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Slightly delayed #2 bulletin... but packed. Some choice news bits, the Standup To Stop Suicide nights in Liverpool and Manchester, the alternate Advent Calendar, and thinkg you might be interested in getting involved in. Email me if you've got an idea, think you can help, have a suggestion. And use the forwarding link at the bottom to send this email to people you think might be interested.
Of course, if you're snowed in with e-mails then just click the unsubscribe link below - but then you'd miss out...
Jane Powell
Director, CALM
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| Stand Up To Stop Suicide Nights |
With the cream of Northwest talent, and with the sponsorship of Metro, we are delighted to bring you two night of comedy to help raise funds for our online and texting service.
Liverpool 13th Nov, Mood Bar
Nige thinks he's a superhero. In comedy terms he already is...Edinburgh Evening News
Chris Cairns MC
Liverpool's very own Big Yin Liverpool Echo
Mick Ferry
As good as it gets.....highly original and hilarious Metro Big Issue
Daliso Chaponda
A comedian with raw Eddie Murphy confidence, cheek and super-polished style Nerve, Liverpool
Paul Smith Far too young to be as talented as he is! Bar XS
Manchester 14th Nov Bar XS
Mundo Jazz
A sort of live, Latino Spinal Tap. Very, very, very funny. Daily Express
Toby Hadoke MC
A comedy genius. Helen Duff, Metro
Des Sharples
Charismatic, confident and effortless Chortle
Mike Newall
Oozes charisma. Liam Gallagher with wit. And a vocabulary Caper Club
Paul Smith
Far too young to be as talented as he is! Bar XS
Entrance by ticket only, and over 18 event, tickets are a bargain price of £7 plus booking fee. Goto ticketweb.co.uk keyword search CALM. for the latest information, check out www.myspace.com/standuptostopsuicide. |
| Hyndburn CALMzone |
To those outside the area, better known as Accrington. Miles Whittaker is the new CALMzone Coordinator here, and the zone will launch end of Nov/start of Dec.
We're looking for some companies to sponsor CALM and support the 500:100, and have their name on the billboard above. and sign up to the 500:100 Appeal, see pic. It will sit either side of Accrington. And there will be a music event to launch the zone.
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| Get a Top Man T-shirt & Run for CALM |
Get in training now for the two 10K runs that CALM buys places for, in Manchester and London - or just apply for a place in any of the sponsored runs, and we'll send you a specially designed CALM t-shirt.
We've bought 30 places in the British London 10k run; a lovely run which takes in all the sights of London. A couple of these places have been promised already, so if you want to run for CALM - let us know. |
| Creamfields 2007 |
Since Creamfields 2006 it's clear now that CALM has had a huge impact on the people they met last year at the event. As we headed up to Liverpool for the 2007 festival, the list of artists arranging interviews with us was incredible.
As supporters of CALM, the Cream organisers did everything to let us spread the word, giving us a great spot to plant our camera base and all the backstage passes we could handle!
With a line up including The Chemical Brothers, Groove Armada and Mark Ronson, we knew we were in for a great day, but I don't think any of us could have predicted how supportive and open some of the artists would be.
Annie Mac, New Young Pony Club, James Zabiela and Rob Tissera were just some of the artists who answered our challenging questions about life, love and what making music means to them with brutal honesty. Anton Powers told us openly about his recent struggles dealing with loss and DJ Yousef described the importance he places on music in his personal life.
We were filming onstage with Zabiela, hanging out talking future projects with Kelis' band and standing awe struck at The Chemical Brother's light show.
The final word came from those guys and it hit the spot perfectly, not ones for huge discussions they simply projected out for the whole of the place to see "Love is All" - genius.
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| StrongNotSilent Music |
Nick Tate and Anstey have been working hard on www.strongnotsilentmusic.com, C.A.L.M's very own download site offering exclusive tracks and songs that can only be bought via this website with 100% of all sales going direct to the cause. They've got a map of how the site will work together with an impressive list of DJs, producers et al who can either help donate unique tracks to the site or who will help in other ways. Contact nftate88@hotmail.com or Claire Anstey claire@claireanstey.co.uk for more info... |
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Josh Cole
A recent supporter of CALM, and a pretty fab photographer too, watch out for CALM pics in the future. Click on the image for more info/link to Josh.
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| A CALM digital Xmas Treat |
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Catapult Digital have been working hard on an alternate advent xmas calendar for CALM - offering visitors a free download every day in the runup to Xmas.
Click on the picture above for a look at work in progress - we're going for the 'tree'. We have a bunch of artists willing to donate tracks. But if you have a track, a ringtone, a game or video you think would be appropriate contact us.
If you want to advertise on what is likely to be one of the hottest Xmas cards, - or have a download to offer - drop us a line by 1sth November. |
| The Helpline |
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We hope to get the helpline up and running in the next month or so, it will be a limited service - from 5pm - 11pm every day, and we will extend as income allows.
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We hear from Comic Relief about our application to run a texting and online service on 28th November. Meantime, we are still looking for Companies to donate £100 each. See below. |
The 500:£100 Appeal |
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A huge thank you to the following. Forgive the radio silence. These are some of those donating towards this appeal:-
Aig Europe
Akilah Computer Security
Algeos
Alphaplus Security
Another Late Night
Astanga Yoga London
Bloomberg LP
Brewin Dolphin Securities
British Airways, Newcastle
BRW Consulting
Catapultdigital
Citi Group
Corporate Responsibility
Corporatefx
Coutts Robinson
Creative Talent Ltd
Dr Foster Intelligence
Ear To The Ground
Efficacy
Firefly Icp Ltd
First-Counsel
FKB Training
Gaming Alerts
Garrards
Greentree Associates Limited
Healthsure
Jonathan Young
Katie Keene
Louise Moorehead
Mando Group
Maureen Allchurch
Metro Newspapers
Mr D Kempton
Mr Paul Bostock
Mr Robin Walduck
New Foundations
OCS
Ogilvy UK
Ok2b
Popjustice
Richard Tombs
RPM Ltd
Somethinelse
Susannah Burbidge
Synchronicity Film
The Mall
TheEssentiaGroup
Tullo Marshall Warren
Unison
Wave Studios
At present the only way a business can donate is via cheque (CAF/Just Giving sites are individual donations only), but don't worry, we're working on that too...
We've applied to Comic Relief for a grant to match this Appeal We will hear on 28th November.
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| James Walsh
Maggie Day organised her third annual funding raising evening for CALM in memory of her son James. Well attended, with a Take That Tribute band and as ever a fantastic array of raffle and auction prizes the evening was a night to remember. As ever family and friends chipped in to help both in organising the night and the night itself. And the event raised a hair's breadth under £5,000 - going to show what a generous community this is. A moving, funny, sad, humbling evening.
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| A Search Engine with a Heart |
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A clever new search engine has launched with the aim to share its revenues with people's nominated charity.
It's called www.everyclick.com and you can nominate CALM as your charity of choice. Basically whereas Google keep all their profits to themselves, this search engine shares 50% with the charity. So get all your mates to ditch Google and start using Everyclick. Thank you Ben Hedges for this. |
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If you've seen some pretty cool leaflets around Merseyside CALMzone, this is down to an inspired young man Michael Snowden who came to CALM with a barrow load of great graphics. Which will also be seen in some cool boutiques around Mersey.
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