless. It helps us problem solve and is the very source of creative, inspired ideas and learning how to tap into it is like hitting gold!
Imagine yourself with limitless resources at your disposal and you will start to see the power available to you by truly becoming creative and using that to help you live a richer, happier life.
Through friendship, creative collaborations such as this fab event I have spoken about here, community mindedness and simple kindness – we can all learn to share more of what we have with others yet have FUN at the same time!
Now that... sounds like rock & roll to me!
Respectfully,
Alison
Masons Magic – weaves magic on the web
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Mason Fountain is 7 years old and has a brain tumour.
He is an inspiring little man, here is his story.
My Story
My name is Mason and I am 7 years old. I was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour in April 2010 and have been through chemotherapy and lots of operations and procedures over the last 20 months. I’ve spent allot of time in the hospital and at home trying to be a strong little man. With the support of my family and friends, and the lovely nurses and special Doctors, all the treatment is starting to work. Finally after all these months my tumour has stopped growing and is actually showing signs of shrinking.
Host a film screening and break the silence
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Here in the DRC they do not see me, cloaked in shame and poverty.
Can you bare to see what they did to me?
Grandmothers and daughters they do take, into the bush to brutalise and rape.
Will you break the silence? What action will you take?
As your daughter watches TV, mine has been raped and has HIV.
Can you bare to see what they did to me?
We have no home, they stole my things, why do they do these things?
So you can have your mobile phones, whilst we are left abandoned and alone.
Can you bare to see what they did to me?
We cannot be blind to what we see, nor deaf to what we hear.
The women of the Democratic Republic of the Congo need your help now.
My friend Joe the Tax Protester
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A tax protester is someone who refuses to pay a tax on constitutional or legal grounds, typically because he or she believes that the tax laws are unconstitutional or otherwise invalid. Tax protesters are different from tax resisters, who refuse to pay taxes as a protest against the government or its policies, not out of a belief that the tax law itself is invalid. Source Wikipedia.
As tonight is Guy Fawkes night I thought it rather an apt time to write about fighting persecution.
My friend Joe runs a business from his home because he has a disabled son.
My friend Joe has paid tax all his adult life, as have his parents, grandparents and all his generations behind him.
My friend Joe has been fighting for medical care on the British NHS for 11 years to give his son the help and medical care he needs. He is either told ‘the funds are not available’ or he is ignored.
Women of the world – we hear you through the silence
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Women for Women International is a shining beacon of hope for those women in war-torn countries that have been victims of brutality and targeted for rape and sexual violence. WfWI helps female survivors of war to rebuild their lives by providing them with skills, knowledge and loans that enable them to support themselves, their families and their community.
During the event on the 29th October 2011, along with live music, dance, arts and crafts and refreshments we are planning a public screening of a short documentary to gain awareness and raise funds, with support from Suffolk New College, DanceEast and many other wonderful individuals, called THE GREATEST SILENCE – RAPE IN CONGO.
clubMAD and Envision leading by example
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As I have been enthusiastically sharing my idea for clubMAD with people a good friend told me about a local community television company called Envision. Founded by Fonz Chamberlain in 2010 Envision Television is a not for profit organsiation focused on working with people in the local community of Cambridge, UK to make community television programmes.
So with Cambridge being my home and keen to share my idea of clubMAD with Fonz off I went to meet him at his office in Histon.
I was delighted to find Fonz as passionate as I am about helping people help themselves and to be part of a community focused on helping each other to be creative and resourceful.
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