Recent updates

Listen to album sampler here!

An update for Life and Other Songs charity album

May 25 2017

You can hear excerpts of three of my favourite songs from the album. Two of the songs feature The Penny Brohn Community Choir so listen out for them! I would love your feedback. Please keep sharing and telling people about this project. Thank you so much!

https://soundcloud.com/sally-larkin/mrs-jones-company-3-song-album-sampler

Sunshine & delight

An update for A safe haven for refugee and asylum seeking children

May 25 2017

The sun shone on BRR’s little garden today and the children rushed outside to make the most of it. Difficult for members of staff to say thank you when presented with a plucked flower whilst simultaneously discouraging the three year old from picking any more! 

It’s always heartening to see a newcomer to the Early Years Project moving from shyness, even fear, to growing self confidence. Today two year old, Sayed, pulled out the box of wooden rails and worked out for himself how they joined together; then grinned with delight as he moved a train and its magnetically linked trucks over its little bridge.  

There was a fire drill this morning and the children were quickly and efficiently swept up and moved out. To most of them it was an additional moment of excitement; only one boy burst into tears and he was soon reassured by spotting his mum with the rest of BRR members and volunteers in the assembly point in the car park. 

How to fill a pot up

An update for A safe haven for refugee and asylum seeking children

May 23 2017

Thanks to your support 34 children were able to have fun in our Early Years Project last week. Please spread the word so that we can keep filling the pot and ensure that these children can keep having fun and others will benefit too.  Thank you!

SHORT FILM COMPETITION

An update for Outdoor Cinema in Teignmouth

May 22 2017

We are offering an opportunity for film makers to make a film to submit to our competition. Winners films will be chosen to play at the open air cinema at the Outdoor Cinema

see this link for details

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIRvKk6hdkA&feature=youtu.be

A MASSIVE THANK YOU TO YOU!

An update for 23 Free Birthday Cakes for 23 Orphaned Children

May 21 2017

WE did it! Thanks to you, we raised a whopping £1,719!! Thank you very much for pledging, sharing and writing about our campaign. It's been an amazing experience and we can't wait to share updates about how your support has enabled us to grow and continue giving free birthday cakes to orphaned children in Nigeria. 

The past few days have been pretty exciting. We gave a birthday cake to little J who'd just had a major stomach operation. Although he was tired, the cake made his day. His house mother wrote to us to say thank you and to let us know that "the cakes themselves are a big deal and genuinely make a difference, every child in this house looks in hope to the next cake. Hope is a very important thing." Thanks to you, we're going to keep giving hope to these children. God bless you! 

We also made our first wedding cake this weekend! What an epic adventure. Photo below :) 

Finally, we will be in touch in the coming weeks with details about how to claim your rewards (for those who selected rewards). In the meantime, we want to offer you all a lifetime 10% discount on any order you place with Good Cake Day. Simply mention the code CROWDFUNDME when you contact us to place an order. 

Once again, thank you for your support! Together, WE are Good Cake Day! 

Warm regards, 

Chinelo 

Fantastic first response!

An update for A safe haven for refugee and asylum seeking children

May 19 2017

In the two and a bit days since launching our campaign we've had over 60 people back us and raised over £2000. So we're 10% of the way there! 

Thank you for helping us get this far! 

Now the hardwork really starts - we need to keep the momentum up and reach out beyond our current friends and families. 

So, if you haven't already, please share your support for this project with your networks. 

A quick post on Facebook after work: 

"The Early Years project at Bristol Refugee Rights needs help to stay up and running. Please like, share and donate if you can: https://www.fundsurfer.com/refugeerights"

Or an email to your friends, or people you went to school with and haven't seen in years... 

"Hi 

The Bristol Refugee Rights Early Years Project provides a safe place for kids to play while their parents access ESOL, computer classes, advocacy services, or just have some time to themselves. But more than this it is a place for the children to develop, experience messy play, explore in the garden - things which are not possible in most asylum seeker accommodation - supported by experienced, specialist multi-lingual staff and volunteers. 

The project is facing the prospect of limiting it's services and needs to raise funds to stay open at current levels. 

The evidence says that the best way to support this kind of fundraising is to share by email, so even if you can't chip in at the moment please fwd this email on!

Find the crowdfunding campaign here: https://www.fundsurfer.com/refugeerights"

Thanks again - we've been blown away by your support!

Thank You

An update for Empower Youth Voices

May 19 2017

Happy Friday everyone!

As you know, the campaign came to an end at midnight on Wednesday, and although the green bar was not full, I actually exceeded my target thanks to a number of offline pledges.

I want to thank you all so much for your support throughout the 35 days - thank you for pledging, sharing the word, offering encouragement and everything else.  It genuinely means a lot and as I've said before, I could not have done it without you.

Your rewards will be coming over the course of the next few months, so I hope you're excited for those.  Also, keep looking out for more great things coming up for Young People Insight over the course of the year and please come down to one of our events if you can, I would love to have you there.

Have a good weekend and thank you again.

Please please pleease please help us reach target!

An update for 23 Free Birthday Cakes for 23 Orphaned Children

May 17 2017

Thank you so much for your support!  Words can't express how grateful we are to you for getting us this far in our campaign:)

We now have less than 3 hours to go before our crowdfunding campaign ends but we have £461 to left to hit target. Would you please please please consider increasing your pledge and or sharing with a friend? It's the final cuntdown and we believe together we can do this. 

Thank you!!!! 

Amazing support so far!

An update for Life and Other Songs charity album

May 17 2017

Wow - I am delighted with the support the project is getting. I will get some album samplers up on the page asap. In the studio, it's coming together and the tracks are sounding great.

It's the Final Day!

An update for Empower Youth Voices

May 17 2017

Hello beautiful people!

Can you believe that it's the final day of the Empower Youth Voices campagin?  After 35 days, the campaign will come to an end at midnight, although the hard work will still continue.  

I want to take this time to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for supporting and pledging to my platform - Young People Insight is my baby and I know that it can make a real difference in the lives of young people.

Until midnight comes, I just want to ask one more thing from you please.  Can you help me to get #PledgeAPound trending on Twitter, as 500 people pledging £1 to my campaign will help me reach my target.  I think we can do it, so please get behind #PledgeAPound and use the link to the campaign page.

Thank you again and lots of love to you all.