I’m Emily, the new Bollocks to Poverty Intern. It’s my job to with keeping in contact with you all on our online networks like Facebook, finding great content and helping to organise competitions such as Work It! When I’m not here busy working away I can be found studying Advertising at the University of Gloucestershire or at home trying to throw as many BBQ’s as possible with my lovely housemates.

This Summer I have been given the very exciting job of going to Beach Break Live with the rest of the team to keep you all up to date with what’s going on at the festival and in the Bollocks to Poverty tent, which I’ve been warned gets pretty popular!

I will be tweeting the latest gossip and a ‘photo of the day’. I will also be filming mini Vlogs throughout the day, which will be uploaded to our Youtube page, covering all the events happening around the site (I’ve heard rumours of zorbing and sandcastle competitions), introducing you to our campaigners as well as following the launch of our big Summer campaign to get hunger back in the headlines in order to raise awareness that 1 billion people around the World are going hungry everyday.

We have some really exciting stuff planned for the festival - I won’t ruin the surprise for you all just yet so keep an eye out on here to find out all about it.

Queues outside the Bollocks to Poverty tent at Reading. Photo: Aubrey Wade / ActionAid

10 years ago hunger became big news when 192 countries made a pledge to halve hunger by 2015. But hunger is now at a record high. We think this is a scandal and we need you to help us put hunger back into the headlines

NME are supporting the campaign and they’ve helped us create our very own magazine – No More Hunger – to help us make hunger front page news.

A new government, new MPs and a UN summit in September where they’ll be reviewing the promise to halve hunger, means we have a great opportunity to get hunger back in the media, on politician’s minds and at the top of their ‘to do’ list.

Pose for a cover shot at festivals

In the ActionAid tent at Beach Break, Underage , Reading and Freeze festivals you can help put hunger in the headlines and we’ll put you on the front cover of NMH! Find out more

Ask our new government to make hunger a top story now!

We know everyone is having a hard time right now, that’s why ActionAid isn’t asking the UK government to give any more money. But we need them to make hunger a global priority so that hungry people can feed themselves.

Hunger facts:

• One billion people are hungry. This is more than the populations of USA, Canada and the European Union combined.
• Hunger kills one child every 10 seconds.
• The problem is worst in rural areas, home to 75 per cent of the world’s poor.
• Poor people in rural communities can feed themselves if they have access to land, seeds, tools and training in sustainable farming.

Have you seen this video yet? Its our first entry to the Work It! Competition. Young Sam here is applying to be our backstage reporter at this years Reading festival, with the enviable job of meeting bands and talking to them about our hunger campaign.

He's totally unchallenged at the moment, and there are only 7 weeks left in the competition, so if you fancy having a crack at The Best Job In The World(TM) you'd better get posting!

This summer ActionAid is going to be launching a big campaign about hunger. We've talked about this issue quite a lot on this blog, but its worth re-iterating why this is such a huge and urgent problem.

- 1 billion people are currently going hungry. That's a sixth of the world's population.
-  Hunger is the number one risk to health worldwide – greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
- Hunger kills 3.5 million children every year.  That's one every 10 seconds.

We'll be discussing more about this issue - why we're bringing it up now, what we need to do and how you can get involved - next week, so check back then. For now, while we're gearing up for the campaign launch, we're looking for contributions from a few of you creative minded types, who feel as outraged as we do about this horrific situation.   

Artists

We need new submissions for our lovely website banner. The illustrated banner you can see on this page runs across the whole youth channel. Each one is themed around areas of ActionAid's work, and we want some hunger ones which will help to convey the injustice of a world where 1 in 6 of us doesn't get enough to eat. If you're interested you can get the full brief by emailing bollocks@actionaid.org and you can find out more by reading the artists blogs here.

Music lovers

Fans of the site will know that we have great celebrity playlists on our music shop that communicate issues ActionAid works on. We're putting together a hunger themed playlist based on your suggestions; we've had some awesome choices already, but we need more. If you have ideas, post them as a comment below or on our facebook page. The playlist will go up next week and we'll let you know if your song gets picked.

