Post by leoroberts on Mar 4, 2024 18:34:03 GMT
Many of you will remember, and some of you have benefitted, from davewhite 's 'business model - whereby you pay for the materials and he'll build you an instrument for an agreed donation to a charity.
One of those charities is 'Fans Supporting Foodbanks' started in Liverpool by Ian Byrne MP (LFC fan) and Dave Kelly (Everton FC) with just a purple wheely bin - and the idea has now spread across the UK. Whenever I go to the match, I always take along a donation of food or toiletries. If every fan, who was able to, did that for their local club, food poverty would be drastically reduced.
As part of his support for FSF, Dave built a guitar which was raffled off at one of our forum meets and successfully raised several hundred quid for the charity; robmc was the raffle winner. So Dave made them another to do with as they saw fit...
There were (and still are) many options - some think it should be raffled, some think it should be auctioned - but what is certain is that people need to know it exists if it's going to raise funds for, or the profile of, the charity.
To help with that, the guitar was passed to Mel Bowen who has used his contacts in the music scene both locally and nationally to invite musicians to record a song, on video, using the guitar.
Dave and I met up with Mel before the Burnley game at Anfield last month when he showed us the nascent website - which had not yet been published.
Dave and Mel
Dave, Ian Byrne and Mel
Mel messaged us today to say that the website has gone 'live'. It will continue to develop as new artists are added to the roster - not just 'stars' but ordinary folk and unknown musicians, too.
Here's what we've got so far...
Right To Food Guitar
Good start, eh?
ONE GUITAR.
ONE ARTIST.
ONE SONG.
ONE CAUSE.
One of those charities is 'Fans Supporting Foodbanks' started in Liverpool by Ian Byrne MP (LFC fan) and Dave Kelly (Everton FC) with just a purple wheely bin - and the idea has now spread across the UK. Whenever I go to the match, I always take along a donation of food or toiletries. If every fan, who was able to, did that for their local club, food poverty would be drastically reduced.
As part of his support for FSF, Dave built a guitar which was raffled off at one of our forum meets and successfully raised several hundred quid for the charity; robmc was the raffle winner. So Dave made them another to do with as they saw fit...
There were (and still are) many options - some think it should be raffled, some think it should be auctioned - but what is certain is that people need to know it exists if it's going to raise funds for, or the profile of, the charity.
To help with that, the guitar was passed to Mel Bowen who has used his contacts in the music scene both locally and nationally to invite musicians to record a song, on video, using the guitar.
Dave and I met up with Mel before the Burnley game at Anfield last month when he showed us the nascent website - which had not yet been published.
Dave and Mel
Dave, Ian Byrne and Mel
Mel messaged us today to say that the website has gone 'live'. It will continue to develop as new artists are added to the roster - not just 'stars' but ordinary folk and unknown musicians, too.
Here's what we've got so far...
Right To Food Guitar
Good start, eh?
ONE GUITAR.
ONE ARTIST.
ONE SONG.
ONE CAUSE.