Eva Keogan, aka Nixdminx, was one of the bloggers who went to Bangladesh with Save the Children and helped make #blogladesh a successful campaign. Here, she writes about using your blog for a charitable cause. Over to Eva:
I spent a lot of my childhood on the charity trail with my parents raising money for a charity for Autistic adults – there was no adequate provision for it and I have a brother with Autism. I often despaired about where he would end up and so I grew up with this fear perched on my shoulder.
I have stood on streets rattling a collection tin back in the day when you were not allowed by law to speak or shout – a far cry from the chuggers (or “charity muggers”) who greet us daily. It was pretty tough. I would often get scoffed at ‘I’m not giving my money to artistics – they don’t need it!’ Funny as it sounds, it’s true.
The flipside was that there were many events, bric-a-brac sales, charity auctions, cake sales, you name it, I was dragged into it. At one time Felicity Kendall was the patron of the charity and Joanna Lumley came to a fundraiser and I met her, she was best known for Purdey not Patsy back then and I was in awe (and she even spoke to me).
