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This summer ActionAid and Gigwise launched the Bollocks to Poverty: Work it! competition and Laurent (gallows) has been chosen as a judge!

What are you up to this summer? Same old, same old? How about putting on your own event, getting into some of this year’s hottest festivals for free and meeting top bands backstage- at the same time as giving your CV a massive boost? By being part of ActionAid’s Bollocks to Poverty: Work It! competition, you could have the chance to do just that.

The competition encourages people all over the UK to put on an event in their area and add it to the renowned Bollocks to Poverty line up.

The event can be anything, such as a house party or club night, a fashion show or a gig with a line-up of the best unsigned bands in town. To be in the running, it just has to take place before August 10th 2009, with the best, rather than the biggest, event taking top prize.

Entries for Bollocks to Poverty: Work it! will be judged by a top panel of experts, including Laurent Barnard Gallows and the team at Gigwise. In order to judge the best event, ActionAid are asking entrants to blog about their event on its website, using loads of photos and sharing the experience from start to finish with the world – the good bits and the bad! The winner will be the blogger who attracts a mixture of the most votes and blog comments from the public and who makes the judges feel as though they were actually there.

The organiser of the winning event will have the amazing opportunity to become ActionAid’s Bollocks to Poverty Tour Ambassador for 2009, which means going backstage at top summer festivals and interviewing bands and artists for Gigwise. They will also involve organise the massive Bollocks to Poverty Christmas Party and be responsible for making it a night to remember! It doesn’t matter where in the UK the winner is based, as the role does not require London office work and all travel expenses will be covered.

Laurent: "ActionAid work hard to make sure people less fortunate are provided with the same opportunities as the rest of us. Bollocks To Poverty: Work It! is the perfect chance to not only do something positive for charity but to also get together with friends and put on whatever kind of night you wish, be it a rock show or a house party. This could even kickstart a career as a party liaison expert which we all know would be a lot of fun!"

Helen Hector, who heads up the Bollocks to Poverty Tour at ActionAid, said: “We are really exciting about finding someone to be ActionAid’s Bollocks to Poverty Tour Ambassador. It doesn’t matter whether you have loads of events experience or have never even organised a night out, we’ll provide you with loads of advice, as well as posters, stickers and other freebies to make your event a success!”

Bollocks to Poverty is all about showing your outrage at global poverty and injustice by doing something you love for ActionAid. The most important thing is that, whether your event wins or not, you’ll be helping poor communities fight their way out of poverty with the awareness and money you raise. So get planning!

For all the information, log on to: ActionAid UK: Bollocks to Poverty