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Sport Relief have teamed up with Bike Week – the UK’s biggest cycling event taking place from 14th to 22nd June – to give you the chance to get on your bike and start pedalling for pounds.

Bike Week promotes cycling as a source of fitness and fun for all the family and there are loads of amazing free activities across the country for anyone who likes to cycle – from novices to pros. Since Sport Relief is all about getting active, raising money and having fun – they make the perfect partnership.

All you need to do is take part in a Bike Week event and raise much-needed cash to change lives in the UK and across the world’s poorest countries.

In fact the money you raise could even pay for a bike that a carer in Africa needs to reach people who are incredibly sick and bedridden due to HIV/AIDS. By visiting them at home, the carer can give medication and practical support to those who are ill and make their lives far more comfortable in the process.

Find out how to get involved!

It’s Christian Aid Week and their TV advert campaign is in full swing. The advert features a cartoon graphic style village being effected by strong winds and closes with the statement “Natural Disasters Always Hit the Poorest Hardest”. Of course, Christian Aid weren’t to know that a massive cyclone would decimate Myanmar, Burma – but should the advert be pulled?

On one hand it does seem in poor taste to use this advert given the plight of the Burmese people, but on another it does act as a timely reminder about the current problem in that region? You can find out more about Christian Aid Week at their official site, where you can donate online.

In light of the recent events in Burma, the following has been released by Oxfam: Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar (Burma) in the early hours of Saturday 3rd May. Latest reports are of up to 22,000 lives lost, and one million people displaced from their homes, in the five worst-affected regions.

Your help is needed urgently
Immediate needs are for shelter, clean water, food, and health care. In the cyclone-hit areas, communications are down and roads have been washed away, making it difficult to reach those who most need help.

How your donations will be used
The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), of which Oxfam is a member, is co-coordinating an emergency appeal to fund work across the region – providing cash support, technical expertise, and vital equipment.

Your donation will support these efforts and will allow DEC members, in conjunction with the UN and other agencies to respond to immediate needs, as well as help people as they recover from the cyclone. The DEC urgently need funds to be able to meet this challenge.

Please give whatever you can afford to help all of those suffering in Myanmar (Burma).

To donate by telephone please call Oxfam on: 0300 200 1999, or the DEC direct on: 0870 60 60 900. You can also donate online!

Feel Good Drinks are running their first ever TV campaign and to accompany the event they’re donating some cash to Cancer Research. They will make a donation of 50p per view to Cancer Research for the first 10,000 views of their advert on You Tube in May. At time of writing there were just under 600 views, so there’s some way to go to reach the maximum 10,000 views total.

You can watch the video below, or click here to watch on You Tube.

I Can, the children’s communication charity, need your help to help them raise £50000. All you need to do is visit their Rhymestars site and cast your vote for the nation’s favourite nursery rhyme. They need to pick up 50,000 votes before the end of April to unlock a £50000 donation from OpenReach.

If you do vote you also have the chance to win some great prizes including an iPod Touch or Sony Ericsson W910i. Prizes are being awarded throughout the month.

The current top 5 nursery rhymes are:

1. Twinkle Twinkle little star
2. This little piggy went to market
3. Baa Baa Black Sheep
4. Incey Wincey Spider
5. Humpty Dumpty

It doesn’t cost you anything to take part and you could help I Can become £50000 better off simply by joining in at Rhymestars.