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Walk brings centre one step nearer to completion
Cricklewood Homeless Concern held a successful day of events on Saturday to help raise vital funding.
The total amount raised was £1,100 and the money concerned will go towards the costs of building and supporting the charity’s new Cricklewood Homeless Concern (CHC) building on Ashford Road.
The day started with a sponsored walk from Kilburn to Cricklewood, which was attended by the traditional group the Maids of Erin, Donncha O’Duiling of RTÉ’s Failte Isteach programme and musicians and singers from the Irish Rambling House Group.
The walk incorporated many areas of historical significance for the Irish community in London, including Kilburn High Road, Tricycle Theatre and the Galtymore in Cricklewood.
The site of the new CHC building on Ashford Road was the final stop on the walk.
The building will, when completed in the New Year, be a purpose-built professional resource for Irish people in need.
A concert was then held that evening in the Crown Moral Hotel, Cricklewood where the Maids Of Erin took to the stage to play in front of a capacity crowd.
CHC chair Danny Maher said: “I want to thank Irish Rambling House, the Maids Of Erin and everyone who took part in the walk or attended the concert for their generous donations and support.
“In the run-up to Christmas and with our new £2.7million community centre due for completion in the New Year, this is a very important time for CHC.
“We still desperately need to raise £120,000 to go ahead with our ambitious plans to refurbish the new centre.”
Approximately 350 Irish homeless people are cared for by the CHC facility each year as well as immigrants fleeing war-torn nations in east Africa in search of a better life.
Over 900 people in total pass through CHC’s doors every year, many of whom are Irish migrants who have fallen on hard times in an area which has the highest level Irish concentration in the whole of Britain.
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