An urgent appeal to the residents of Kingston and friends of SWC Save The World Club is a local registered charity. We specialise in turning the eyesores of our town into beautiful pieces of art with mosaic murals to cover graffiti. We work with thousands of local people and help teach artistic and civic appreciation. We have worked with young offenders, school groups and workplace teams. We help bring a sense of community ownership into our town, and we know by your letters and comments that it is appreciated and valued, thank you. Our award-winning work has upgraded many areas, including Kingston station, Elm Road playground, Mount Primary School, Canbury Passage, Kingsnympton and Cambridge estates, Castle Street in central Kingston. Residents love our work. Graffiti in Kingston is much less visible. Young people who work with us have a huge sense of pride in their neighbourhood and many will never start graffiti. But we just can’t do it alone. We absolutely need your help. Please consider a donation towards our anti-graffiti programme, towards materials and concrete, for our core costs. The local council RBK, and several individuals support our charity enormously but rising costs and more complicated mosaic art projects mean we are struggling to keep afloat. Grants from funding bodies like the Home Office are not available in a “wealthy” area like Kingston upon Thames and yet we work with many young people who have very little access to other activities to keep them off the streets. We have to work very hard indeed to raise every penny to run our club and programmes. PLEASE HELP US NOW – BE PART OF THE SOLUTION At present we are raising money towards our core costs to get a proper office, completion of Canbury Passage and to buy a new vehicle for the Professor Kayoss travelling show. We have also been collecting for the refurbishment of the Kingston Welsh Hall. We just won’t survive without the support of the community in Kingston. It really is up to people like you to help, residents, parents, friends and neighbours. You are our community. Please consider helping our charity. Any amount, however small, is much appreciated. Thank you. From the trustees, staff and volunteers of Save The World Club October 2005 donate via Justgiving £1 buys 100 glass beads for a mosaic; £10 buys a pair of nippers to cut tiles; £198 allows us to take a minibus of kids to the seaside for the day; £272 funds welfare of 50 children for a week who would otherwise not get a summer holiday. Would you like to Volunteer? If you would like to volunteer at the Save The World Club, perhaps as a mosaic artist or in the office, please contact: Bernadette Vallely Kingston Environment Centre Fairfield East, Kingston KT1 2PT United Kingdom Phone: +44 (0) 20 8974 8608 Email: info@savetheworldclub.org Download the Save The World Club volunteers' handbook. For more information on our volunteer scheme. Volunteering is an excellent way of gaining new skills and gaining references.