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This month's theme at British Style Bloggers is A Cause For Christmas - and it's a theme of which I am especially proud. This festive season, BSB are asking our readers, members and writers to consider a charity or cause that they would like to donate some money or time to in order to spread a little more genuine festive spirit.

Whether or not you celebrate Christnas, or any other holiday, this month, I'm sure that you can agree with me when I say that Christmas has become overly commercialised. My younger brother started his Christmas shopping in July this year, for fear that he wouldn't have the time or money to get people the kinds of presents that he wanted to, and one of the major things I think I'm going to miss in my first year as a vegetarian is Christmas dinner.

From September, we have festive cheer and expectations forced  down our throats, and this month, BSB would like to ask you to consider the though that Christmas might be something more than that.

Each of our writers this month is writing whatever they like, to grab your attention, entertain, engage and amuse you - but at the bottom, they're posting a few words about their cause of choice. We're asking you to pledge a donation at the bottom of this post, to give to one of our chosen causes, or to a cause of your own.

Please, join us. Spread the word. Share some cheer. Christmas, in my opinion, must be something more. And yes, I did steal that line from Taylor Swift.

LoveLoveLove

- A -

My Cause this Christmas:

Neurocare is a charity very close to my heart. When my mother was twenty, she was involved in a near-fatal car accident, and it is probably because of the support of this charity that she has managed ot make as full as recovery as she has. Having spent six months in a coma, Neurocare helped rehabilitate her, and helped with her treatment. Specialising in brain injuries and neuroscience technology, Neurocare's work is vital to saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. http://www.neurocare.org.uk/