Jamie's Red Nose Recipes - Comic Relief

Jamie’s Red Nose Recipes:A book that changes livesJamie Oliver is making Red Nose Day a tasty affair again for the 2009 campaign, bycreating a book of Red Nose Recipes. The price is £3, with £2.50 going to* ComicRelief, available at Sainsbury’s, all good bookshops and at www.rednoseday.com.“Red Nose Day is a chance to completely change millions of lives for the better – notbad for a day of mucking around, making some great food and having a laugh!”explains Jamie.Red Nose Day is the perfect excuse to host a bash, Do Something Funny for Money,and raise some cash to help change lives forever. Luckily Jamie has rustled up somereally tasty Red Nose recipes to help you lay on a fantastic feast for Red Nose Dayon Friday 13 March. With a range of hearty main courses and party treats, there’ssomething to suit all tastes. The book also contains a helpful guide to hosting asuccessful Red Nose party or any fun get together.If you need some help with the cooking, invite a friend to join in and give the recipesa try. Anyone can learn how to cook something, that’s what Jamie’s Pass It Oncampaign is all about. It’s part of his Ministry of Food movement to get the nationcooking again. The idea is simple: learn to cook a recipe in your own home, teach itto at least two people who can’t cook, then get them to teach it to their mates and soon. More details are on www.jamiesministryoffood.com.

£2.50 from the sale of this book, which goes to Comic Relief, will help give extremelyvulnerable, poor and disadvantaged people in the UK and Africa a helping hand toturn their lives around. For example, it could enable a woman experiencing domesticabuse to get vital support and assistance by calling the National 24-Hour DomesticViolence Helpline – so by simply buying the book you’re helping to transform lives.-Ends-For more information, contact the Comic Relief Media team:T: 020 7820 2500E: media@comicrelief.comNotes to Editors* Jamie Oliver has donated his time and recipes to Comic Relief for free. The remaining 50pgoes towards the production and distribution costs associated with the book.About Comic ReliefRed Nose Day is coming on Friday 13 March 2009 and is going back to its roots, askingpeople to Do Something Funny for Money!The Red Nose Day fundraising kit includes loads of ideas to help you Do Something Funnyfor Money! Order your copy now at www.rednoseday.comTo make a donation, call 03457 910910 (Calls to our new 0345 number will cost the same ascalls to 01 and 02 prefixed numbers and will be included as part of any inclusive minutes ordiscount package)Comic Relief’s vision is to create a just world, free from povertyComic Relief, registered charity 326568 (England / Wales); SC039730 (Scotland)Comic Relief spends all the money raised giving extremely poor and disadvantaged people inthe UK and Africa a helping hand to turn their lives aroundThe Comic Relief promiseIn order to run itself in a professional and effective way Comic Relief incurs necessarysignificant costs. Raising funds, making grants and organisational overheads cost real money.Despite these costs, Comic Relief is still able to promise that for every pound the charity getsdirectly from the public a pound goes to helping transform the lives of people living withpoverty and social injustice. If Red Nose Day raises £50 million, Comic Relief will spend atleast £50 million doing just that.It can make this promise because its operating budget is covered in cash or in kind from alltypes of supporters like corporate sponsors and donors, suppliers, generous individuals andgovernment (including Gift Aid) as well as from investment income and interest.