Scottish Mum Blog - Writing from Aberdeen
Walking in the rain, or blogging in the snow. On the path to enlightenment, wear comfy shoes.
This is a guest post from Chris who writes for one of the child sponsorship charities, World Vision UK.. I’m already linked to World Vision as one of the bloggers who does a sponsor share for a child through their sponsorship scheme. You can find out more about what we bloggers did for that here. [...]
“Mummy, mummy, mummy, can we put some money to the starving doggies.” a small child cried many years ago. Looking up the RSPCA, I clicked on how to sign up for a monthly payment. The adverts in the sidebar showed a little picture of an emaciated dog which looked incredibly in pain. I don’t [...]
As a parent of special needs children, I know just how tiring and demanding filling the needs of our children, earning some money, and doing a spot of volunteering here and there can be. Ann Maxwell took that to an entirely new level. Ann’s son, Muir, was diagnosed with Dravet Syndrome which is a very [...]
Charity seems to be the order of the week this week. Following on from the bloggers visiting Ghana, I am asking if you could you do a small thing to support the recovery of Children with Brain Tumours. As part of the work done by Camilles Appeal, they have launched a Call to Artists programme to [...]
Red Nose Day began on the 5th Feb, 25 years ago. To mark the anniversary, Comic Relief wanted to show the progress in Africa and the difference that money raised has made, both here and in Africa. To raise the awareness, 3 bloggers from our community are visiting four projects in Ghana on the 4th [...]
This is a thoughtful and helpful feature from Castle Cover. They have built a delivery dates calendar for us all to use. If you’re not sure when the Christmas Delivery Dates are, then just take a look at the interactive pages on their website and it will help you make the right decisions about those last-minute presents [...]
Becoming a parent was the unusual route for me. My kids are all fast approaching teenagehood, but I didn’t give birth to them, and they don’t have my genes. When we decided to keep the 3 little boys we had come to know, it was still hard to accept the amount of work that [...]
A warm welcome to Hapsatou from the Child 6 team, organised by @merrilyme to sponsor children for #shareniger on Twitter. I’ve previously blogged about the campaign and the journey by Sian To to Niger earlier this year. Read more here. The campaign has so far managed to raise enough money to sponsor 11 children and [...]
This post isn’t one for bleating or winging about what some of us can’t get, or miss out on for our disabled or elder care families. This one I am actually very pleased with and at the same time, massively surprised about as it seems to be UK wide, but at what levels I am [...]
Update 27/6/12 – Olivia has flown back to the UK from Mexico. —————————————————— Update: Over £140,000 has been raised so far and the plane is on it’s way to get her. Hopefully she is released from hospital in Tijuana and can come home with her family. —————————————————————————————————————– This is Olivia. She is 7 years [...]
Who says bloggers don’t get anything done? Well not us, that’s for sure, we do have blogger power. Parent bloggers have raised enough for 6 children so far, and are on the way to 7 children in Niger for the next year. Help us do more and expand the network willing to help. Lots of [...]
I’m happy to host this guest post from the fashion management students at my old Uni, The Robert Gordon University, who are raising money for The ARCHIE Foundation for children. ——— Since it began in 2008 the annual charity fashion show at Robert Gordon University has raised tens of thousands of pounds for deserving charity [...]
