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This month’s Char­ity Chuckle, to be held on Valentine’s Day at the Latest Music Bar, 8pm, will be rais­ing money for SPIN, the Single Par­ent Inform­a­tion Network.

Fea­tur­ing the com­edy tal­ents of Lee Hume, Sarah Hendrickx, Rich Perry, Jim Hol­land, Joe Foster, Rue Bar­rett and Julie Jepson MCing, the night looks set to be an amus­ing and enter­tain­ing event and the per­fect way to spend a Valentines Day, whether with a part­ner, look­ing to find one, or quite happy as you are.

For more inform­a­tion or to book tick­ets in advance, please visit the Char­ity Chuckle site here.

is now open for RIDE24, the UK’s only 24-hour cyc­ling endur­ance track event, to be held at Good­wood Motor Racing Cir­cuit in Sus­sex on 23 and 24 June.

Organ­ised by children’s char­ity Action Med­ical Research and oper­ated under Brit­ish Cyc­ling tech­nical reg­u­la­tions, the event is open to relay teams of four as well as solo riders.

Teams will need to use stam­ina, speed, skill and strategy as they com­pete for the coveted RIDE24 trophy, won by the four-man team that com­pletes the most laps and there­fore travels fur­thest in 24 hours. The win­ning team will also secure them­selves a free place in the French 24 Heures Velo event at the legendary Cir­cuit Bugatti in Le Mans and there are awards for second place and top mixed/female/vets teams.

Run­ning along­side the team event, RIDE24 is also an offi­cial qual­i­fy­ing event for Race Across Amer­ica (RAAM) solo riders, who need to prove they are good enough to take on the world-famous ultra-endurance cyc­ling race. Or the event can provide a unique chal­lenge for lone riders who want to put their speed and stam­ina to the ulti­mate test.

Event man­ager Sarah Steven­son, from Action Med­ical Research, says: “This is the ulti­mate in bik­ing chal­lenges and the only event of its kind in the UK, with teams racing day and night around the fam­ous Good­wood cir­cuit. It’s your chance to push your­self to the limit in an excit­ing, well-supported and unfor­get­table exper­i­ence, and all for a good cause. We want this year’s event to be big­ger, bet­ter and more com­pet­it­ive than ever so do join us.”

Cyc­lists par­ti­cip­at­ing in RIDE24 raise money to help fund med­ical research into con­di­tions affect­ing babies and chil­dren. Research cur­rently being sup­por­ted by Action Med­ical Research includes work around men­ingitis, epi­lepsy, cereb­ral palsy and pre­ma­ture birth, as well as some very rare and dis­tress­ing con­di­tions that severely affect chil­dren. Last year’s event raised more than £80,000 for the charity.

There are sev­eral dif­fer­ent entry options. By tak­ing the fun­drais­ing team option, teams of four can enter for £240 and then com­mit to rais­ing £1,300 in spon­sor­ship. By tak­ing the sport­ive team option, teams of four can enter for £1,000 with no fur­ther pay­ment or spon­sor­ship due. Fun­drais­ing solo riders entry is £60, with a com­mit­ment to raise £325 in spon­sor­ship. Sport­ive solo entry is £250 with no fur­ther pay­ment or spon­sor­ship due.

For more inform­a­tion about RIDE24 and to register, visit the web­site www.action.org.uk/ride24. Altern­at­ively, con­tact Sarah Steven­son on 01273 735788 or sarahs@action.org.uk.

Raj Bur­man, Ambas­sador for the UN Global Poverty Pro­ject, will be speak­ing to Bill Gates about launch­ing the 2012 Global Poverty Ambas­sador Pro­gram live from Lon­don. You can listen live at one pm by fol­low­ing this link or tune in to our spe­cial news show at 6pm for full cov­er­age of the event on Radio Free Brighton.

And please visit the Global Poverty Pro­ject web­site for more inform­a­tion or to get involved.

“INTO Giv­ing presents…
TIS THE SEASON TO BE INTO GIVING
Fea­tur­ing live per­form­ances from:
TRAILS
LAURA WARD AND THE RISEN ROAD
WE WALK IN STRAIGHT LINES
TREE HOUSE FIRE (ACOUSTIC SET)
LEWIS MCKALE
]INTO Giv­ing present “Tis The Sea­son To Be INTO Giv­ing” an Xmas char­ity based live show with Xmas cov­ers, clas­sic cov­ers and ori­gin­als from Trails, Laura Ward and the Risen Road, We Walk In Straight Lines, Tree House Fire (acous­tic set) and Lewis McKale fol­lowed by a DJ ‘til late. As well as the music there will be a raffle with amaz­ing prizes to be won. For more info on INTO Giv­ing please go to http://www.into-corporate.com/en-gb/about-into/into-giving.aspx”

Stand Up to Elim­in­ate Viol­ence Against Women

Fea­tur­ing the com­edy styl­ings of Zoe Lyons, Kate Smurthwaite, Julie Jepson, Dar­ren Maskell, Jo Neary and Jon­wayne Connolly.

Komedia, Tues­day 6^th Decem­ber, 20:30

Char­ity Chuckle is the South-east’s first and only reg­u­lar com­edy fun­draiser. It has rap­idly become a high­light in Brighton’s com­edy cal­en­dar, show­cas­ing the best in new stand-up and the chance to see estab­lished comedi­ans in an atmo­spheric live set­ting. This year alone, Char­ity Chuckle has raised over £2,500 for local charities.

On the sixth of Decem­ber Chrity Chuckle will be present­ing a show fea­tur­ing some of the best cur­rent com­edy acts, and all o raise money for RISE and the Survivor’s Net­work, as part of Brighton and Hove’s 16-days cam­paign. The cam­paign aims to raise aware­ness of the prob­lem of viol­ence against women, and to high­light the con­nec­tions between women, viol­ence, and human rights. It marks the inter­na­tional 16 days of act­iv­ism to elim­in­ate viol­ence against women that falls between 25 Novem­ber (the Inter­na­tional Day for the Elim­in­a­tion of Viol­ence Against Women) and 10 Decem­ber (Inter­na­tional Human Rights Day).

Show begins at half past eight, and tick­ets advance tick­ets are avail­able from Komedia here.

Pride would like to invite inter­ested parties to a new monthly meet­ing tak­ing place On Thursday 8^th Decem­ber 2011 at 7pm St James House Com­munity Room, High Street, Brighton, BN2 1RW.

The aim and object­ive of the meet­ing is to involve the com­munity in its pride and share views and have involve­ment in decisions for next years event.

For fur­ther inform­a­tion please see their web­site here.