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5km or Brum to Mongolia, it’s up to you

Couple of charity events been brought to my attention this week. One a simple(!) 5 killometre run starting and finishing in Perry Park. It’s no marathon-length BRMB Walkathon, but if you fancy a trot round Great Barr then entries are now being accepted and the run itself is on May 3rd. The other event you’re not being asked to take part in, and you’ll thank your god or the random nature of the world that you aren’t. For four brave and stupid Brummies are going to drive a VW Golf all the way to Mongolia, and Charile Boorman’s sweaty face won’t be anywhere near them. “Essentially we will be driving a knackered 1.2l Car from Goodwood Race course to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia, completely unsupported and entirely for charity…” They’re not off until July, but are setting up stall around Brum a few times before then and have a website with all the info on – tgbrally.com.

What’s Twitter? Oh, go ask Philip Schofield. What’s Twestival? It’s a Twitter – Festival (see what they did there?), personally I’d go for a Twiss Up. On 12th February 2009 Birmingham will be joining over 100 confirmed cities around the world in a night of fund raising, partying, competitions and all round fun — based around Twitter. I’ll be running a tweetastic version of ‘Play Your Cards Right” There are already some top raffle prizes, Wii’s, Bostin gear, artwork, specially recorded records – go look here. For more details pop over to the offical site, or follow @brumtwestival on the Twitter. It’s all in aid of charity:water, a non-profit bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations.

Then you’ll want to show how much with this new T-Shirt from Donarto at Bostin - who’s doing a lot for charity and is completely unashamed about talking about it ;) . Profits from the valentine T-Shirts go to the British Heart Foundation.

brummies speak up

Birmingham Voices Against Poverty is a blog and a series of podcasts of one hundred brummies who want their voices against poverty heard – run by the Birmingham branch of Oxfam. It’s nice to hear such a variety of accents… cheers Podnosh

Will there be any sand left at the coast? Beach number three hits Brum

In a dazzling display of originality, Brummies will be able to relax and enjoy the sun on a man-made beach in Brindley Place this summer. Actually, they might have had this idea first, who knows, but if you haven’t had enough sand and acres of white flesh in the city centre by June 16th the RNLI is opening ‘Birmingham-on-sea’. It’ll feature, donkeys, Punch and Judy, and the bloody civic society (or Mike Whitby, or Bull Ring management) foaming at the mouth (probably).

do a lot of good work for charity?

Don’t like to talk about it: Birmingham Conservation Trust are looking for volunteers to help with their latest project – Newman Bros Coffin factoryLike to talk about it (in a good way):Power Up – is an event to help active citizens wield more power in their communities – for anyone involved in community campaigns or site-specific environmental campaigning. (via Podnosh)

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