Germany brought Tobias Freigang and Paul Thoelen and with 040BMXPARK locals Wedemeijer and Van den Bogaard injured, team Holland consisted of Nicky van der Veen and Pim Scheers. After some serous challenges on the course it was Team Belgium that won, followed by zhe Germans and the Dutch.
After the riding session it was time to sell some more of the goodies that were donated by several people and companies. Then the big moment came to see what the Serious Request BMX jam had collected. Drum roll please......€ 1081,75!!!!
BdJ
About Serious request:
Serious Request is a family of annual multi-day, multimedia fundraising events for International Red Cross initiatives, typically hosted by radio stations in the week before Christmas. The project was begun in 2004 by Dutch public pop music radio station 3FM. Serious Request projects have since been adopted in Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, Kenya, South Korea, Austria, Latvia and Portugal.
During the Dutch 3FM Serious Request, three popular radio DJs are locked up for six days in a small temporary radio studio (the "Glass House"), placed in a main square in a different city each year. Living on a juice-only fast, the DJs make an interactive, themed broadcast around the clock, while regular programming on the station is suspended. Instead 3FM and its website are completely dedicated to the event, which is also transmitted as a continuous audio and video live-stream. Additionally there is television coverage, integration with social media, and a dedicated mobile app.
Funds are raised in a few different ways. While the DJs are in residence, they play songs requested by listeners and visitors, in return for their donations. Celebrities and artists also donate personal possessions or performances, which are auctioned off. Straightforward donations are made into the project's bank-account, and by physical visitors depositing cash and cheques into the house's letterbox. Additionally, members of the public run a variety of supporting initiatives, and in some cities more glass houses are popping up. All totalled the Dutch editions have raised €76.8 million.
In the Netherlands the Serious Request broadcasts and the Glass House have become a national December tradition,that reaches most of the national population. The 2012 edition was watched and listened to by 12.1 million people over the age of ten, or 84% of Dutch people in that age group. Overall, 88% of the people were aware of the event.
http://seriousrequest.3fm.nl
Serious Request jam at 040BMXPARK. Holland vs Belgium vs Germany. By BdJ
The BMX community is pretty awesome. We have it good. We can grab the bike and go for a session with friends. We can ride different spots and when we're done, we take a shower, get some food and sleep in a decent bad. But not everyone on this planet is in the same situation. There are kids out there who grow up in a war zone. They don't have a bike, don't have spots to ride, barely have something to eat and they'll have to wait and see if their home doesn't get bombed at night. 3FM Serious Request is an organization that helps out these kids in many ways and December generally is the month that money gets collected. As a school project Max Cleuren decided to have a Serious Request BMX Jam at 040BMXPARK. On a Friday evening the park entry fees, burgers, donations, and money collected by the auction was donated for this year's Serious Request charity. To make the evening a bit different than the usual riding session, two-man teams from Belgium, Germany and Holland had a little team competition going. Belgium was represented by Brent Minne and Kenneth Tancré.
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