If you’re in a rush, here’s what you need to know: The Give A Brick trustees met on Sunday afternoon and as a result, we’re now in a position to ask you, the wonderful GAB community, to send us your ideas for the next project we should support. Application is via a video post and we’ll be uploading the video applications to our YouTube channel. As such, we reserve the right to edit if necessary and please, for copyright reasons, only send us your own videos. Videos should be sent to help (at) Give A Brick (dot) com

OK, so the time starved people know what they need to know. For the rest of us, I have a short video and an open email from Give A Brick Treasurer Dr Egg telling you more about this development.

And here’s what Dr Egg had to say about these last few days:

“Our trustees meeting was an exciting time on Sunday when we heard all that Eleanor had been able to achieve with the support of the on-line community that is getting behind Give A Brick.

Give A Brick works in a totally different way to other charities.  Many other charities will have money in the bank and invite people to make applications of support.  Others may have money in the bank but make a new appeal in response to some need.  At Give A Brick, we recognised that if we dream to support a project, we start with nothing but ask everyone who is committed with us to Give A Brick and ask their friends to do the same.  A brick represents just ￡1. We realised with our first project to support Cross Hands Christian Centre to build their community centre annex that like them, we didn’t have ￡100,000 but maybe, just maybe, we could find 100,000 people who would give ￡1.

Some dreams will be relatively modest. Indeed when we recently learned that a brilliant young blogger was being hampered by the lack of a dedicated domain name, we decided that we could back that because it would make little difference to our first project.  We believe that by such little blessings, Give A Brick will be blessed.  Who knows, our entrepreneur may be the next Bill Gates and just look what his foundation is achieving for good across the world!” – Dr Egg

Remembering that our remit is fairly wide open (children, young people, the elderly and those facing financial hardship) it is now up to you, the community, to spread the word. Talk to people. Find out what they need. If you don’t need help personally, you can bet they’ll be a project in your community that does so tell them about us.

Videos should ideally be less than 10 minutes long and are an opportunity to tell the world why your project deserves support. We’ll be adding the Give A Brick logo to the start and end of your video and will send you a link to your video when it is uploaded to our channel so you can tell your friends and family members. We’ll be utilizing the comment and vote system at YouTube to gauge support for a project so feel free to tweet, re-tweet, write and talk about your video.

Videos can be sent in just about any format and should be sent to help (at) Give A Brick (dot) com

I look forward to seeing your project