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March Issue of Blowing Bubbles Available for Download

The main thing BB is pushing this month is their Blowing Bubbles for Bobby campaign. Think of the Ice Bucket Challenge but rather than pouring ice over yourself, you blow bubbles wherever you like and text BBFB66 £3 to 70070. All the money is going to the Bobby Moore Fund.

Gangnam Style. Charity wrist bands. The ice bucket challenge. Simple ideas that went viral and ended up – for a while – taking over the world. And, hopefully, joining that list soon will be Blowing Bubbles for Bobby.

The idea for the scheme, run in aid of the Bobby Moore Fund, is very simple – film yourself blowing bubbles in an imaginative and unlikely place, make a financial pledge by texting BBFB66 £3 to 70070, call out five friends to do the same, and upload it to your Facebook, Twitter, YouTube account and help spread the news about this fundraising drive.

Appropriately enough, given what it involves, the scheme is the brainchild of the editor of the Blowing Bubbles Magazine, David Blackmore. David’s connection to the cause is not just the obvious claret and blue one – he has previously volunteered for the Bobby Moore Fund on school building projects in South Africa (2010) and Namibia (2011).

“The success of the ice bucket challenge was astonishing – there can’t have been a single person in the country last summer who hadn’t heard about it, and it raised a huge amount of money and awareness for motor neurone disease,” David explained. “Because of my club and personal connections to the Bobby Moore Fund, I’ve been looking for a way to do something similar for them, and what more Bobby-friendly way could there be than blowing bubbles in honour of West Ham’s greatest ever player?

“The club has fans all over the world, and people love to wear their colours in far-flung places so that there’s a corner of a foreign field that is forever claret and blue. Add to that the England angle, and the status in which Bobby is held in other countries – Franz Beckenbauer called him the best defender in the history of the game, and Pele said he was the most difficult defender he ever played against – and I think Bubbles for Bobby could really take off – no pun intended!”.

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