Other – Queen’s Park Area Residents’ Association https://www.qpark.org.uk The Website of the Queen's Park Area Residents' Association Thu, 28 Dec 2023 11:16:01 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.qpark.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/leaves.jpg?fit=32%2C30&ssl=1 Other – Queen’s Park Area Residents’ Association https://www.qpark.org.uk 32 32 87759958 Salusbury World Crowdfunder – Result https://www.qpark.org.uk/salusbury-world-crowdfunder/ Thu, 23 Nov 2023 17:36:30 +0000 https://www.qpark.org.uk/?p=10454

Salusbury World is a registered charity supporting refugee and migrant children, young people and families rebuild hopeful, fulfilling lives in London. They started work in Brent in 1999. 

They provide immediate crisis support – through basics like food parcels and phone cards, and help with welfare benefits, immigration issues and homelessness – and long-term support so refugees and asylum-seekers develop the skills and confidence to thrive in London. Their support is personalised and integrated. They also offer an advice service, after-school and homework clubs, educational mentoring for teenagers, holiday programmes and a women’s project. 

Salusbury World has reached something of a pinch point with an exponential rise in the demand for their services at a time of serious financial constraint and is in danger of closure in 2024 without your generous support.

The Crowdfunder is now over. 

You can go to https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-refugees-now to see the result.

Their website is at https://salusburyworld.org.uk/ . You can get information about their activities and how you can support them.

]]> 10454 Call for food donations for local Christmas deliveries https://www.qpark.org.uk/call-for-food-donations-for-local-christmas-deliveries-bit-ly-giftmeal/ Fri, 18 Dec 2020 19:23:38 +0000 http://www.qpark.org.uk/?p=8300

A call out for food donations – a few of the local initiatives are short of donations over the next two weeks, partly because schools have broken up and collections are no longer possible. They are very keen to collect as much pasta, rice, tuna, tinned tomatoes, fruit and veg as possible over the weekend both for parcels on Monday and to share with the Granville for their midweek deliveries. Home pick-up of donations is possible and we will also be around the Farmers Market and 22 Lonsdale Rd on Sunday. More info at bit.ly/helpourhungry  

]]> 8300 Queen’s Park’s Co-op has now opened. Kilburn Times article gives information about support given to local community groups if you join and spend https://www.qpark.org.uk/queens-parks-co-op-has-now-opened-kilburn-times-article-gives-information-about-support-given-to-local-community-groups-if-you-join-and-spend/ Fri, 25 Jan 2019 14:00:21 +0000 http://www.qpark.org.uk/?p=7572 https://www.kilburntimes.co.uk/news/co-op-opening-in-queen-s-park-1-5862364

]]> 7572 Groups report back on donations from QPARA https://www.qpark.org.uk/groups-report-back-on-donations-from-qpara/ Wed, 09 May 2018 18:23:30 +0000 http://www.qpark.org.uk/?p=7267 Mike Cantor reported back to the April monthly meeting on how the donations made by QPARA in 2017 had been spent. In March 2017 we agreed donations of £1,000 to each of the following groups with a connection to the Queen’s Park area:

Brent Action for Refugees to fund tea/social evenings for Syrian refugees in Brent

Brent Centre for Young People to give Adolescent Exploratory Therapy to two young people who live in the Queen’s Park area

Laurence’s Larder to provide food, clothing, washing and drying facilities to refugee asylum seekers in Brent

Our Global School to cover the cost of transporting volunteer school students from Salusbury School and Queen’s Park Community School to a township school in Kayamandi, South Africa

The Promise Foundation to help fund a monthly Skills Club, based in the Queen’s Park Community School to help tackle educational disadvantage in Brent

Salusbury World to help with the funding of a Winter Party for refugee children and to help fund excursions for refugee women and children

Shakespeare in the Squares to help with the costs of a production of Romeo and Juliet in Queen’s Park on 24th June.

Each group provided Mike with a report on how they had used the donations. These can been viewed by clicking here and here.

 

]]> 7267 Would you like to help QPARA? https://www.qpark.org.uk/would-you-like-to-help-qpara/ Sun, 05 Nov 2017 09:55:48 +0000 http://www.qpark.org.uk/?p=7060 If you would like to become more involved our work to make the Queen’s Park area an even better place than it already is, we would love to see you at our Annual General Meeting (AGM).

  • Meet your neighbours and mingle over a drink and some food before the meeting starts.  
  • Put yourself forward to help out in any way that you can, by volunteering practical help, joining action groups, or helping to running our events or meetings.

You can join the Association at the AGM, but you are also welcome to come as a guest.

We look forward to welcoming you on Thursday.

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