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Red Cross Appeal Week gets its own music video

By Victoria Watts
April 19, 2010 at 2:30 pm

If you turn to 8 May in your diary and take a look at the small print – you know the bit that says things like Easter Monday and my favourite, British Summer Time begins – you might be surprised to see that on that date it says World Red Cross Day. Yes, it’s true – we have our very own day!

And not content with a day, the British Red Cross celebrates for the entire week surrounding it (well wouldn’t you, if you had your own day?).

We call it Red Cross Appeal Week and it’s the biggest week in the Red Cross fundraising calendar – this year running from 2-8 May.

From selling cakes to abseiling from bridges, thousands of people across the UK raise hundreds of thousands of pounds (£935,000 last year) throughout the week to fund our work around the world.

And this year we’ve taken things up a notch and launched an extra-special Appeal Week music video and song. The song – written exclusively for the Appeal by up-and-coming duo Reid and Stanners – takes the same title as this year’s theme: “With a little help from you” – and it’s pretty great if we may say so ourselves.

We want you to share the video with as many people as possible to spread the word about our work and help make this an Appeal Week to remember – so please start tweeting and sharing to your heart’s content.

And don’t forget to start making your own fundraising preparations for the week – you can check out our Appeal Week pages for all the tips and advice you need.

Remember, there are only two weeks to go so get those thinking caps on now! If you’ve already got your RCAW plans in place, let us know in the comments below.

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