The parent blogging community has come together for a major group fundraising effort, spearheaded by Mammasaurus, Mummy Barrow and The A Residence. It’s called #teamhonk (think: Comic Relief noses — honk honk) and more than 200 bloggers, tweeters, Instagramers and their friends and families are joining in, travelling from Land’s End to John O’Groats and pledging money. (Team Honk is a charity blogging campaign set up to support Comic Relief last year. Team Honk won BritMums’ 2013 Commentary BiB award for their excellent work.)
Our goal: to raise £20,000 for Sports Relief during the 12-week relay. It started Sunday 12 January and goes until 23 March, and on Wednesday 5 February I’m taking part in the London leg. (As you might have guessed, the route is a bit circuitous, so everyone who wanted to be involved can be. Read more about the London leg in organiser HPMcQ’s explanatory post.)
Our theme is walking the Monopoly board, so this section is called #Honkopoly. We’re dressing up to fit the Monopoly theme (race car, Park Lane, etc) and hitting major London landmarks from the gameboard, although sadly I won’t be purchasing Mayfair when I land on it this time.
I’ve acquired my top hat and monocle and will be walking, travelling by scooter or going via public transport from Victoria to Marble Arch, then waving off the rest of the team as they continue to Kings Cross station and onward on the journey.
The Honkopoly bloggers I’ll be with in London include Mums Do Travel, Domestic Goddesque, HPMcQ, Franglaise Mummy, Grenglish, Not Another Mummy Blog, Chocolate Is Not the Only Fruit, The Holiday Tots, Babes About Town, I Carried a Watermelon, A Baby on Board, Manaias Mama, Clarina’s Contemplations, Hatty Daze, Pigeon Pair and Me, and SE Magazines, and possibly a few others.
You can read about the trip all along the way on this page, where bloggers are sharing their part of the journey. And by journey I don’t mean that in the Americanised, spiritual quest, kind of way. Although maybe that too. But these are bloggers pounding the pavement for a great cause.
Sponsor me and the team by donating today!
The first ever Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Games take place from Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd March 2014. The public can join in by running, swimming or cycling their way to raising cash at over a thousand venues around the country, including the landmark events at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Sport Relief is a huge fundraising event which brings the entire nation together to get active, raise cash and change lives. The money raised by the public is spent by Comic Relief to help transform the lives of some of the poorest and most disadvantaged people both at home in the UK and across the world.
WOW! this looks amazing, I’m so upset that I can’t be there to cheer you all on… Good luck!
Thanks, lady! Wish you were coming. I have a feeling it’s going to be a bit crazy! 🙂
Hey, here’s to our ‘journey’ tomorrow ….let’s hope we grow and flourish as a result 🙂 see you there!
Hope it’s all going well – weather is being a bit mean! You have raised loads though, which is fantastic, and I’ve just added mine too. Congrats
How did you get on? I want to see a photo of you in a monocle! Lx