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Magical Candlelit Christmas Concert 2018

Candlelit Christmas Concert – Thursday 29th November 2018 PLEASE NOTE: tickets can no longer be bought on line.   Some tickets are available on the door.  Please come early to secure your place.  For details, see below.  Candlelit Christmas Concert at St Peter’s, Eaton Square, London – doors open 6.15 p.m.   The perfect start to the Christmas season – Christmas as we all love it.  It is another early date, due to Queen’s Gate School breaking up the following week, so please put the date in your diary now.   It is the voices of those lovely children that make the evening so memorable. The evening will be hosted throughout by ITV’s Julie Etchingham, and we are very pleased to welcome as Guest of Honour, our Patron, Eamonn Holmes OBE, well known Sky TV personality and TalkRadio host, together with Timothy West CBE and The Lord Cope of Berkeley PC. We are delighted that the Thames Fanfare Brass will once again be raising the roof.  What would Christmas Carols be without a Trumpet Fanfare?    There will, of course, be plenty of favourite Christmas Carols too. Concert Read more

By Claire, ago

Do you have an hour to spare?

Please can you help us on Friday 22nd June by sparing some time for our annual street collection in Dorking? Every year, the local community is hugely supportive of Kids for Kids but we need help – just one hour of your time would make such a difference!  Every hour donated, every penny raised, provides much needed funds for Darfur and will help us give children goat’s milk so that lack of protein does not damage their health irrevocably. All you need is enthusiasm and a big smile.  Volunteering slots are available all day, so any time that suits you would suit us.  Why not bring a friend or family member to make a fun day of it?  The more the merrier – and the more raised for Kids for Kids! Sign up now – contact our our Surrey Committee by email or calling 07921135463. If you have fun and want to do it again, or if you can’t get to Dorking on 22nd June, why not organise another collection?  Please get in touch. Thank you.

By Claire, ago

Empower Women in Darfur Now!

We have been chosen to be part of the Girl Fund Campaign with Global Giving. From now until Thursday 15th March you can help us make a real, and lasting, difference to women’s lives. If we get enough support we could be selected for one of six spots in the Girl Fund, securing project funding for the rest of 2018!   Just think what that would mean in Darfur – but we only have these two weeks to do it.  In order to do be chosen, we have to get the most donors to our Project titled ‘Empowering Women to Earn an Income- Darfur, Sudan’ on Global Giving’s website here. It is 100% up to YOU to help us secure funding! A donation as small as £10/$10 will make a huge difference.  It is not the amount we raise, it is the number of different people who donate- so please will you ask your friends to join us? We need you to ‘Vote with your Donation’. Please make a donation of any size, and then send this link far and wide Read more

By Claire, ago

Pope Francis Blesses the Children of Darfur

His Holiness Pope Francis blessed the children of Darfur while meeting Patricia Parker MBE, Founder of Kids for Kids, and Alastair King-Smith, Trustee, at the Vatican recently. Patricia was accompanying Alastair on a visit to Rome for an inter-faith conference whose participants were honoured with an Audience. Patricia asked the Pope to pray for the children of Darfur who are facing the prospect of famine this year following the failure of the harvest.  She told Pope Francis that families in remote villages rely solely on what they can grow. Few can afford even a few animals to enable them to diversify and feed their children. His Holiness said a private prayer with Alastair and Patricia and gave a Blessing. He added “And please pray for me.  I need it too.” Patricia said, “It was an overwhelming privilege to be in the presence of His Holiness.  When he held my hands and said a prayer for the children in Darfur, I felt hope for the first time this year. At Kids for Kids we are doing all we can to help, Read more

By Claire, ago

City of London School Welcomes Back Kids for Kids

We were delighted to be invited to City of London School to tell the students how the money they had worked so hard to raise had actually been spent. Patricia Parker MBE, Founder and CEO of Kids for Kids, was welcomed back and spoke to both the Junior and Senior Schools. “For me it is even more important for children and young people to know exactly what charities do with their funds because if they are convinced they are making a real and tangible difference, then they will go on throughout their lives knowing they can help others. I don’t understand why other charities are so unclear about what they are doing on the ground. If there are problems, we should say so.” City of London School adopted Kids for Kids as their Charity of the year in 2013-14 and raised an incredible £86,862.88. Patricia says, “They were phenomenal. I have never had a school raise that much for us – it was astonishing! Because we do all we can to minimise administration we were able to transform literally hundreds of Read more

By Claire, ago

French Wine Tasting Evening

You are warmly invited to join us at 7pm on Thursday 26th April 2018 for a convivial evening of Wine Tasting of varietals from Bordeaux and adjacent regions! The evening will take place at a private house in Reigate, Surrey by kind permission of Mrs Angela Haeems. The evening’s wines will be tasted with an accompaniment of French cheeses brought directly back from Bordeaux! Enjoy with crusty baguette, salad and preserves followed by a delicious compote of garden berries, meringue and cream. Robert Lightwood from Wine Country will provide commentary through the evening’s Wine Tasting. Robert is the husband of Karen Pearson, an accomplished artist who hosts Paint and Picnic Days in the summer for Kids for Kids! This is a wonderful chance to increase your wine knowledge, enjoy with others, and help us raise much needed funds for our sustainable projects helping children and families in Darfur. Please get in touch with contact@kidsforkids.org.uk or 07921135463 for tickets and more information about the evening. Please send cheques (£17.50 per person) payable to Kids for Kids to P O Box 456, Dorking RH4 2WS, United Read more

By Claire, ago

French Wine Tasting Evening

You are warmly invited to join us at 7pm on Thursday 26th April 2018 for a convivial evening of Wine Tasting of varietals from Bordeaux and adjacent regions! The evening will take place at a private house in Reigate, Surrey by kind permission of Mrs Angela Haeems. The evening’s wines will be tasted with an accompaniment of French cheeses brought directly back from Bordeaux! Enjoy with crusty baguette, salad and preserves followed by a delicious compote of garden berries, meringue and cream. Robert Lightwood from Wine Country will provide commentary through the evening’s Wine Tasting. Robert is the husband of Karen Pearson, an accomplished artist who hosts Paint and Picnic Days in the summer for Kids for Kids! This is a wonderful chance to increase your wine knowledge, enjoy with others, and help us raise much needed funds for our sustainable projects helping children and families in Darfur. Please get in touch with contact@kidsforkids.org.uk or 07921135463 for tickets and more information about the evening. Please send cheques (£17.50 per person) payable to Kids for Kids to P O Box 456, Dorking RH4 2WS, United Read more

By Claire, ago