All in a good cause
On our own we're only human, together we're Humankind.
At Gigantic we believe in doing our bit, giving a little something back - you know the sort of thing. So when you book directly through Gigantic.com, we will donate 10% of our profits to Oxfam, with a guaranteed minimum donation of £5000. You feel good about it, we feel good about it, and ticket by ticket we can make a Gigantic difference.
Oxfam is a development, relief, and campaigning organisation that works with others to overcome poverty and suffering around the world.
Development - they work with communities on long-term projects in over 70 countries worldwide, ensuring that people have the practical things they need to bring themselves out of poverty. Training teachers, planting crops, providing tools, seeds, and fishing nets – whatever it takes to get people on their feet.
Relief - they respond to disasters in over 30 worldwide locations each year. In 13 hours their warehouse can get 30 tons of life-saving equipment to any UK airport and they have the capability to provide a secure camp for 200,000 people - about the size of Brighton. Even when the media spotlight moves on, they stay there, using their expertise to provide clean water and save lives daily.
Campaigning - As well as working on the ground, Oxfam campaigns to ensure changes are made at a higher level; fighting climate change, cutting country debt, controlling the arms trade, and changing the rules of world trade.
For more information about Oxfam's activities and campaigns, and how you can get involved, visit their website www.oxfam.org.uk.
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Ecotricity
Ecotricity is a green energy supplier with a difference. As an independently owned, not for dividend company with no shareholders to keep happy, they are free to dedicate their money to changing the way energy is made.
They take the money customers spend on their electricity and gas bills and reinvest it in building new forms of clean power - wind turbines and biogas plants. They refer to is as turning bills into windmills and gasmills.
Every unit of green energy they generate directly replaces the energy normally made from conventional polluting or depleting sources.
Over the last six years, Ecotricity have invested more per customer per year in building new sources of renewable energy than all other UK suppliers put together.
Ecotricity promise to match the standard regional price of the 'Big Six', and British Gas for their standard regional gas including their dual fuel discount.
And all of this comes from a lovely team of people that aim to answer the phone within three rings.
The biggest change you can make to help our climate is also the easiest - it takes less than 5 minutes to switch.
When you change your electricity supply to Ecotricity, they donate £40 to Oxfam and continue to give £1 every year you stay with them.
Apply online or by phone
It's really easy to switch and takes just 5 minutes. Call free on 0800 0302 302 or online at www.ecotricity.co.uk/Oxfam.
Oxjam
Gigantic's mission is to put the love back into seeing great live music, and those of you who have experienced the musical extravaganza that is the mighty Oxjam will know that Oxfam also holds music close to its heart.
Oxjam is a music festival with a difference: hundreds of events throughout October, organised by ordinary people, taking pubs, clubs and front rooms across the UK by storm. Whatever you're into - from club night to classical, folk to funk - Oxjam is your chance to fight poverty with music. To get involved with the festival that knocks the nation's socks off in the name of fighting poverty visit www.oxjam.org.uk.
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'A local woman and her son with an Oxfam-funded raised well, giving people a source of drinking water during the floods. Char Atra, Shariatpur, Bangladesh
Photo: Dan Chung/Oxfam GB
Rags to Riches: Providing education, water and sanitation to Rag-picking communities in Lucknow, India.
Photo: Tom Pietrasik/Oxfam GB
15 year old Whiskey doing long division in Malawi - "I decided in grade 3 that I wanted to be a doctor. Ever since that time when I was ill. When I saw the doctor assisting me, it made me think that it what I want to be in life"
Photo: Abbie Traylor-Smith/Oxfam GB
An Ecotricity wind turbine being constructed at Swaffham in Norfolk.
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Oxfam GB is a member of Oxfam International and a registered charity (number 202918).
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The Anthony Nolan Trust
Please take a moment to click on these links, my life was saved, you can save someone too!
Kev Bales, Spiritualized
The Anthony Nolan Trust provides bone marrow donors for people in need of bone marrow transplants. Each year, they save hundreds of lives from leukaemia and other cancers. To save more, they need your help.
There are currently 1,400 people on the waiting list for bone marrow transplants in the UK alone.
If you join the Anthony Nolan Trust's bone marrow register, you could be the match, which someone is looking for. You could save a life.
You have to be between 18-40 years old to join the register. Joining is simple - just a small sample of blood is taken. Only if you are a match for someone will you be asked to donate. Again this is a simple process - there are two ways you can donate. One of the ways is like a prolonged blood donor session. It's that simple to save someone's life.
Follow the link for more details, http://www.anthonynolan.org.uk/media/celebritysupporters/kevinbales.htm or call the Anthony Nolan Trust's 24 hour hotline 0901 8822234.
