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 you might experience a little blogging fatigue.

Blog Hops/Memes

We would love you to link up a post about your breasts or whatever friendly term you have for your beauties on our very own BritMums blog. It is all about raising awareness of breast cancer which has to be a very good thing. Read all about it and how you can get involved here https://www.britmums.com/bravellous-time-to-talk-about-boobs/

If charity shopping is your thing, you can find a very lovely bunch of bargain-hunters celebrating their finds with Liz over on the Me and My Shadow blog http://missielizzie-meandmyshadow.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/magpie-monday-magpies-haul.html

If you are more of an online shopper, check out my new initiative where you can celebrate the joys and challenges of online shopping. If you have found a new online store that you love or have indulged in a little retail therapy on the internet, this is the one for you http://kateonthinice.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/are-you-a-savvy-online-shopper-sos-friday/

Inspirational Posts

Adele is realistic about parenting in this post but also appreciative of what we do have in the Western World. She urges us to get involved with the ONE “Let’s Thrive” campaign which asks world leaders to tackle issues of child malnutrition and stunting in Africa. http://circusqueen.co.uk/2012/04/stressed-out/

Find out about the fabulous support offered FREE to parents and parents-to-be via Tommy’s charity. Did you know you can support charity every time you shop online at no extra cost to yourself? Find out more in this post http://kateonthinice.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/what-support-does-tommys-offer-to-parents-and-parents-to-be-how-can-you-get-involved/

Suburban Superwoman writes a very powerful post highlighting the reality of being a carer. It is so easy to not see just how much this society depends on our carers and this is yet another wake-up call to why hospices and other charities that provide respite for families are so essential and worthy of support. http://www.suburbansuperwoman.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/carers-no-time-to-complain.html#more

Louise raises awareness of the William Syndrome Foundation in this post. Louise has a child with the condition and is also a trustee at the Foundation. http://www.workingmumsanity.com/search?updated-max=2012-05-02T10:21:00%2B01:00&max-results=7

Cheryl highlights Breakthrough’s Fashion Campaign telling us all about how we can get involved in swishing parties and also featuring items ideal for celebrating the Jubilee and all things British.http://madhousefamilyreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/fashion-targets-breast-cancer-campaign.html

Emma is carrying out a fabulous blogging campaign highlighting one smaller charity per day. Please do visit and see some lesser-known but very important good causes.http://llmcalling.blogspot.co.uk/

BritMums also wanted to give a shout out to the many bloggers who got involved in Blog It For Babies for Save the Children, in the Live Below the Line challenge and in the Blogging For Madeline Campaign. Well done one and all. You make such a difference.

Call To Action

Don’t forget to join the BritMums Charity Connections – Blogging It Forward group.

If you blog about good causes, you can now display a special BritMums badge on your blog.

If you have any posts that you would like to see featured in the charity round-up please email kateonthinice@gmail.com and do please link them up below too

About Kate Davis-Holmes

Kate Davis-Holmes is a writer and blogger. She is married with 3 children. After obtaining a law degree from Cambridge University, Kate spent 20 years working in local and national organisations. She has experience of project management. media relations, events organisation, advice-giving and the facilitation of learning groups. Kate’s interests include bargain-hunting, reading, travelling and cookery. She has a passion for helping good causes and seeing women get a fairer deal in society.