Crowdfunder to Support Creative Conversations ESOL Project

Creative Conversations is an informal and fun way for migrants, including refugees and asylum seekers, to improve their English language and literacy skills. The project delivers English classes alongside craft sessions where the students can practise their vocabulary and skills in conversations with their peers and teachers.

The projects aims to help students:

increase their understanding of English and give them the opportunity to speak and practise their language skills in an informal and enjoyable atmosphere
gain a sense of belonging and connection to the local community
increase understanding of life in the UK and to meet people of different ages and life experiences
communicate better with teachers, health care workers and other professionals
increase their support for their children’s learning both in school and at home
progress to further study, both of English at a higher level and of other subjects.

Can you help support this crowdfunder? LINK

Tri for Cricklewood!

If you’ve seen the posters and leaflets in the library trying to tempt you into joining in the fundraising efforts but still need another bit of persuasion, take a look at this video. Last year we raised nearly £6000 for the library – can you help us do the same again this year?

Winter Piano and Cello Recital

We’re excited to announce our first event in the library – a piano and cello recital given by Clare Graham and Tara Clifford

Saturday 18th December 2021
Cricklewood Library, 6.30pm

‘Clair de lune’ from Suite Bergamasque – Debussy
‘Traumerei’ from Kinderszenen – R. Schumann (arr. Barrie Turner)
Children’s Corner Suite – Debussy
‘La Fille aux cheveux de lin’ from Preludes Book 1 – Debussy
Moments Musicaux No. 5 in D flat major – Rachmaninoff
Vocalise Op. 34 No. 14 – Rachmaninoff (Ed. R. Wallfisch)
—INTERVAL—
‘The Swan’ from Carnival of the Animals – Saint-Saens
Cello Suite No. 1 in G major – Bach
‘Prelude – Fantasia’ from Suite for Solo Cello – Cassado
The Snowman Suite – Howard Blake (arr. P. Legg and A. Gout)

For tickets, follow the link.

One week to go for the Blenheim Triathletes!

Unbelievably, it’s one week to go until the Blenheim Triathlon. Even more incredibly, we’re part of the biggest ever team at Blenheim – Kensal Tri – with an incredible 197 members. Between us, we’ve raise £55,744 for a range of good causes across Brent – including

Brent Centre for Young People, Gift Your Neighbour, 9Kitchens, The Lexi Cinema, Elders’ Voice, The Avenues Youth Project, Laurence’s Larder, and of course, Cricklewood Library. Collectively, the library fundraising team have reached nearly £4,500 – can you help us get to £5k? The link to sponsor some of these over-active people is here: https://bit.ly/2VgvyIL

 

Cricklewood Library Blenheim Tri Team Need Your Support

We now have FOUR Super Sprint athletes for the Blenheim Triathlon.

The team page, explaining why we’re doing it is here.

Tammy Krylova
Ali Stafford
Helen Wilkinson
Wendy Tyrrell

and three relay entrants:

Sally Long 750m swim
Alan Carter 5k run
and
Lewis Foti, 20k cycle

We met up with Giles Deards, the Kensal Tri Team organiser, to collect our Tri Team T-Shirts and pose ridiculously for the cameras. Please support our efforts! We’re all doing things we’ve never done before to raise money for this library, and we could do with a cash boost!

CROWDFUND THAT CAFE

Alan Carter writes:

The New Library is a Project with a long history which you can read about here : https://www.cricklewoodlibrary.org.uk/welcome/history/

The New Library is designed as a community hub with 2 activity rooms that can be hired out for any socially acceptable purpose. There are bookings already made for the activity rooms and the library space has mobile bookcases that can be rolled into a storage area so the main library hall is also available to be hired for other purposes.

The Active members of Friends of Cricklewood Library have been working for the last 10 years to get the new library open and their efforts have almost got the project finished. Sadly, due to a run of very bad luck and delays resulting from the Covid pandemic, they have now run out of money and needs help to cross the finishing line.

I have helped occasionally, in the past, at fund raising events for the new community library but a few months ago I volunteered to organise a team of other helpers to decorate the library and fit out the bookcases that had been donated by others.

All the rooms were bare plastered walls and ceilings without skirting boards and with broken plasterboard sills to doors and windows (don’t ask) .

Over 4 months of lockdown working socially isolated shifts a small group – mainly 3 pensioners – have decorated all the rooms, repaired the sills and fixed all the permanent bookcases in the library.

You can support the crowdfunder here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/help-kick-start-cricklewood-community-library-1