British Nationals are encouraged now to sign up to LOCATE.

LOCATE is a new online service that allows British consular officials to contact you in the event of any incident abroad (e.g. earthquake, tsunami, avian/swine flu), and also allows family members and friends back home to contact you and know you are safe. It takes only two minutes to sign up to LOCATE, and doing so improves the FCO's ability to provide help in crisis situations and reduce delay and worry in times of stress for family and friends at home. Click here to register, and for more on LOCATE, click here.

This Summer, Matt Simmons (the Head of Lower School at Harrow International School of Beijing) will be taking up the Gobi Challenge, and you can sponsor him!

To complete the Gobi Challenge, competitors will race approximately 230 kilometres on foot over the period of a week, while carrying food, provisions and mandatory safety gear. The last day is a ‘sprint’ finish, so the distance equates to a marathon per day! Matt will be completing the challenge to raise funds for The Blue Sky Healing Home based in Beijing. Please click Read the Full Story below for more...

CF & foneVillage partners, Country Holidays are running special holiday cruises down the Yangtze River from now until August.

Both 4-day & 5-day trips are available, on board the most exclusive boat on the river (The Yangzi Explorer) and takes in the famous scenery of the Three Gorges region as well as the man-made marvel that is the Three Gorges Dam. Use your foneVillage ClubFootball membership to enjoy a 3% discount! For more information, including a full itinerary please click on the links above to visit to visit the Country Holidays website for more info including detailed itineraries!

This summer sees the 2009 Beijing International Football Festival hit the city with both the 2009 Barclays Asia Trophy & the 2009 TIM Italian Super Cup coming to town.

ClubFootball can take your order now for tickets for the Italian Super Cup which will be staged at the The Bird's Nest and promises to be a stunning event. The match will see Serie A champions Internazionale (Inter Milan) face off against Italian cup winners Lazio on 8th August, the 1-year anniversary of the opening of the Olympic Games. Please read the full story for more info.

CF & foneVillage invite you to attend the First Quarterly CFO Roundtable: Risk Management During Periods of High Volatility on Thursday 25 June at the Kerry Centre Hotel.

The event brings together ten of the brightest risk management experts to speak on a variety of subjects ranging from how the investment community assesses risk to how to identify both financial and operational risk and how to mitigate all forms of risk. CF & foneVillage members can participate at preferential rates. For more information read the full story or click here.

The next two weeks will see three football fundraisers to support members of our community that have sustained serious injury in recent weeks and who need a helping hand.

Two fundraisers are organized by the good folks at Sexy FC to help player and CF referee Nasir who sustained a badly broken arm while turning out for the pink army. The third is staged by the mighty Barbarians to help David Vaughan who suffered a broken kneecap in 3 places whilst turning out against IFFC Champions L'Equipe. For more info on what promise to be seriously fun events please read the full story.