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An international campaign is encouraging us to switch off our TV sets, but what would we do instead?
The TV Turnoff Week was first launched in America in 1994, with the aim of encouraging children and adults to watch less television and so have more time for a healthier life and more community participation.
Support for the idea has grown over the years and it's now popular amongst international activists with opinions which vary in extremity over how much television, if any, we should watch, and what we might do instead with our time.
We are sure that there are plenty of opportunities and ideas in the voluntary and community sector for alternatives and so we're hoping to feature some of them on our home page during the week. You might suggest volunteering schemes, fundraising ventures, sporting activities, 'zocalo' (a Mexican term for a town square) events where people are asked to turn off their televisions, go outside and talk to their neighbours ... you tell us!
Please let us know what you'd do with your time if you had the choice, either by email, by submitting a news item or by voting in our online poll. And if you already have an event planned for the week, please let us know so we can feature it here too.
For more background on the ideas behind the week and the organisations involved, look at:
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