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Twenty Five Pounds

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£25 - What will that get?

£25 for Alzheimer ScotlandWe are looking to raise a lot of money through Memory Fest and we appreciate all of the help we are receiving.

We think its important to grasp what even small amounts can do to help though – making it real, if you like. So we will be having a few of these type of posts over the coming months just to give some example of how money raised might be spent and what the benefits are.

“Did you know that £25 could pay for a day’s costs for one of Alzheimer Scotland’s mobile information vehicles to raise awareness of dementia and bring information on the condition to local communities.”

There we go, that’s our first one, watch out for the next!

Website Live!

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Website Live

Website ScreenA week later than we had hoped, but our website is now live.

There may be some teething problems over the next few days as it starts to be used, so apologies in advance.

Seriously though if you do find something that doesn’t work or some rogue colour or text appears, then please let us know!

We will be keeping this up to date with everything Memory Fest ’16 related so please keep checking back regularly.

There are also some sponsorship opportunities with the site – would you like a link to your own website? What about a page on the site to tell people all about your business? Maybe just a small advert banner. Have a think and let us know how we can work together and support our Memory Fest ’16 charities at the same time.

 

 

Our Logo!

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Memory Fest '16 Logo

You know when you see something, and that makes you think of something else, similar but tweaked, and kinda like, different …. ?

Well, that’s how I felt when Iain showed me an idea for our Logo that he had mocked up on his phone. I liked it, but it was too ‘busy’ and there were too many colours, and well, it just wasn’t quite what I wanted.

Memory Fest '16 LogoBut it set me thinking, and sketching, and after pulling my hair out a bit, I came up with the design I was happy with. I hope you like it too.

Its overall shape is a plectrum, it shows an outline of someone thinking about and remembering music, there is a classic electric guitar at the bottom and at the top is the forget-me-not symbol, all simple in purple and black outline – to me it sums up what we are trying to do with Memory Fest ’16.

Our Hosts

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Our Hosts - Club Bliss

Well, we needed a venue for Memory Fest ’16 that could hold enough people, provide a suitable stage for at least two live bands to perform some terrific Classic Rock and be easily accessible to everyone – we found one!

Following a meeting with Ryan at Club Bliss we are able to confirm the venue is booked for 1 May 2016 and the doors to Memory Fest ’16 will open at 7 pm that night.

Yes, we know its a Sunday night, but as it is a Bank Holiday the next day we hope that many of you will be able to play out … its not really a school night for most people (carers and nurses excepted of course!)

Memory Fest ’16 – The Launch!

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Memory Fest Launch

Morning everyone

Hope you all had a great weekend! February already, can’t believe how quickly the time is moving (is that a sign I am getting old, I wonder?)

I’ve had quite an exciting weekend with the ‘launch’ or at least announcement that Memory Fest will be happening this year! OK, I know you are thinking, what is Memory Fest?

Well, it’s an idea that I had last year, 2015, and it is finally coming to life, I hope I don’t bore you all with it over the next 3 months.

I am organising, with help from a team of like minded people, a Live Music Gig at Club Bliss in Kirkintilloch on 1st May 2016 – raising awareness and much needed funds for Dementia UK and Alzheimer Scotland through Classic Rock!

We will have two live Bands on the evening, with some other potentially very interesting activities planned to go along side and during the intervals.

Our Facebook page is live now, if you have time please have a look at it and maybe share it amongst your ‘friends’. The more support we receive the more funds we can raise. Oh yes, there is a Twitter thingy too, but not sure how much this will be used.

I realise that not everyone will be able to come along on the night and so have also organised online fundraising through Just Giving so that people can pledge on line (I think it is also possible to set up a text donation facility too but I haven’t got that sorted yet!).

There is still a lot of planning to do yet but wanted to let you guys know sooner rather than later so hopefully you can get the date in your diary.

Wish me luck, please!

Cheers

Stephen

Do You Tweet?

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Do You Tweet

Social Media is so important these days, its a way of keeping in touch with people, with making contact with new people and to share information around too.

Well, we have information that we want to share around to make sure that our Memory Fest ’16 is a huge success and we can raise awareness and funds through Classic Music.

So, we had our Facebook page, we have our website (your reading it!), and now we have Twitter too. I have to be honest, I am not sure how much we will actually use it, but we have it, just in case. If there are any keen Tweeters, Twitterers (or whatever Twitter Users are called) out there then please follow us and re-tweet anything we post if you can.

Maybe one of our trusted supporters will even offer to run the account for us …..

Just Giving

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Just Giving

Some of our friends have commented that, as well as coming along on 1 May 2016 to the Live Event, they would like to make a donation before then however would prefer to donate to only one of the Charities that we are working with, rather than having their donations being split between the two.

This is perfectly acceptable, of course, and to make it easier for your we have set up our Just Giving Fundraising Pages, one for Dementia UK and one for Alzheimer Scotland – both accessible through our Memory Fest Team page

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