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The Bottom Line

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Louisa Benjamin

Presented by Louisa Benjamin, The Bottom Line is a half-hour magazine show on Community Channnel.

Being shown throughout the month of March, it's a show about your community, your environment and what you can do to get involved.

There's 'Lucy's Eco-Footprint', where Observer Magazine columnist Lucy Siegle tackles the issue of urban 4x4's in the city; whilst BBC Radio Five Live's Dotun Adebayo presents the 'Inside Story' in Hackney, where local residents are trying to stop local developers changing the face of their community.

We also hear the remarkable story of a Surrey builder who travelled to Africa to help build a well for a cholera-infected village. All this plus a list of events you can get involved in and community news from home and abroad.

Here's more information about the issues and campaigns featured in the Bottom Line.

The Well

Villagers celebrate their new well

The remarkable story of a Surrey builder who travelled to Africa to help build a well for a cholera infected village. Find out more here.
http://www.psychologyofvision.co.uk

Community News

A children’s hospice in the East midlands is calling out for all you gym junkies out there to put on your trainers and pound the pavements of London to help them raise money. The Rainbow children’s hospice is asking runners who have already secured their place on the start line of the Flora London Marathon, to run for Rainbows and raise vital funds for children.
www.rainbows.eazytiger.net

Best selling authors Isabel Wolf joined celebs such as Stephen Fry and Trevor McDonald today when she became an ambassador for the “National Missing person’s Helpline” Isabel was researching a new book when she came across the charity.
www.missingpersons.org

The World Health Organisation have asked a small Staffordshire charity to provide emergency medical training for doctors and nurses working in the earthquake zone in Pakistan. Child Advocacy International were perfect for the job as they had already been running courses for Pakistani healthcare workers when the earthquake struck last year.
www.childadvocacyinternational.co.uk

For more information go to www.communitynewswire.org

Inside Story

Dotun Adebayo investigates the community campaign in Broadway Market to prevent developers taking over established shops. Get involved with the campaign to stop the selling off of shops in Broadway market, for more information visit:
http://34broadwaymarket.omweb.org

Lucy's Eco-Footprint

Lucy Siegle gives a fake parking ticket

The Observer's Lucy Seigle measures the eco-footprint of an urban 4x4, sales of which are going through the roof in the UK. The bad news is, the majority of these vehicles have bad safety records and leave a shocking eco-footprint. To read more of Lucy's articles about green living, go to www.theobserver.co.uk

And tell drivers of 4x4s what you think of them by giving them a parking ticket to encourage them to get a more environmentally friendly vehicle.
http://www.stopurban4x4s.org.uk

Get tips on how to make your life more ethical.
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk

Try this shopping and information portal into a world of organic, ecological and ethical living
http://www.livingethically.co.uk

Use this website to test how ethical cars and many other products are.
http://www.greenconsumerguide.com

Find out information about green commuting from the Environmental Transport Association.
http://www.eta.co.uk

If you want to find out how you can get your hands on an ethically manufactured two-wheeler, then contact these cycle manufacturers:

http://www.burley.com
http://www.orbit-cycles.co.uk
http://www.bromptonbicycle.co.uk
http://www.pashley.co.uk

Or try something a bit more unusual, the Segway, which is an innovative electronic scooter to use in pedestrian areas (and certainly a way to get noticed!). http://www.segway.com.

Count Me In Calendar

Here's some events and campaigns for you to get active in your community over March.

Fairtrade Fortnight is from March 6 to 19. Why not enter our competition to win a Fairtrade hamper of goodies or find out more from the Fairtrade Foundation about what fairtrade is, and how the fortnight is being marked.
http://www.fairtrade.org.uk

Share the Care Week March 20 - 26 is Share the Care Week, when you can swap places with a carer and let them take a short break.
http://www.sharedcarenetwork.org.uk

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 15 March 2006 )

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