#1dfansgiveniall

After a weekend of indulgence and shopping, in the United States, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving has earned the designation of Giving Tuesday.

WHAT IS #GIVINGTUESDAY?

We have a day for giving thanks. We have four for excessive shopping. Now, we have #GivingTuesday, a global day dedicated to giving back. On Tuesday, December 3, 2019, charities, families, businesses, community centers, and students around the world will come together for one common purpose: to celebrate generosity and to give.

In that spirit, I’d like to extend a gentle reminder that we have several active charity drives running right now, all for worthwhile charities that could use a helping hand, especially during the busy holiday season, when giving tends to decline.

LOUIS’ DRIVE 

Louis supports so many charities, it’s often hard to decide which one to support for the annual drive. This year’s choice is Stand Up To Cancer. 

DONATE HERE

There are also 2 other drives associated with Louis - 

in 2016, the Tomlinson family, and the fandom, lost a guiding light when Louis’ mum Jay passed away. In her memory, we have an ongoing drive to benefit Bloodwise, a a UK based charity dedicated to funding research into all blood cancers including leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma, as well as to offering information and support to blood cancer patients. Bloodwise's vision is to beat blood cancer.

DONATE HERE 

Sadly, tragedy visited the Tomlinson family again in early 2019, with the passing of his younger sister Felicite’, affectionately known as Fizzy. In her memory, we have an ongoing drive to benefit The Good Grief Trust - a UK based bereavement support program. 

DONATE HERE 

HARRY’S DRIVE

This year, we’re returning to Drop4Drop for Harry’s drive. Drop4Drop believes that everyone, everywhere, has the right to clean water. We are raising money for this charity to celebrate Harry’s birthday and are working towards providing an entire community with a sustainable source of clean drinking water. 

DONATE HERE

In addition to Drop4Drop, we also have an ongoing drive for Stand Up to Cancer in memory of Harry’s stepfather, Robin Twist, who passed away from cancer in 2017. 

DONATE HERE

LIAM’S DRIVE

Our chosen charity for Liam’s drive is once again The Way Youth Zone, a children’s activity center based right in his hometown of Wolverhampton.The Way offers youths and teens a safe, inclusive, diverse, and affordable place to go in their leisure time. Due to a generous donation from Liam himself, we achieved our 2017 fundraising goal and followed that up with reaching goal again in 2018 and 2019!

It’s never too late to get a start on next year’s goal, though, and in that light we’ve already established his drive for 2020.

DONATE HERE

NIALL’S DRIVE

Niall’s drive for 2020  has yet to be established, however donations can still be made to this year’s drive to benefit Cancer Research UK Kids & Teens, a cause he’s supported through his Horan and Rose Charity Golf event. 

DONATE HERE

I am finally done!

I’ve got messages from a few people who were wondering what happened to “On My Own”, “The Tide” and “Mirrors”. Those three songs are only on the deluxe edition of the album (which most of us probably own). For the cross stitch pattern I worked with the track listing of the standard edition which consists of only ten songs. Just wanted to clear that up in case there are more people wondering.

I’m very happy that so many people joined the charity stitch along again and that we reached our goal for Niall’s birthday charity drive!

See the works of everyone else | Get the cross stitch pattern

Finished! I loved making it.

Thanks @lizloveslyrics for the pattern.

Fall Decor Raffle

Time for something a little different!

This little vignette is crafted and donated by my mom to raffle for Niall's Birthday Drive benefiting Cancer Research UK Kids & Teens.

The entire tableau measures just about 12" long and approximately 10" high, perfect sized for the center of a table or a small shelf, and features scarecrows enjoying a fall hay ride.

To enter the raffle, simply make a minimum $5 donation to Niall's drive, with the hashtag #fall. Anonymous donations will not be accepted, as we have no way of knowing who you are!

PLEASE NOTE: This is NOT a toy and not intended for children to play with. The little wagon is handcrafted and does not roll.

Raffle will run until 11:59 pm ET Friday September 13, 2019 and the winner will be drawn on Saturday September 14, 2019.

After a weekend of indulgence and shopping, in the United States, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving has earned the designation of Giving Tuesday.

WHAT IS #GIVINGTUESDAY?

We have a day for giving thanks. We have four for excessive shopping. Now, we have #GivingTuesday, a global day dedicated to giving back. On Tuesday, November 27, 2018, charities, families, businesses, community centers, and students around the world will come together for one common purpose: to celebrate generosity and to give.

In that spirit, I’d like to extend a gentle reminder that we have several active charity drives running right now, all for worthwhile charities that could use a helping hand, especially during the busy holiday season, when giving tends to decline.

Louis’ Birthday Charity Drive

We are supporting Eden Dora Trust this year for Louis’ birthday on Dec. 24th. Every year, we’ve surpassed our goal, and we’d love to do the same again for Eden Dora Trust this year.  

