A Frustrating Meeting!

© Carol Allen Storey

We are planning an Exhibition of Carol Allen Storey's photographs of the Kasese Street Kids. It is to be in the beautiful Parish Church of Holy Trinity, Kendal.

We have brought a small Committee together to plan this; it includes

· an artist-cum-printer, who will print, mount and frame the large (A2) black-and-white photographs;

· A local businessman and entrepreneur, with many contacts around the county;

· the wife of our Bishop;

· a churchwarden of the Parish Church;

· another man who has agreed to be on the Committee but was away yesterday is a retired doctor with a lot of experience of Médecins Sans Frontières

· and Mary and me.

The Committee met yesterday for the first time in the Parish Church. We found the church was in chaos, setting up tiered seating for a forthcoming concert. We started our meeting in the church office - but a few minutes later had to leave there as someone had to do a mass of photocopying. So we went into the church side-chapel, where we had to compete with thunderous organ music!

However some useful decisions were made, like where in the church the Exhibition would be, and that we could use the church's own display board system.

However one critical factor is cost - to print and frame these large photographs (measuring 2 feet or more) will cost about £500; add lighting, publicity, food and drink for the Guest Preview etc... It all adds up.

We are NOT prepared to divert money donated for the Street Kids project to pay Exhibition costs; so we will need sponsors. Various local businesses were suggested as worth approaching - but the present climate is tough for many businesses. Without sponsorship, we can't go ahead. (Any volunteers out there?)

Radio Broadcast

Tomorrow, Wednesday, we have been asked to do a broadcast on BBC Radio Cumbria – just taking part, by phone, in a chat programme. We are always glad of any means of spreading the message – though media coverage seldom, of itself, leads to donations.

£100

However we did get a donation of £100 yesterday! Some old friends had been watching Comic Relief – I don’t know if they donated to that, but they said that it all reminded them of our project, and so £100 was added to our funds via www.justgiving.com/kasesestreetkids!