Don't Stop Giving

Hello! We are Don’t Stop Giving. We are a fan run initiative dedicated to giving back to the members of 5 Seconds of Summer. Whether it be via sending a nice tweet their way or raising money for charity for their birthdays, we hope that we can attempt to give back as much to the boys as they give to and for us. In “Don’t Stop Giving” we hope that you see more than just a name or a song reference (or a connotatively pushy phrase), we hope that “Don’t Stop Giving” inspires you to truly never stop giving. Never stop giving your kindness, your energy, your time, your love, your care, and your effort. Never deprive the world of the unique goodness that only you can bring to it just by being you and by offering a helping hand. Never stop lending your passion and devotion to the things and people that make you happy to be alive. Please don’t stop giving. -DSG Team Twitter: @dontstopgiving5 IG: @dontstopgiving Email: [email protected]

[bri3395]

ashtonirwin: The momentary flame of my youth will burn out before I know it. So will yours, take a moment to love that you are young, take a moment to love that you’re alive. Images taken with Film camera by the wonderful @kaykay

[bri3395]

philippplein: NEW YORK FALL/WINTER 2019 - PHILIPP PLEIN ™️ - SPACE COWBOY

[bbycal]

he is fucking beautiful wtf

[hufflepuffleia]

I just hope 5sos is creating their next album at a good pace for them so they can stay mentally healthy and happy and still put out another beautiful album

[dont-stop-giving]

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Hi Friends!

       With Calum’s birthday fast approaching, we are officially nearing the end of our charity drive for him! Honestly, it’s a bit bittersweet; this is almost all we’ve been thinking about and working on for the few months! With that having been said, we hope that we can end this drive with a bang and make him (and you guys) proud!

       So, as a final hurrah, we’re holding another giveaway! As always, these giveaways are ultimately a way for us to do our best to give back to you guys; you’ve given us so much kindness and love and care and we cannot even begin to fathom how lucky we are to have your support. All of your giving inspires us to give and we hope that we can continue paying it forward to all of you as much as possible. Thank you for generously giving so, so much to us. We appreciate y’all to no end.

       For this giveaway, there will be FOUR WINNERS and some more super awesome prizes! Check the prizes and how to enter below the cut!

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[dont-stop-giving]

Hey Guys!  It’s FINALLY that time!!! We’re announcing the winners! We are SUPER excited for you guys and we have our fingers and toes crossed for all of you! Just as a reminder, the name entries were an amalgamation of those that have donated to our JustGiving drive and participated in our playlist tag. To make everything fair, we used this website to randomize our list of entries and this random generator to choose winners. IMPORTANT: WINNERS HAVE ALL BEEN CONTACTED. IF WE DO NOT HEAR FROM YOU WITHIN 48 HOURS, WE WILL BE CHOOSING NEW WINNERS. The anticipation is killing us, so let’s just get started! Winners below the cut!

4th Prize Winner Is...

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Melanie!!!

Melanie has officially donated to all four of our drives! We couldn’t be more grateful to have her on our side! Having gotten to know her over the course of all of our drives has been an honor; she is such a kind soul we’re so happy to be able to thank her in this way. We appreciate her so, so much!

3rd Prize Winner Is...

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Trish!!!

Another lovely person that has been involved in our drives from the early beginnings of them! Trish is truly such a delight and we are so, so happy to have her involved in this fandom; she makes everything better! We’re excited just to know her! 2nd Prize Winner Is...

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Rachel!!!

What a sweetheart! We’re so grateful to have her support and care! We appreciate all the light she brings to this fandom and we’re so glad that she has decided to share some of that light with us. 

1st Prize Winner Is...

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Alicia!!! Another angel! She has participated in all of our drives and we are very thankful to have her support! We also would like to mention that she is pretty great at making playlists as well! We are incredibly grateful for her support and we’re even more grateful to know her. She is wonderful. 

