Loan repayments are coming in regularly as part of the 0% credit for Kiva in Peru idea. There are still 20 loans outstanding which are all on track to pay back within the next 6 months.
If you’ve not tried Kiva yet, its a great way to donate money to those who need it.
Twestival 2010 is on the horizon and once again I will be heading up the organisation of the Nottingham event. The last two events have been great with over £500 raised for worthwhile causes. At this event we’ll be concentrating on requesting corporate sponsorship.
I’ll be looking for a team of keen volunteers to help choose [...]
I’ve been wanting to give Kiva a try for a long time and the trip to Peru was encouragement enough. I issued a few loans when we got back and was very impressed. Its great that as a microcredit service you get to choose who the money goes to and you receive the money back [...]
Nottingham Twestival is taking place at 7.30pm on Thursday 10th September 2009 at Muse, Hockley. This time round the very worthy charity is The National Autistic Society – Nottingham.
Volunteer meetups are currently taking place with much more help than last time, thanks all! With the venue agreed it is now the interesting part of [...]
It seems appropriate to find out about a virtual festival through a friend on Facebook who I’ve never met. This lead to a shared experience with hundreds of other festival-goers who never get to meet each other.
The Invisible Festival is taking place over the weekend of 8/9 August 2009. The venue for the festival is [...]
Like most people, I only heard of Twestival shortly before it was due to happen. Just over two weeks before. I wanted to make sure I was there as I was fed up with missing out as all ‘local’ events took place in Sheffield or Leeds. I was definitely going to go until I realised [...]
A a way to promote Twestival in general and Nottingham Twestival in particular, my post Using Twestival To Increase Your Audience While Helping Raise Money for Charity, has been included at Twitip.com.
The post covers the benefits of being involved with Twestival to raise your profile, raise some money and all round raise your spirits.
I’m very [...]
This week has seen much attention around some of the celebrities that have started posting on Twitter. @schofe, @wossy and @rustyrockets have been posting very frequently, and more importantly, interestingly. Stephen Fry is a well established celebrity on Twitter and even discussed it with Jonathon Ross on his comeback show which reached a much larger [...]
Well, it’s official. Nottingham Twestival takes place on Thurs 12th Feb 2009 at The Castle pub.
A Twestival is both a meetup for Twitter users and fundraising event for charity:water. Events are taking place worldwide, take a look at the list of participating cities at Twestival. It’s 100% organised by volunteers and 100% of the money [...]
A shadow loomed but Gordon Brown backed down on the MP’s expenses row.
This was in part achieved by the efforts of mysociety. They even had a helping tweet from Stephen Fry. By encouraging use of WriteToThem as shown by Ewan Spence and a Facebook group with over 8,500 members there was overwhelming support.
In the US, [...]
