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Fiona for her Forget-me-Not project!

After losing her sister to leukaemia a few years ago, Fiona wants to raise money for Leukaemia Research. As a big fan of West End shows, Fi has enjoyed collecting some famous name autographs, and now

So – first we need a website address and to load WordPress, then add in functionality that will help with her aim.

We’ll keep you updated with progress, of course, with helpful blog posts that will enable others to do the same for their fundraiser.

Thanks to everyone who voted, and we’re really glad to hear that the attention has encouraged offers of help for the Hovercraft Museum too – excellent news!

And already a few of you are considering who to nominate for May! Goodness, give us a chance…

Now that the nominations for our April WordPress package winner are closed, it’s time to vote between now and the end of Sunday, 11th April (voting panel in the sidebar – just to the right >>>).

The suggestions are for:

Mark Ballantyne nominated the Hovercraft Museum – based in Lee-on-the-Solent, and which has the only collection in the world of historic hovercraft! There are 60 hovercraft within several hangars on the Daedalus site. They really do need a website that is much easier to update, and a thorough makeover while we’re about it. “The charity could do with some much needed help in this respect.”  WordPress would certainly offer what they need and enable their website to attract more visitors to the museum.

Next is the Hawkinge Community Centre (HCC) website in Kent. “HCC has charitable status, and has turned round in the last year from being a loss maker to a marginal profit maker, and we could do with all the help we can get to keep it active.” Plenty of ideas spring to mind and WordPress would certainly be useful for such centres.

And third is to support Fiona, who, after losing her sister to leukaemia a few years ago, is looking to raise money for Leukaemia Research. “Fi is a huge West End shows fan. She has been lucky enough to get some famous name autographs which she is looking to use to raise money for Leukemia Research. It will be called Forget-me-Not project and she is a complete, complete novice in the area of websites! So any help she can get to get this off the ground would be wonderful.”

So – there you are – vote away in the poll over on the right there, and choose the winner so that we can set about helping.  Thank you!

On the first day of every month, the Blogmistress opens up a post in which YOU suggest an organisation, charity, or person that would really benefit from having a WordPress blog and/or website provided for them, including the hosting and their domain name.

Over the next 7 days we ask you to suggest a worthy cause – whatever that may be – and then you will vote on the “winner”. As soon as that’s done the team here will set to work to have the new site/blog live before the end of the month. Nominations are open until the end of Wednesday, 7th April, and then voting opens for 3 days.
The winner gets their hosting provided for at least one year (most likely as long as they need it), a domain name registered on their behalf (in their name) – with emails, of course, and WordPress installed and set up for them to best suit their needs. Of course we will also apply a good deal of SEO and social media stuff if relevant, with the intention of really giving the winner a good push in the right direction.

So – who or what do you suggest we help?

It can be a charity, a school, any non-profit organisation, a person who would really appreciate the help right now, even a bootstrapping new business, potentially.

Last month we were really glad to support Paul Weston in his determination to find a good job as quickly as he could through the world of social media. And he did. He already had a WordPress.com blog, so we moved that across to Weston007.co.uk for him and will host this for as long as he needs it. It’s an interesting tale and worth a read and referring to others that may need some encouragement to find their new job. Paul has just accepted one of two excellent job offers, which is brilliant news; and what he is also now doing is raising money for the East Anglia’s Children’s Hospice Treehouse Appeal – passing it on; we love that!

Please add your suggestion below, or if you would prefer to remain anonymous, you can pop an email to Babs at hello@blogmistress.com – we will absolutely respect your privacy.

We cannot do this without your help. Quite often we’ll help people out if and where we can. But this is something we want to throw open to others. And one day, they can pass it on (if they aren’t already).

Thank you – now give us your nominations…