# Get that happy ActionAid feeling on Blue Monday

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/01/10/get-happy-actionaid-feeling-blue-monday/
- Published: 2011-01-10T06:10:09+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Admittedly that headline reads like a rather cheesy commercial, but I think that’s
part of the attraction of this event. ActionAid is going to make the best out of
one of the worst dates in the year.**

Blue Monday, on 17 January, is [said to be one of the most depressing days of the year](http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2010/01/18/2010-01-18_blue_monday_said_to_be_the_years_most_depressing_day_is_a_good_occasion_to_do_no.html).

ActionAid is going to counter that (and no doubt garner some good media coverage
in the process) by running an event in London “recreating the amazing feelings people
get from supporting ActionAid”.

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The 7am – 7pm event, the [Happy Bubble](http://www.actionaid.org.uk/102686/the_happy_bubble.html),“
involves space hoppers, blue monsters and free massages – all crammed into giant
bubbles”.

It takes place in the middle of the City of London, at Finsbury Avenue Square, Broadgate(
nearest tube Liverpool Street station). There’s no charge to turn up, and you can
even choose how the event should smell. Yes, really. I chose chocolate chip cookies
fresh from the oven.

Overall, a clever donor acknowlegement (and recruitment, no doubt) take on another
of these new dates in the calendar.

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   23 November 2007)
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   29 July 2021)
 * **[Government to match fund Action Aid’s emergencies campaign ‘Ready for Anything’](https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/02/01/government-match-fund-actionaid039s-emergencies-campaign-039ready-anything039/)(
   1 February 2013)**