Thank you Tottenham Youth Fund (blog & video)

By Brian Leveson
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20 Feb, 2022
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At Christmas we asked people to help Zack fund a complex needs play session at The Markfield Project. By New Year, Haringey local councillor Seema Chandwani and the Tottenham Youth Fund had agreed to fund a pilot session this Easter.

The Tottenham Youth Fund have agreed to fund the complex needs play sessions pilot!!!!

The Tottenham Youth Fund has been set up by Councillor Seema Chandwani and David Lammy MP.

Every year Cllr Chandwani will be donating £1,000 of her Councillor allowance to the young people of Tottenham and this has been matched by a personal donation of £1,000 by David Lammy MP. The rest of the funds will be raised by crowd-funding and donations from local businesses and organisations. Young people from Tottenham between 11-19 years old can apply for equipment, events and trips for their youth project.

The Tottenham Youth Fund is being administered by The Selby Trust.

The Markfield Project Sessions for children with complex needs

Those wonderful people at Markfield Project in Haringey would like to run special play sessions for groups of up to 8 children and young people, aged 5 to19, who have severe/complex physical disabilities, including paraplegia, complex health needs, profound and multiple learning disabilities and life-limiting conditions.

Initially, this would be a pilot project during the Easter Holidays 2022, and, if successful, sessions would then run on a monthly basis.

Link to Markfield : https://markfield.org.uk/

Please donate to either or both of these Haringey groups for children and young people

Both The Tottenham Youth Fund and The Markfield Project are voluntary charity organisations and in need of funding to continue to do their good works. Pleas use the CrowdFunding links below to donate to either charity.

Tottenham Youth Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/tottenham-youth-fund

The Markfield Project: https://justgiving.com/markfieldproject

Zack says THANK YOU to Tottenham Youth Fund

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