There's a plenty of different "sober Octobers" and stuff like that. But why not take a little Karel-ian approach and twist it inside out? Why not put the pleasant and the useful together? Why not drink for good for once? And that's how Booze For Good was born! Here's my promise - for each standard UK unit of alcohol I drink during November, I donate £1. Simples!

This is the second year I'm doing this, after some decent success in 2019.

I was a bit torn between a few benefactors of this activity. In the end, I came to this scheme:

All the donations from this page will go to Wikimedia Foundation, because Wikipedia (+family) are a great source of information and knowledge and I believe that education is one of the greatest ways out of poverty. And that (education, not poverty) is what the Wiki project and foundation can provide to anyone in the world with even the most basic Internet connection, at negligible price compared to "standard" tuition. As the Czech writer J. Kulhanek said in the voice of an enlightened medieval king, "wisdom melts fears and a desire for knowledge prevents darkness from spoiling the mind" (the poor translation is my own).

All the money collected via my £1/unit pledge I will donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, because they are some of the few people thanks to whom our digital selves have right similar to our physical ones (or any at all!) Be it freedom of speech, right to privacy, or one of the many other liberties which governments are all too keen to take away, EFF might be their most important defender.

Note: If you don't know, a standard UK alcohol unit is defined as 1 litre times 1% concentration by volume. So e.g. 500ml can of 5% beer is 2.5 units, while 0.7l bottle of 10% wine is 7 units. Simples!