Our goal this year is $27,000 and we have a long way to go yet.

What is Eden Dora Trust?

Launched on the first World Encephalitis Day, 22nd February 2014, Eden Dora Trust was formed primarily to raise desperately needed funds to provide training for adults working with children affected by Encephalitis and Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), to fund research in to Childhood Encephalitis, and help families and carers when they need it most.  

To Donate: 1DFansGive for Eden Dora Trust

Harry’s Birthday Charity Drive

Due to Harry’s continued support of LGBT causes, we are also continuing our support for the Switchboard LGBT+ Helpline in honor of Harry’s 25th Birthday. Harry recorded a “happy birthday” message to Switchboard in 2014 in honor of their 40th birthday. You can see it here:http://youtu.be/ur9UknGcD9U

What is Switchboard LGBT+ Helpline?

Founded in 1974, the London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard (LLGS) is the oldest gay and lesbian telephone help line in the UK.  In 2014, the program was renamed to its current nomenclature. Switchboard LGBT+Helpline provides a listening service for people to discuss their feelings in an impartial and non-judgmental way, as well as information and advice. Our goal is $25,000 and we’ve got a ways to go to get there. We’ve reached goal every year thus far, let’s keep up the awesome work!

To Donate: 1DFansGive for Switchboard

Liam’s Birthday Charity Drive

Our chosen charity for Liam’s drive is once again The Way Youth Zone, a children’s activity center based right in his hometown of Wolverhampton. Due to a generous donation from Liam himself, we achieved our 2017 fundraising goal and followed that up with reaching goal again in 2018! 

It’s never too late to get a start on next year’s goal, though, and in that light we’ve already established his drive for 2019.

What is The Way Youth Zone?

With programs in sports, music, arts and other creative outlets, The Way/Wolverhampton Youth Zone offers youths and teens a safe, inclusive, diverse, and affordable place to go in their leisure time.

To Donate: 1DFansGive for The Way Youth Zone

Niall’s Birthday Charity Drive

Rays of Sunshine Children’s Charity is just one of the numerous charities that Niall has supported over the years. Because of his continual support, we chose them for Niall’s birthday for 2018 and reached our goal! 

. Niall’s drive for 2019 has yet to be established, however donations can still be made to this year’s drive. 

What is Rays of Sunshine?

Rays of Sunshine Children's Charity exists to fulfill the wishes of UK children between the ages of 3-18, of any race or gender, who are terminally or seriously ill. It also buys equipment for these children and supports the hospices, hospitals and specialist schools that care for them.

To Donate: 1DFansGive for Rays of Sunshine

Ongoing Charity Drives

We’ve also established several charity drives that, while they have a “goal”, they are continuous and benefit other charities important to the boys, their families, and the fandom. These charities are as follows:

Trevor Project  : Founded in 1998 by the creators of the Academy Award®-winning short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people ages 13–24.

Stand Up To Cancer : In 2017, Harry’s stepfather passed away after a battle with cancer. In his memory, we established a drive to benefit Stand Up To Cancer.  While the drive has achieved its goals, the work of Stand Up to Cancer continues, and so can your donations. Stand Up To Cancer brings the UK together to raise money to accelerate progress in cancer research. Donations will be made to Cancer Research UK in support of the Stand Up To Cancer campaign.

Bloodwise : On December 7, 2016, the entire fandom was devastated by the passing of Louis’ mother Johannah Deakin. In an effort to channel our grief, the fandom donated to Louis’ charity drive, and then to a separate drive established in Jay’s memory.  While that drive has also reached goal, our love for Jay and her family is infinite. We continue to donate in hopes that someday another family won’t face this same terrible loss.

Niall’s drive ends in just six days. It is always the drive we’ve struggled with the most to bring to goal. 

Right now, we are $395 from goal. 

Courtesy of my completely obnoxious work schedule, I’ve still got 30 rows to go on the afghan, (a total of 6,660 stitches - yes I DID actually figure that out).

(here it is spread out on the bed in my hotel this week)

Due to my overwhelming sense of guilt at knowing I won’t be able to finish in time, I’m matching donations this weekend. 

So - here’s my proposal --

I will match up to THIRTY (yes 30) $5 donations made between now and midnight ET Sunday. 

Remember the charity stitch along for Harry’s birthday drive?

Thanks to all of you I had the best time ever and if you’d like to relive it, scroll through my tag (which I do on a regular basis with a big smile on my face).

And now Niall’s birthday is coming up and I’m working on a pattern for his album track list!  This is just a little heads-up, because I’ll be on holiday the first two weeks of august (with limited internet access probably) and I’d like to start the stitch along right away when I’m back. 

I’m keeping it simple - you’ll only need three colours of thread (I’m working with Irish green tones this time) and some countable fabric. I’ll probably be using 14 count aida cloth again, but that’s up to your preferences.

Here’s a little sneak peak of the pattern: