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Video Round-up: When is a video better than words?

When Sarah from Party of Seven, shows us the incredible zip wire her husband made for their kids, because seeing is believing. When Hayley’s daughter Natty was awarded her Local Hero Award for Child of Courage or Achievement of the Year, because apart from the fact that Natty is a hero, she’s also a VERY [...]

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How to fight world hunger in 30 seconds

In one part of the world, people clear out their refrigerators every week, throwing out vegetables, meat, fish and more that they didn’t eat before the sell by date. In another part of the world, families fill their bellies with low-nutritive meals or go hungry.   The food issues affecting the world are frequently in [...]

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Build it for Babies

Stick Build it for Babies at the top of your shopping list!

A few weeks ago, I attended a Save The Children Blogger Conference along with Ruth at Dorky Mum, Michelle at Mummy Rates It, Chloe at Cookie Jar Life, KellyAnn at Tea & Biscotti. Alongside lots of other bloggers who have been galvanised into action as a result of the conference, we wanted to do something [...]

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charity round up

Charity Round-up: Charity shopping, online shopping & a fashion campaign

What are bloggers doing to help charities and good causes? There are so many wonderful posts to choose from in the Charity Round-up.  Let’s also highlight some rather fabulous charity blog hop/memes.  These are a fantastic way to raise your profile and to make new blogging friends.  They also provide ideas on those days where [...]

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charity blog round-up

Charity Round-up

If it is possible to do good as a blogger, why wouldn’t you? Feedback on the new Charity Connections – Blogging It Forward group suggests that many parent bloggers want to get involved in helping good causes but don’t really know how to go about it.  The truth is that there are probably as many [...]

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Once upon a time… Bedtime stories by bloggers

When Nataliya, who blogs at Greenkiddie, gathered together sixteen other bloggers to create a collection of bedtime stories, they produced a lovely Christmas gift as well as an ideal way to contribute to Save the Children this holiday season. Same beginning, one line, many different stories. Seventeen UK parent bloggers took the challenge to ‘tell [...]

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#BritMumsSTC: BritMums are blogging for a better world

Blogger Christine Mosler’s trip to Mozambique with Save the Children opened her eyes to the grave situation facing millions of people around the world who have no access to healthcare.  Determined to make a difference, Christine and Save the Children’s Liz Scarff are currently at the UN General Assembly in New York to try to [...]

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Polish your blogging skills at Save the Children’s free conference

Over the past couple of years, Save the Children has been working with bloggers in novel and innovative ways to help parents and children at risk around the world. This Saturday, 17 September, it’s hosting a free blogging and vlogging conference in London, at which bloggers can learn new skills and meet some of the [...]

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Blogger of the Week

Blogger of the Week + #passiton

BritMumsBOW This week’s Blogger of the Week is a bit of an extension from last week’s glorious Christine Mosler of Thinly Spread. As we all know, Christine is, as I type, in Mozambique doing very important work for Save the Children and the #passiton campaign. We’ve also had some very important bloggers on the ground here in the UK who are so admirably working for and supporting the #passiton campaign.

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Blogger of the Week

Blogger of the week #passiton

BritMumsBOW At BritMums we love to recognise brilliance in blogging. We try to, every week, highlight a blogger who is lighting the blogosphere up with their writing. We want to share the love as much as possible to build a strong community. This week we need to galvanise the blogging community behind one very special blogger and the amazing campaign that she is promoting.

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The #blogladesh update

Thanks to the help of the mum blogging community, the #blogladesh campaign to press for change has reached more 10 million people on Twiter and been featured on Sky, BBC R4 Today, ITN News, and The Times, among others. Well done to everyone involved. Update: The #blogladesh update chat has been cancelled. Thanks to everyone [...]

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Join our web chat: #blogladesh live!

#blogladesh Live

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