Brent Centre for Young People – Queen’s Park Area Residents’ Association

Once again QPARA agrees £1,000 donations to groups supporting the local community

msnorbury — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 11:33:11 +0000

At our March monthly meeting, 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 help help 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.

QPARA is a not for profit organisation. If, at the end of each financial year there are surplus funds, we invite applications for donations for these from local charities, groups and not for profit organisations in line with our aims to support the local community. The maximum amount for a single donation is £1,000.

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

msnorbury — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 21:06:17 +0000

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.