AS MENTIONED ABOVE, WINNERS HAVE ALL BEEN CONTACTED. IF WE DO NOT HEAR FROM YOU WITHIN 48 HOURS, WE WILL BE CHOOSING NEW WINNERS.

Finally, we just wanna say thank you to everyone, for you all participated to some extent. We wouldn’t have gotten off the ground if it weren’t for all of the care and love you all have given us and we are so damn thankful for all of you. We respect and appreciate whatever type of giving you’ve so kindly shared with us and we hope that we can continue getting to know you guys and, hopefully, we can make y’all proud! Thank you so much. We love you all.

[dont-stop-giving]

Hey Friends!   You guys have helped us raise $200.77 for Calum’s Drive/the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)!   We may not have reached our goal, but we are still immensely proud of what we’ve all accomplished; raising over two hundred dollars for a very worthy cause is nothing to sneeze at! We know we’re getting repetitive when we say that we couldn’t have done this without you guys, but truly, we really couldn’t have done it without any of you! We hope that sentiment hasn’t lost its meaning; you guys are the entire reason that this project is where it is today and we don’t ever wanna stop reminding you of that.   We suppose all of this probably sounds like repetition at this point, but we really want to make sure you guys see the impact that you have, not only as fans of 5SOS and the influence you all have on musical charts and the like, but also the impact you have just by being kind, caring human beings. Just by being yourself, you make a difference. Simply by deciding to be a little nicer than you may be currently feeling, just by wanting to give as much effort as possible, just by wanting to know more about a cause and how to help, by giving your time, your care, your love, your support, and if possible, whatever money you can spare, you are making a difference.   We are so, so, SO incredibly happy to have been able to share this experience with you guys. Honestly, you’ve actually made all of this so much more fun! All of you have brought such positivity and light to us and we couldn’t be more grateful for that. We want fandom to be a positive, supportive, and kind space for everyone and we’re glad that you’ve all really taken that in stride. It’s obvious that we can all really make some magic when we unite as a group!   Thank you, guys, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you. Thank you for bringing exposure to our drives in whichever way that came about for you. Thank you for caring about what we were doing. Thank you for supporting what we were doing. Thank you for sending us words of encouragement. Thank you for responding to our messages. Thank you for making your own posts about our drives. Thank you for sharing in our triumphs. Thank you for being fans of the boys. Thank you for participating in our playlist tag. Thank you for donating to our drive if you were able to. Thank you for giving your time, effort, and love to us and our cause. Thank you so much. Please don’t ever stop giving.  We hope Cal is enjoying his birthday and having the best fucking time ever! He is so, so, so, so incredibly loved, respected, and cared about and we hope that he feels that always and feels it doubly today. We hope that this drive and what you all have helped us do with it can make him smile :) Love Y’all, DSG Team

P.S. The giveaway we have going on right now is still happening! It ends on February 1st, so if you still wanna participate, you can! Calum’s JustGiving page is staying up, so you can definitely still donate to it!

Calum’s Donation Page Michael’s Donation Page Ash’s Donation Page Luke’s Donation Page

The Playlist Tag

Twitter, Instagram, Spotify, 8tracks, YouTube

[dont-stop-giving]

