It’s Friday once again and that can only mean one thing – Society Diary’s got a new column. Yes, reader, have no fear because the highlight of your week is here once again bearing fun-sized nuggets of tenuously charity sector-related news for your passive consumption.
But first, as you may have seen this week, a pub in Essex is being investigated after refusing to remove a display of golly toys. In another low for the UK’s post-Brexit culture war, some Brits feigned ignorance of why the racist dolls were offensive. Voluntary organisation CAMRA stepped in, however, and removed the pub from its Good Beer Guide as long as it “continues to be operated in a way counter to CAMRA's values and policies”. Cheers to that.
Elsewhere in Essex, allotment hero Carly Burd launched a fundraiser after her site, on which she grew crops for struggling local households, was covered in salt by saboteurs just after 300 onions had been planted by local disadvantaged children. After her emotional TikTok video went viral, Burd has received more than £200,000 this week in donations, greatly exceeding her original £4,000 target.
High altitude harping
A woman from Limerick is raising money for Cystic Fibrosis Ireland through an attempt to break her own Highest Altitude Harp Performance record this summer.
Siobhan Brady, 24-years-old, will attempt to perform a harp concert at an altitude of 19,340ft on the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in July.
She previously set the Guinness World Record in September 2018 at 16,000ft in the Himalaya Mountains in India.
Diary feels light-headed after struggling to carry the weekly shop up the hill to its street so doffs its cap in admiration to Brady and her team carting massive musical instruments up to a mountain summit.
The last of winter?
And finally, if you are planning to get out and admire the spring blossom this weekend, the National Trust has helpfully offered a guide to the seasonal flowers you might see, with help from Last of Us star Pedro Pascal.
Pedro Pascal as Spring flowers; a #Blossomwatch thread🌸
— National Trust (@nationaltrust) April 11, 2023
Azalea pic.twitter.com/onQs8BCnzN
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