# Two charities using Lego to get their message across

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/02/28/two-charities-using-lego-get-message-across/
- Published: 2014-02-28T16:57:27+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Lego is a remarkably useful tool for people of all ages. I use some Lego minifigs
in my Graphic Traffic training courses on creating images for social media. But 
British Heart Foundation and the British Red Cross have gone much further, and recently
published two stop-motion videos using Lego.**

With the release in cinemas this month of the [The LEGO® Movie](http://www.thelegomovie.com),
the first full-length animated movie using Lego characters, their timing couldn’t
have been better.

## Vinnie Jones’ hard and fast hands-only CPR

British Heart Foundation’s advert Vinnie Jones’ demonstrating hands-only CPR proved
a hit in December 2011. It has been viewed more than 3.7 million times since then
in the full-length version alone.
  But anything Vinnie can do, Lego minifigs can
do too. Here are his little friends sharing the same message.  

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## Welcome to Disaster Island

The British Red Cross have used Lego even more with their new Disaster Island video.
There is not just one video, but a series. Using interactive storytelling methods,
the video invites the viewer to choose the next step to take.

Each choice takes them to a different video, but all of them carry a similar message
about how the [British Red Cross helps to build resilience](http://bit.ly/ResilienceBRC)
in communities around the world, helping people better prepare for, withstand and
recover from disasters.
  The film was created by 14-year-old [Morgan Spence](http://www.morgspenny.host56.com),
a supporter of the charity. The Renfrewshire schoolboy created the film in his bedroom.

Humour, Lego, and a major film release are a strong combination. Is your charity
using Lego to help get its fundraising or campaigning message across?
 

 * **[Building support for Durham Cathedral with LEGO](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/06/04/building-support-for-durham-cathedral-with-lego/)(
   4 June 2015)
 * **[LEGO Foundation offers £100 million for ideas to improve children’s early years](https://fundraising.co.uk/2022/02/17/lego-foundation-offers-100-million-for-ideas-to-improve-childrens-early-years/)(
   17 February 2022)**