Record audience packs the Memorial Hall
Charlbury Refugee Action Group held a record-breaking concert on Sunday, and we are very grateful to everyone who came and shared the recital by Margaret Fingerhut, a world-famous pianist who gave her time and prowess with a barnstorming performance for such a good cause. The audience was a CRAG record of 152.
The total raised was about £1600 which will go to the charity Help Refugees. Our latest online fundraiser is at mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/charlburyrefugee if you wish to add a donation yourself.
To complete the record: our autumn concerts, the Art Café, Churches Together, the Quakers and personal donations raised £5040 in all.
And where does it all go? Since October we have given a further £1500 to Help Refugees (much of whose work is in Greece), £2500 to the Help Refugees/Refugee Community Kitchen campaign (providing clothing and hot meals for people - mostly kids - still sleeping rough around Calais and in Paris), and £771 to Lighthouse Relief who provide welfare services for refugees landing from boats on the Greek island of Lesvos.
Moreover, as a result of our appeals, especially our 'Keep a Place at Your Table' Christmas campaign, individuals have donated a further astonishing £2510, plus gift aid, on CRAG's fundraising pages, where the money goes direct to the charities we support and not through our books - and donors can add gift aid. A number of the donors remain anonymous and also hide the amount they give: we only know the grand total.
"On behalf of the recipients, we say thank you to so many thoughtful and loving people."
Jon Carpenter · Mon 15 Jan 2018, 16:17 · Link