Hey Friends!   You guys have helped us raise $200.77 for Calum’s Drive/the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)!   We may not have reached our goal, but we are still immensely proud of what we’ve all accomplished; raising over two hundred dollars for a very worthy cause is nothing to sneeze at! We know we’re getting repetitive when we say that we couldn’t have done this without you guys, but truly, we really couldn’t have done it without any of you! We hope that sentiment hasn’t lost its meaning; you guys are the entire reason that this project is where it is today and we don’t ever wanna stop reminding you of that.   We suppose all of this probably sounds like repetition at this point, but we really want to make sure you guys see the impact that you have, not only as fans of 5SOS and the influence you all have on musical charts and the like, but also the impact you have just by being kind, caring human beings. Just by being yourself, you make a difference. Simply by deciding to be a little nicer than you may be currently feeling, just by wanting to give as much effort as possible, just by wanting to know more about a cause and how to help, by giving your time, your care, your love, your support, and if possible, whatever money you can spare, you are making a difference.   We are so, so, SO incredibly happy to have been able to share this experience with you guys. Honestly, you’ve actually made all of this so much more fun! All of you have brought such positivity and light to us and we couldn’t be more grateful for that. We want fandom to be a positive, supportive, and kind space for everyone and we’re glad that you’ve all really taken that in stride. It’s obvious that we can all really make some magic when we unite as a group!   Thank you, guys, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you. Thank you for bringing exposure to our drives in whichever way that came about for you. Thank you for caring about what we were doing. Thank you for supporting what we were doing. Thank you for sending us words of encouragement. Thank you for responding to our messages. Thank you for making your own posts about our drives. Thank you for sharing in our triumphs. Thank you for being fans of the boys. Thank you for participating in our playlist tag. Thank you for donating to our drive if you were able to. Thank you for giving your time, effort, and love to us and our cause. Thank you so much. Please don’t ever stop giving.  We hope Cal is enjoying his birthday and having the best fucking time ever! He is so, so, so, so incredibly loved, respected, and cared about and we hope that he feels that always and feels it doubly today. We hope that this drive and what you all have helped us do with it can make him smile :) Love Y’all, DSG Team

P.S. The giveaway we have going on right now is still happening! It ends on February 1st, so if you still wanna participate, you can! Calum’s JustGiving page is staying up, so you can definitely still donate to it!

Calum’s Donation Page Michael’s Donation Page Ash’s Donation Page Luke’s Donation Page

The Playlist Tag

Twitter, Instagram, Spotify, 8tracks, YouTube

[poppedpins]

not to be dramatic but i hope calum has the greatest fuckin birthday, that is all

[notreallycalum]

cant believe my boy is already 9 im emo

[itsmukedits]

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don’t repost without credits!

[ganond1lf]

look a t h i m A W

[notreallycalum]

the world was blessed when you came, happy birthday, my favorite bean ✨

[colourfulcalum]

Happy 23rd birthday, Calum Thomas Hood!

[bri3395]

andydeluca: it is your birthday.

[allmyfavthingsssss]

happy birthday to this gorgeous boy ❤

[bri3395]

@iHeartRadio: Happy Birthday to this qt, @Calum5SOS! 🖤

[bri3395]

michaelclifford: forever through it all. happy birthday

[dont-stop-giving]

Hey guys!

CALUM’S DRIVE ENDS TOMORROW, JANUARY 25TH (AND OUR FAVORITE BASS PLAYER TURNS 23!!!)

Currently, you’ve all helped us raise $200.77 for Calum’s Drive/American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).

And don’t forget! We’ve got one last giveaway going for Cal! The giveaway ends February 1st!

And just to reiterate a belief that we hold very nearly and dearly to our hearts; monetary donations aren’t everything. Yes, we appreciate them a ton. Yes, we ultimately are trying to raise as much as we can for charity. We know, we know, we know. We understand the slight bit of hypocrisy of that statement. However, we didn’t start these drives up just to try and leech money from y’all and fuck off until it’s time to do it all over again. We genuinely want you guys to know that whatever you’re able to do for us and our boys is appreciated. From reblogging, retweeting, and liking, to making posts and telling your friends and spreading the word, and every single thing in between, sideways, and all around, we appreciate it. It matters. It’s important. It’s all important. Hell, even if all you’ve ever done is give a shit about what we’re doing, we appreciate it. We do. You’re making a difference. Don’t you dare ever think that caring and trying don’t matter because they always, always do. Your care matters. You matter. And, please don’t stop giving (your time, effort, love, and care), DSG Team Calum’s Donation Page Michael’s Donation Page Ash’s Donation Page Luke’s Donation Page The Playlist TagTwitter, Instagram, Spotify, 8tracks, YouTube