Just got this in the weeks Pick Me Up email... read carefully and pass it on! Have a good night tonight... may your new years be filled with dancing fun and merriment...

baci,

xxx

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Pass it round
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"I just got back from India where I've been working in
some of the villages that just got wiped out. I've
still got photos of people there in my camera. Before
I went, I  worked in the Emergencies section of Cafod
in Brixton, which is one of the aid agencies asking
for money now. When there's a big enough emergency
(like Southern Africa or Iraq last year), the Disasters
Emergency Committee gets all the different agencies,
like Oxfam and Save the Children and the Red Cross,
to work together. So, on Boxing Day, they'll have rung
round all the heads of the different charities and
decided who was going to do what. So, if you give money
to the DEC, it gets allocated back to whichever charities
have the best capacity to spend it. BT and the Post Office
give their services for free so barely anything gets used
up in admin costs and the charities agree to spend
everything they raise within six months." Claire


Give some of tonight's drinking money to the DEC. If you
don't, you know they'll only go and make another Band Aid
record and you'll only have yourself to blame.
https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm
Now go and get pissed, knowing you've done your bit.


Happy New Year!


love,

Pick Me Up



PS. Neela says: "One really important thing is that you
make your donations 'gift aid'. When you call up the DEC
to donate (0870 60 60 900 or online http://www.dec.org.uk/)
then tell them that you're a taxpayer, or tick the 'giftaid'
box. If you do this, then they can add 28% to everything to
donate by making the tax man top it up. Give a million
squid and it'll automatically be £1.28million. So say it:
'I PAY TAX'. No naughty strings attached, I promise."