Another serious one, folks. I’ll very shortly be making an update to the look of the blog and filling up that blank space down the right. I’ve had ideas about what to shove down there for a while (adverts, silly big logos, etc), but an email I got today’s prompted me to think that there are better uses.
Thanks to Lynn Lucas who mailed me from my Toon Page to tell me about the Great North Bike Ride 2005 which takes place over the August Bank Holiday weekend. Over the last couple of years, they’ve raised over £100,000 for cancer-related charities, last year’s Bike Ride alone pulling in £30,000 from 710 entrants. The Ride – and other events – are run in memory of Lynn’s son, Christopher, who died in 2000 of a rather nasty form of the disease.
The specific charity is The Chris Lucas Trust and their current aim is to fund a researcher within the NHS. Please, if you have the time, check out their web page and consider getting onto your aged pedalo for the day! I’ll be honest and say I can’t manage it – I go to Leeds Festival over that weekend and don’t own a bike anyway! However, I will either sponsor someone (first entrant to email me with details gets my cash) or just send a donation. Can’t say fairer than that!
As regards this page layout thingummy – mail me with a good cause you support. An event, something you want sponsored for, a long-standing charity… whatever. As long as there’s a web page and a means of donating via that web page (or at the very least contacting someone via an email link) I’ll list it down the right hand side. As the list grows, please check it and if you want to sponsor someone, go and do it. I’ve not got the world’s most popular blog by a long stretch, but 5000 or so visits in 2 months tells me that there must be a lot of people passing through.
Go on – "click through" onto something worthwhile!