How you can support the Nicaraguan Children's Right to Play Campaign
Common Threads is kick starting the Nicaraguan Children's Right to Play Campaign with a donation of £500. Many people will already know that, as part of our mission as a social enterprise, we make donations to various projects outside the UK which are supporting children's play at this time of year in the form of 'Good Gifts'. This year we have decided to make just one donation to CESEMA to enable them to set up this very important campaign. We hope that playworkers will be able to join us in re-directing their pennies from sending Christmas cards and giving them to support this campaign instead!
CESESMA has already set up a "Friends of CESESMA" UK Charity, so it is easy to make donations. As this is managed with voluntary support, they have zero administration costs in the UK so they can guarantee that every penny donated goes to CESESMA in Nicaragua, and on top of that they can claim Gift Aid tax relief on your donations. Once the project is underway, the children will send regular reports and photos to our magazine Playwords, so readers can be kept up-to-date with progress and see how their donations are being put to use. There will also be a Right to Play Campaign web page on CESESMA's website.
How to make a donation
Cheques payable to Friends of CESESMA can be sent to:
Friends of CESESMA
Cleaver Black
Suite 5 Ormeau House
91-97 Ormeau Road
Belfast
BT7 1SH
Alternatively, if you have internet banking you can pay direct to their account:
Bank: Ulster Bank
Sort Code: 98-00-60
Account name: Friends of CESESMA
Account number: 10175784
Please fill in a Gift Aid declaration and send it with your donation so that they can claim tax relief. You can download this from: www.cesesma.org
Please think about making a regular payment by standing order. You can use a single Gift Aid form to cover all donations until further notice.
Friends of CESESMA is a charity registered in Northern Ireland, No. XT8739.
Read the full article by Harry Shier from CESESMA about The Right to Play in Nicaragua in an extract from Playwords Issue 37 - which is available here.
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