With apologies for the lack of updates recently, here’s some news about our latest fund-raising event.

To raise funds jointly for GCP and Life Association India we put on our second garden party and barbecue on Sunday 8th of July.

All we really need now is people...

Our good friends Dave and Bee are heading out to India later this year to work with Life Association and it seemed too good an opportunity to miss, combining these great causes and mixing the cultures to put on a great summer event – we hadn’t heard of “Braz-Indian” before, but we think it has a good ring to it!

Despite Britain having pretty much the worst summer on record, with a month of rain in a day on more than one occasion, we were blessed with sunshine all the day from before setting up to after we finished – amazing.

The attractions included…

The repeat of our fantastic barbecue with possibly more meat than I’ve seen in one place before…

The Barbecue

Dalit candles and lights, cards, cakes, cupcakes, jams, marmalade, bunting and more to buy…

Cupcakes and candles

Then we had our hook-a-duck again…

Hook-a-duck

Plus guess the weight of the cake and the number of sweets in the jar, the bouncy castle, face painting…

Face Painting

…and best of all, over 70 of the nicest people you could ever want to meet!

The result was a lot of fun, great community spirit and a total of over £650 raised for the Genesis Community Project and Dave and Bee’s work for Life Association India – well done to you all!

Many thanks go to more people than we can list, but especially Chris and Sandra for the use of their garden, Charli for the cakes, Nigel for the bouncy castle and Bernie, Phil, Gill, Hilary, Dave, Bee, Sheila, John and Fiona for organising everything.  Apologies if I’ve left anyone out – it was really such a team effort.

Quiz night flyer (click for full size version)

Following the successful quiz night at Baraka in Garforth, Genesis Community Project is joining forces with PASCA for another spectacular brain challenge.  There’ll also be cakes, a raffle and hot drinks – and you can bring other drinks if you want to.

So join us on Saturday 28th April, at 7:30pm with a team of friends – we’re expecting some good team names (can you beat “Quiztina Aguilera”?) – or join a team on the evening and see how you match up.   Please remember that you will need to buy a ticket, buy in advance at only £5 each including a chilli (go here to buy online at guestli.st.com ) or a cost of £7 each on the door – we’d like to know numbers beforehand if possible so we can cook enough chilli!

We’ll see you at the Mosaic Warehouse at number 10 Sweet Street, LS11 9DB where there’s plenty of free parking. The full details are on the attached flyer – all proceeds will be going jointly to PASCA and Genesis Community Project.

Here’s the flyer as a downloadable PDF – feel free to print it out and share it on your church bulletin board, etc…

PASCA and GCP Quiz Night

Excitement is building as the auction list grows for the Brazilian Ball.  A small selection of the donated goodies includes:

• Travel including narrow boat trips, Cumbrian B&B and Thorpe Park nights
• Treat yourself with professional haircuts, pampering products, spa treatments, massages & facials
• Entertainment including tickets to dance, theatres, Doncaster Dome and paintballing
• Jewellery including a designer necklace, chain
• Foodie treats including luxury chocolate, Nibbles and Demouchel
• Loads of other items, even including a pink ukelele!

Please do come ready to join in – in one night you could sort your next holiday, early Christmas presents and treats for yourself as well as getting ‘brownie points’ with a significant other… and all benefiting this really worthwhile cause.

More news on the way soon – if you haven’t bought your tickets, the time is rapidly running out!  If you have ordered tickets, please make sure you have also passed on payment, if you haven’t already.

A big thank-you to the 100 or so people who have already booked into what looks like the event of the year!

Still chance to get your tickets – don’t miss out

Tickets can be obtained from Garforth Bookshop

or e-mail Baraka

For more details click here

See you there

Washington Pires

Be one of the lucky 120 people to join us for a special evening of Celebration and Fundraising at the first…
Baraka Brazilian Ball!

Flyer for the Ball

The Baraka Brazilian Ball is raising money for the Genesis Community Project. Working in Partnership with our friends living in the Washington Pires favela/slum in the city of Ibirite in Brazil.

Get your glad rags on, Friday 7th October. 6:45pm-Midnight.
At the Thorpe Park Hotel events suite, Leeds 15 (map).

The evening includes a dazzling array of treats!
Drinks reception, 3 course meal & coffee
Live music, Charity auction, Zumba, DJ & dancing, prizes and more!

Tickets are £35 and are available from Garforth Bookshop
or email ball@barakaonline.co.uk.

Also see Baraka’s website.

Thanks to all those who attended the follow-up evening at 62C, it was a really useful time for us to talk in some detail about the vision and how we intend to proceed and also to find out more about who is interested in helping and in what ways.

We’ll be in touch soon with more information about how you can get involved – there are some exciting things happening!