Of course the big prize this summer is the chance to come backstage at Reading festival and talk to bands about the hunger campaign. If you haven't seen the Work It! competition yet, check it out here.

Women from Kacho village and Wahi Pani participate in a HungerFREE march organised by ActionAid's partner in Johi. ©ActionAid

If you read Kerstin's blog yesterday you would already know about the very exciting job we're currently recruiting for. If you haven't, what you waiting for? Go read it! Well after you've read mine maybe…

That's right we are now recruiting for a Backstage Reporter to come and interview bands at Reading Festival. Awesome hey!? To apply you have to go along the usual route of filling in a very simple application form and then submitting a video via you tube (Simples!) We've already had someone really quick of the mark. Want to see how it's done? Well check out Sam's application video.

Think Sam's perfect for the job? Give him a thumbs up. If you think you can do better then get recording your own film now. Don't worry we're not looking for the next Tarantino or Spielberg (but I personally would love to see an entry in the style of Tarantino -actually think of the blood! mmm maybe not!) Any short film will do. Be it on camcorder, iphone or that dodgy mobile you haven't got round to replacing. We're not fussy. Although saying that I did try and apply but because I get a bit flustered around celebs I was quickly rejected. Nothing to do with that restraining order I have… (only joking ActionAid boss!)

Find out more and enter here.

If you fancy yourself more as a campaigner and would like to join us in the campaign against hunger at Reading then find out how you could join us here. As you can imagine places are like gold dust. We offer places to those who have really shown their support and have put on a Bollocks to Poverty tour event, jumped out of a plane or gone to extra lengths to prove that they really should come to Reading. If you haven't got round to doing any of this yet then don't worry, it's not too late. Find out how you can get involved here.

Now what you waiting for? Go upload a video!

When I was at university I went to see a careers advisor, and before I went I wrote a list of things I'd like to get from my dream job. The chance to go to gigs for free featured pretty heavily. Getting drunk with famous people was number two. And, on the top spot was that the job had to do something about the two greatest problems of our time - global poverty and climate change.

I might not have got everything I wanted off the list, but working here at ActionAid has meant that I got what I most wanted; a job that supports people fighting their way out of poverty. But today we're launching a competition for a truly dream job, one that if I'd seen it would have blown my little list out of the water.  

We're looking for a backstage festival reporter to join our team. The job is to meet celebrities - mainly bands - backstage at Reading festival, chat to them about ActionAid's work, our big hunger campaign (more on that soon), and get them to pose for a few photos.

This is a money can't buy prize, unlike anything else you'll find. If you win you'll not only get to have a fantastic time at Reading for free, but you'll gain invaluable experience at the front line of charity campaigning. You'll learn about PR, about live blogging for a website, and about how the unique event that is the ActionAid Reading tent is put together and run - all of this will look amazing on your CV. Bollocks to Poverty benefits massively from the support of bands, so while it sounds like a riot, this is also a really important role. 

So how can you put yourself forwards for this, you ask? Well first get onto the competition page, read the full description and the terms and conditions.

We want video entries that showcase your suitability for the job. Film them, get them up on YouTube and get your friends to watch / vote / rate / comment on them. 

You can read a blog by last years winner Gavin, which gives you an idea of what you'd be in for if you won. Having Gavin on the team was a huge help, and I won't soon forget the image of him spotting Alexa Chung in the distance and sprinting accross a field, camera phone in one hand, giant cardboard strawberry in the other. He was totally charming by the time he got to her of course, and managed to get this photo for our climate change campaign!

I'm looking forward to seeing what everybody comes up with. This is going to be fun!

p.s. Just to clarify, despite what I wrote in my list of requirements for a dream job, YOU WILL NOT GET DRUNK WITH THE CELEBRITIES. You will be meeting them in a very professional manor. We just don't advocate that sort of thing, its very obviously a bad idea, and its just plain bound to go wrong.