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Bebside School & the African Workshop
Two bits of great news this week: First, the African Workshop is now a fully registered UK charity (number 1137427). And the second is a lovely bit of news coverage about the Bebside Middle School shipment.
Charity status
We’ve got charity status!
When another email arrived from the Charity Commission I thought they wanted more explanations, to sift deeper into the bank accounts, or that I’d missed a line on a form. Maybe I should have paid a lawyer, I thought. But the only person I knew who’d done that had been ripped off, [...]
School on the move
Press release:
A class of middle school children have donated their entire school to our charity.
Chairs, desks, musical instruments and classroom supplies for up to 500 pupils are on their way to the African Workshop’s community centre in Mali thanks to the efforts of pupils at Bebside Middle School, in Blyth, Northumberland.
The youngsters and their teachers [...]
Demon Barbers
A huge thank you to the amazing Demon Barbers! This incredible band played a pair of gig to promote their new album – The Adventures of Captain Ward – and donated all their profits to the African Workshop. Added to a raffle on the night they collected over £550.
The London gig was brilliant. The Demons [...]
Football – Goooaaaaallllll!
The World Cup is in Africa! Football fever is gripping an already football mad continent, and the kids at the African Workshop love to play…
Footballs are expensive in Mali, but we have four teams over there playing at any opportunity they can get. They use bundles of bags and plastic if they have to, plastic [...]