Action 074: Turn away from your screen and... blink

Phew! So far, 2010 has been a busy year for us and we can hardly believe we've already sent our valentine's and consumed our pancakes.

Time to do Action 066: Take a break, and tell you what we've been up to.

To kick off the year, we launched our brand new stationery range that will help us do Action 098: Spread the word, and get some of you lot in on the action too. We exhibited at Top Drawer and Spring Fair with our brightly-coloured and ethically-sourced range, full of little tips to help you change the world.

The new range includes notebooks, pencils, diaries, calendars and bookmarks, all with an extra quirk to remind you to do a small, easy action.

Our refillable notepad will help you do Action 046: Use both sides of every piece of paper - once you've finished with our off-cuts, insert your own. And these diaries come in week to view with a simple action to tick off your to do list each week.

"Very handy," Samuel Pepys.

All printed with soya inks on FSC paper and proceeds go to doing good.

For more information or if you want to stock the range in your own shop, contact ella.wiggans@wearewhatwedo.org for trade prices and to place an advance order.

For all the rest of you, keep your eye on the high street - it will be available in the shops and on our website from May.

Small actions x lots of people = big change

We have just discovered a lovely example of simple every day action creating big change. We love it when that happens.

Francesca Saunders in Edinburgh, fed up with discarded crisp packets and pizza boxes littering her walk to work, has taken action by asking others to pledge to pick up one piece of litter in their local community every week.

http://www.peopleagainstlitter.org/

You can sign up here to be a PAL (person against litter). All they ask is that you tell a friend.

Among famous PALs are Bill Bryson and Lorraine Kelly so you could be rubbing litter-picking shoulders with the stars.