£1000 – Queen’s Park Area Residents’ Association https://www.qpark.org.uk The Website of the Queen's Park Area Residents' Association Wed, 09 May 2018 18:25:25 +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 £1000 – Queen’s Park Area Residents’ Association https://www.qpark.org.uk 32 32 87759958 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.

 

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