Stroud Community TV Supporting David Ireland's 'A Good Old Fashioned Christmas' Charity Single

A Good Old Fashioned Christmas (Charity single)

Posted on 18. Dec, 2013 by philip in Charity, Featured, Music

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Stroud’s David Ireland with Stroud’s Skyhook Studios raising money for The Big Issue – go on download the track, share, Facebook, tweet etc….they write:

Fundraising single for The Big Issue Foundation 
Download here – https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/goo… 
or here – http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/davidireland2
or here – http://www.skyhookstudios.com/a-good-…
Singer/Songwriter: David Ireland
Video: Zebrafish Media
Director: Guy Davies

“Nearly 100 people a week turn to the Big Issue for an opportunity to help themselves at a time of utter personal crisis. The Big Issue Foundation is small but national charity. We work with some of the most disadvantaged and excluded individuals in the land; people who have lost more than it is comfortable to imagine, their homes, their families and their sense of themselves in the world. We urgently need to offer more support and hope for the future.”

“Our mission is to connect vendors with the vital support and personal solutions that enable them to rebuild their lives; to find their own paths as they journey away from homelessness.” The Big Issue Foundation

You can help by downloading this track, sharing with your friends, posting on your facebook page and tweeting. Go on…make a difference

A Good Old Fashioned Christmas, created by musician David Ireland, was inspired by the Big Issue’s philosophy that everyone of us can make a small difference and so, together, contribute to real, significant and lasting change.

David Ireland and Skyhook Studios are donating 20 per cent of all sales and royalties from the single to the charity and hopes that it can also demonstrate how little it takes to change a life. For example, just £20 can support efforts to help a vendor end rough sleeping, and £15 can provide access to training and employment.

“We are absolutely delighted that the first record we’re producing is for such a wonderful cause,” says Chris Aylmer, owner of Skyhook Studios. “We hope it will go some way to make a difference to the work The Big Issue Foundation is doing in the UK.”

“The Big Issue works with some of the most disadvantaged people in the UK – nearly 100 people a week turn to them at a time of personal crisis,” adds David Ireland. “They are completely reliant on donors and fundraising to help these people rebuild their lives. It could be any of us out there. I am especially moved by their drive to raise awareness of the issue in schools, as so many people who are homeless say they first ran away as a child, and more and more people end up rough sleeping when they are still in their teens. If we can’t take a moment to think about that one fact at Christmas then the whole season means very little.”

More about Skyhook at: http://www.skyhookstudios.com/

More about David Ireland at: http://www.reverbnation.com/davidireland

See also David Ireland and Cosmic Glue on Stroud Community TV: http://stroudcommunity.tv/boy-in-the-attic-cosmic-glue-recording-session/