Tag: Surplus Funds

  • QPARA agrees £1000 donations to seven groups supporting the local community

    At our meeting on Thursday night we agreed to donations of £1,000 each to seven local groups, organisations & charities.

    Here is the list of groups with links to their websites:

    1. Ark Franklin Primary Academy – Building raised timber planting boxes in the school garden

    2. Brent Centre for Young People  – Cost for 2 young people to undergo Adolescent Exploratory Therapy

    3. Friends of Salusbury School – Providing more green and Astroturf areas in the playground

    4. Queen’s Park Junior Singers – Contributing towards cost of making an audio recording of The Happy Prince

    5. Real Action – Teacher training costs (1 teacher) to give Butterfly Literacy training to volunteers

    6. Salusbury World – Mini bus hire & petrol for the annual outing and contribution towards the Winter party for 90 refugee children

    7. Shakespeare in the Squares – towards the production costs of performing Much Ado About Nothing in Queen’s Park in Summer 2016

    QPARA is a not for profit organisation. If, at the end of each financial year there are surplus funds, we invite applications for donations from these from local charities, groups and not for profit organisations in line with our aims to support the local community.

  • QPARA donates £1,000 to Salusbury World

    At the March meeting, members voted to use £1,000 of the Association’s funds to support local children.

    Salusbury World Logo

    The Salusbury World charity subsidises the residential trips that Salusbury Primary School organises each year for those families that cannot afford the cost. It also organises a winter party for refugee children, buying presents for all of those children who would not normally receive gifts at that time of year.

    QPARA sets aside a sum of money at the AGM each year and invites charities or similar not-for-profit organisations, that have a clear connection to the area, to apply for one-off donations. These are decided on at the March meeting.