Welcome to our Summer 2016 Newsletter In this edition: • Summer Party • Annual General Meeting • Volunteers Wanted • Summer Events at SRS • A Symbol of Hope • Stop Press Summer Party Wednesday, 24 th August 2016 12 noon – 3pm • Please join us for our Summer Party. • Enjoy food and refreshments. • Meet friends old and new. • All welcome. Annual General Meeting Thursday, 29 th September 2016 2pm – 4.30pm at Slough Council for Voluntary Services 27 Church Street Slough SL1 1PL Please join us. All friends of SRS welcome. Volunteers wanted – could you help SRS? We are always looking for keen and enthusiastic volunteers to train as advisers/caseworkers, help in our crèche, help with admin and many other roles. Free training is given to qualification level for caseworkers. Please contact [email protected]. He will explain what is involved and introduce you to SRS’s staff, clients and other volunteers.
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Welcome to our Summer 2016 Newsletter In this edition:
• Summer Party • Annual General Meeting • Volunteers Wanted • Summer Events at SRS • A Symbol of Hope • Stop Press
Summer Party Wednesday, 24th August 2016 12 noon – 3pm
• Please join us for our Summer Party. • Enjoy food and refreshments. • Meet friends old and new. • All welcome.
Annual General Meeting Thursday, 29th September 2016
2pm – 4.30pm at Slough Council for Voluntary Services
27 Church Street Slough
SL1 1PL Please join us. All friends of SRS welcome.
Volunteers wanted – could you help SRS? We are always looking for keen and enthusiastic volunteers to train as advisers/caseworkers, help in our crèche, help with admin and many other roles. Free training is given to qualification level for caseworkers. Please contact [email protected]. He will explain what is involved and introduce you to SRS’s staff, clients and other volunteers.
Summer Events at SRS Keriann, our Family Support Worker, has been busy organizing summer events for SRS’s clients and their children. On Wednesday, 3rd August, she will be taking parents and children for a Play Day in Salt Hill Park from 12 noon – 4pm.
Our ever-popular Teddy Bears’ Picnic will take place in our garden, weather permitting, on Tuesday, 16th August. If you would like to sponsor a child to have refreshments and engage in fun activities at our picnic, please donate £8 at www.sloughrefugeesupport.org.uk/donate . This year, kind ladies from Knit Your Socks Off are donating delightful, hand-knitted teddies for the children.
On 31st August, thanks to a very kind donation from Seedbed Christian Community Trust Ltd, we are hiring a coach to take a party of clients to Brighton for the day. Let’s hope the sun shines and we get the chance to paddle in the sea!
Eid Party On Friday, 8th July, we held an Eid Party. It was a warm day so we could enjoy the delicious food, kindly donated by Castle View and Spicy Foods, Slough, in our garden. Shabila and Rubab were much in demand for henna hand painting and all clients received donated raffle prizes.
A Symbol of Hope Ten refugee athletes will act as a symbol of hope for refugees worldwide and bring global attention to the magnitude of the refugee crisis when they take part in the Olympic Games Rio 2016 this summer. The athletes will compete for the Refugee Olympic Team – the first of its kind – and march with the Olympic flag immediately ahead of host nation Brazil at the Opening Ceremony. The female and male athletes were originally from Syria, South Sudan, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and, as such, are representative of many of SRS’s own refugee clients. Good luck to the refugee team. Stop Press With an increase of 42% of reported hate crimes across Britain in the week before and the week after the EU Referendum, SRS are very distressed that one of our former employees was punched in the face and knocked unconscious when watching an England match in a London pub, for no other reason than the colour of his skin. Mark Hamilton, Head of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, was quoted in The Guardian as saying that some people took the vote as “a licence to behave in a racist or other discriminatory way. We cannot divorce the country’s reaction to the referendum from the increase in hate crime reporting.” We wish our friend a speedy recovery and SRS have implemented security measures to ensure clients, staff and volunteers are as safe as possible whilst on SRS premises.
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