Just a few days left to help us out by voting in the NatWest CommunityForce awards.

We are doing quite well compared to many of the entries – but there are only 4 awards per area (we are Swindon area) and several of the entries have the advantage of being more widely known. Please register and vote for us if you have not already done so!

http://communityforce.natwest.com/project/2297

The link to register is at the top of the page. You will receive an email to the address you register with, you need to click a link in it to confirm registration, then you should be able to login with the details you just registered and start voting! You can vote for up to 3 projects, in any area of the country.

It's easy to vote - just a few clicks!

Please use the ‘sharing’ buttons if you can – if a few supporters could get a few extra votes each from friends and contacts it could make all the difference.

Please use the buttons/icons directly underneath the photos & video thumbnails to share our project – the ones at the top and bottom of the page just share the site in general without any suggestions as to who to vote for!

The Envelope icon opens your email programme (eg Outlook Express, Outlook, Thunderbird etc) – ready for you to share with a big list of your email contacts! (Remember to use ‘bcc’ to add your friends addresses, that avoids sharing the contact details of all your friends with each other)

The facebook icon takes you to facebook, ready to add a message to tell all your facebook friends about the voting (please add a persuasive message!) (While you are there, if you have not already added our facebook page as a ‘favourite’ you might like to consider it ….)

There is a Twitter button which should do the same thing.

Finally, a green icon with strange symbol – click it to send a message to your friends by email, it opens a window with a short message which you can edit and then you add email addresses to send it to.

Beneath that, a link that can be added to any email, facebook page, blog, website etc. You could even write it down or print it to share offline!

Holiday Club needs your help!

We have entered a funding competition run by NatWest CommunityForce. Anyone can register to vote, and you can vote for up to 3 of your favourite projects. The projects with the most votes in each region will be awarded £6,000, which would be a huge boost to our fund raising!

We have made a slideshow about Holiday Club for our project page, and we even wrote a song!

Please visit our project page and register to vote – and ask your friends and family to support our project, too. Use the links on the project page to easily use your facebook and twitter accounts to spread the word.

There is some strong competition and many organisations have more potential voters – we are a relatively small charity and need every vote we can get. So please take a few minutes to register and vote for Holiday Club!

http://communityforce.natwest.com/project/2297

Holiday Club supporters can now donate by text!

Donate by text message

JustTextGiving by Vodafone is a brand new, free service for charities, that has no set up or fundraising costs for charities.

• No network charges for people making donations
• Every penny donated goes to the charity
• Gift Aid can also be added to donations

Holiday Club supporters can make donations of up to £10 by texting NWHC11 and either 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 to 70070 to make their donation.

The text message is free and all of the donation will be passed to North Wilts Holiday Club.

Find out more on the justgiving website: http://www.vodafone.co.uk/vodafone-uk/about-us/just-text-giving/just-text-giving-for-donors/index.htm