Where the money goes.
Last October we told you that how 50% of the £14,000 profit from July’s Fair on Moormead was distributed between the four local schools. We asked you to nominate local charities who you thought might be deserving of sharing the remaining £7000.
Seven charities were nominated and their representatives came to our January committee meeting to tell us about their work. I'm sure you'll appreciate that we didn’t reach our decision easily as there was no organisation that we felt didn't have a good reason to receive some of the £7000 we had available. We decided that three of the seven would be the main beneficiaries, but they were all deserving of some support.
Here’s how the money from 2009 has been distributed.
£2,144 Friends
of Crofters
£2,063 Whitton
Social Centre
£1,942 Homelink
£300 Off
the Record
£250 Richmond
Welcare
£200 Me
Too & Co
£150 Marble
Hill Playcentres
Thank you all very much for making this possible with by your continuing and generous support of the St Margarets Fair, which this year will be on Saturday the 10th of July.
The policy of the present Fair Committee is to divide the year’s proceeds, giving half to our four local schools Orleans Park, St Stephens, St Marys and Orleans Infants, and the other half to charities in need, a choice being made each autumn from applicants in St Margarets and the surrounding area.
In addition, the Fair has given other small donations of up to
£100 every year. Annual donations go to Radio
West Middlesex and Marble Hill Play
Centres.
The Annual Christmas
Dinner for local senior citizens at the Turks Head is
fully financed by the Fair.
This is a list of the main beneficiaries from the past years:
| 2009 | Friends of Crofters,
Whitton
Social Centre, Homelink, Off the Record, Richmond Welcare, Me Too & Co, Marble Hill Playcentres. |
| 2008 | River Thames Boat Project, Environment Trust for Richmond upon Thames, Homelink |
| 2007 | Heatham House, River Thames Boat Project, South West London Alzheimer's Society, Marble Hill Playcentres |
| 2006 | The money was held back towards the refurbishment of the Pavilion on Moormead |
| 2005 | Richmond Carers Centre, Crofters, the Richmond-upon-Thames Talking Newspaper for the Blind |
| 2004 | Home-Start Richmond, Environment Trust
for Richmond upon Thames, Richmond-upon-Thames Welcare, River Thames Boat Project, Marble Hill Playcentres |
| 2003 | Richmond Crossroads Care, Richmond Advocacy |
| 2002 | Marble Hill Play Centres, Homes for Life |
| 2001 | Marble Hill Play Centres |
| 2000 | Homelink |
| 1999 | Princess Alice Hospice |
| 1998 | HANDS |
| 1997 | Off the Record, Radio West Middlesex |
| 1996 | Roy Kinnear Trust, National Asthma Campaign |
| 1995 | Shooting Star Trust, Action Aid, SPEAR |
| 1994 | ?? - can anyone remember? |
| 1993 | Richmond Homes for Life Trust |
| 1992 | The Children’s Society, Crisis in Africa |
