Our Music Benefit event, held at Chaplin’s Bar in Boscombe on Saturday, was a great success – no mean feat given the competition for public attention (and occasional noise!) from the airshow. We collected over £1600.  This couldn’t have happened without the generous support of many musicians, poetry readers, face painters, cake makers as well as raffle prize sponsors. Special thanks are due to Nick Humphrey, Conrad Barr and the owner Harry Secombe, who made the bar and garden at Chaplin’s available all day, and to their lovely staff who couldn’t have been more helpful. The performers on the day were…
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Some of you may remember attending the Journeymen Theatre’s performance of Feeding the Darkness (about state-sanctioned torture), a few years ago. This will be the very last performance of Journeymen as Lynn and Dave are retiring.

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We had a stall at the Boscombe Increase the Peace Festival on Sunday May 7th. This was a first for us and proved very successful. We featured two individual campaigns, Chow Hang-tung and Salma al-Shehab, plus the Stop the Cruel Immigration Bill campaign.

W4R is Amnesty International’s annual campaign, sending greetings cards to prisoners of conscience, their families and other human rights defenders around the world. In 2019, more than 6.5 million messages of support and appeal letters were sent during the W4R campaign. They made a big difference to the people and communities confronting injustice and facing human rights violations.
We had two successful W4R events, at Moordown Community Centre and Bournemouth Library. Thanks, especially, to the library for being so welcoming and letting us set up in their upstairs entrance, rather than the downstairs foyer.
Its not too late to take part; please download the 2022 W4R booklet and send cards to those imprisoned for their beliefs – most for taking part in or supporting protests, such as Russian Sasha Skochilenko. She decided to peacefully protest by replacing price tags in her local supermarket with small labels carrying information about the the war in Ukraine. She faces 10 years in prison
http://email.amnestyuk.org.uk/c/1OlbWu8msw3ojtXlj66oveoQfN

Many thanks to everyone who came to our Quiz Night, We had a full house and raised over £320. Special thanks to the Brunswick for the giving us a great venue, for free; David Rogers for setting the questions and Sally Hawsworth for being the hostess.

If anyone wants a copy of the questions for their own quiz nights, please get in touch.