Also, you can join the Kev Bales Save a Life Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=106335256008&ref=mf.
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Kev Bales
Spiritualized
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Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture
Men, women and children are degraded beyond belief - but, thanks to the Medical Foundation, not beyond repair.
John McCarthy, Medical Foundation Patron
The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture is dedicated to improving the lives of children and adults affected by torture and organised violence.
They provide direct expert care in five centres across the UK. A vital part of this care is the documentation of their testimonies. This helps them to access their right to protection in the UK.
With the support of the survivors they help, campaign for the rights of torture survivors locally, nationally and internationally through education, training and support organisations who come into contact with survivors such as schools and GPs.
If you would like to find out more about The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims, they would love to hear from you. E-mail info@torturecare.org.uk, call 020 7697 7788, or visit www.torturecare.org.uk.
And for their gigs, which are going national this year, please check out: www.torturecare.org.uk/jamforbread.
Together we won't let torturers have the last word.
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African Prisons Project
African Prisons Project is a young charity founded to improve the welfare, health and education of detainees in Africa. We work in countries that have few or no social nets. This means that prison is often the first place to capture people with problems: untried convicts, the mentally ill, the illiterate and uneducated, abused women and vulnerable children from poor backgrounds. We aim to restore the dignity of prisoners by providing humane conditions and improving welfare, access to medical facilities and the opportunity to learn. Our principal projects are the construction or refurbishment of prison clinics and libraries.
For more information, please visit: http://www.africanprisons.org
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Association of Charity Shops - Supporting Charity Retail
Charity shops are the perfect place to find unusual and interesting items while also being environmentally friendly; they are also a welcome home for your unwanted clothes, records, and other gear. Whether you want to shop, donate, or even volunteer, you can find your local charity shop with the Association of Charity Shops' find a charity shop search. You can narrow the search to find specialist shops - including music, books and vintage & retro clothing - in your local area.
For more information, please visit: http://www.charityshops.org.uk/locator.php
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Thinking green
 Being green shouldn't just start and end at your own front door. Individuals, companies, and individuals within companies all need to play their part. At Gigantic, thinking green is an integral part of what we do.
We source recycled materials wherever possible. We recycle whatever we can - not just office paper, but more or less anything we use that can usefully be recycled. Anything that doesn't need to be switched on is switched off (we use booting up time in the morning to contemplate the day). Leaving your monitor on overnight is a sackable offence. Ok, well maybe not. But it will wind us up no end.
It's a start, and it's stuff we can all do, at work and at home.
We don't want to leave a Gigantic carbon footprint. If we do our bit, and our suppliers do their bit, we can make it happen. You can do your bit too. Don't just bin your ticket stub, recycle it! Once you've been to the gig, obviously...
Green resources
We're putting together some links to interesting and useful green sites on the Internet. If you have a green product, service or website which you would like to share with our customers, please email greenstuff@gigantic.com and let us know.
| GREEN PRODUCTS |
| www.goecostore.co.uk |
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Save money with a wide range of eco products, ranging from energy savers to recycled glasses, supporting your eco home, from Go Eco Store. |
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| www.airers4you.co.uk |
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Airers4you sell a range of high quality innovative clothes airers. The range includes wall mounted drying racks, indoor washing lines and free standing airers. Using clothes airers instead of the energy guzzling tumble dryer can help you to reduce your carbon footprint and give something back to the planet. |
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| www.ethicalsuperstore.com |
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Ethical Superstore is your one stop shop for ethical gifts, eco-friendly gadgets, fair trade and organic groceries. With more than 2500 products just a mouse click away, you've found the perfect place for your ethical shopping. From organic wine to Fairtrade coffee, from vegetarian food to natural cosmetics that are free from animal cruelty, Ethical Superstore has an amazing range that helps you buy what you believe. |
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| http://www.ecoutlet.co.uk/ |
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ECOutlet is a website for people who care about the planet and are striving to be more environmentally conscious in their shopping habits. Browsing the online eco store you'll find a wide range of eco friendly products and gifts to suit all tastes and budgets including energy saving devices, recycled bags & fashion accessories, stylish homewares, kids stuff and cycling accessories. Collect eco points and for every 100 points collected by all members, ECOutlet donate £2.50 to a UK environmental charity. |
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| RECYCLING |
| www.recyclenow.com |
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Recycle Now is the national recycling campaign for England, familiar to many from the "Recycle... the possibilities are endless" TV ads. Most people now recycle to some degree, this campaign is designed to encourage everyone to do more. There's loads of information about different materials - check out the amazing video footage of paper being recycled - along with interesting facts and figures, and some common recycling myths exploded. Find out what you can do locally, with the handy postcode driven search facility. |
Gigantic is not responsible for the content of external websites.
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