SCT gig 09/04/15,

About the event

Who I am
My name is Martina Danielova. I am one of a group of volunteers together with Pavol and Juan Carlos. We have chosen to arrange this gig because some of us have seen the effects of addiction in our families and we also witness some of the devastating lives around us on the streets on the way to work. Every week we are noticing increasing numbers of rough sleepers in Shoreditch.
It pains us to see them, especially in winter month. We all know how hard London can be to survive and we decided to raise our voices towards to this issue and remind of a human attitude towards each other.

What is on
A rock/indie & pop music festival featuring five London bands ( Morning Lane, Under the Sun, I/M/M/I/G/R/A/N/T/S, Jamie Crawford, Headlong ) at 93 Feet East in Shoreditch (http://www.93feeteast.co.uk/cgi-bin/web/index.pl).

The event will run from 7pm to 11pm on a Thursday evening in April 2015. We anticipate a fun, young, music-loving crowd . Entrance is £5 pp to enjoy the music. Please find more about artists on our facebook page : https://m.facebook.com/sctconcert


How You Can Help and benefits for you

We aim to achieve sponsorship that will help us to cover the costs for the event as promotion, parking and equipment rent. We are not only looking for the financial help but also for any kind of support you can provide for us - we are looking to run a raffle and we are still looking for the prizes.

We would like to promote your support on the night and in all literature relating to the event, on our posters, promotion including social media - local & London media. We would like to bring attention of the several media.

We are looking forward to host 5 successful, professional bands of London Scene who are generously willing to help. Our main costs are for publicity, printing, travel of artists, some venue costs. The bands are playing for free and we have negotiated a substantially low venue hire.

The Aim of the Event
We intend to raise at least £1,000 for Spitalfields Crypt Trust on entry fee (http://www.sct.org.uk/) , a local Shoreditch-based charity, which provides real life-changing opportunities for those affected by homelessness and addiction. More specifically the money from this event and your sponsorship will go to support SCT’s training & personal development centre called The New Highbury project. This project provides homeless people who are willing to take the recovery path accommodation, life skills teaching and constant support to prevent the relapse to get back to life – to be able to work and get back with their families. We do this voluntarily to support SCT as they are celebrating 50 years of their existence in 2015.

SCT
A registered charity (number 1075947). It was founded in 1965 in Spitalfields as a response to the numbers of homeless alcoholics and its work is still relevant today. For more information, please visit www.sct.org.uk

Contact
To find out more, please contact Martina Danielova on 0777 234 3814 at mdanielova@travo.co.uk
For SCT, please contact Mike Coffey on 020 7613 5722 or at mike.coffey@sct.org.uk
This week, Mark, one of our former drop in regulars, started a new job in a London park.
“I got to the park at 7.15 on Monday morning. It’s my first day in the job. The park looks beautiful.”
He’s a happy man.
"I’ll be working in the park four days a week, and on Thursdays I’ll be studying at college for my tree surgery certificate. It’s been emotional, you know. But for the first time in my life I really do believe that I’m feeling content in myself.”
"It’s been emotional, you know. But for the first time in my life I really do believe that I’m feeling content in myself.”
We first met Mark around 5 years ago when he started to come to our drop in: “I was just looking for a bite to eat”. After Graham pointed him in the direction of our personal development and training centre, the New Hanbury Project, he signed up.
“I came to the Hanbury and got introduced to a few people there. I started doing gardening with Sean and carpentry with Bernard. I think I done about a term and then lapsed. And I think I done a second term and I lapsed.”
Each time Mark relapsed, he knew he could rely on us to help him get back on the road to recovery.
Each time Mark relapsed, he knew he could rely on us to help him get back on the road to recovery.
“My journey hasn’t been a bed of roses. To me, it’s baby steps and it’s very, very gradual. “
Recently, we helped Mark get a more formal structure to his daily life, helping to fill the vacuum that appears when the drink is gone.
He started working with our cleaning and painting social enterprise, YourTime and also gained work experience in our not-for-profit café, Paper & Cup.
“By doing work, my thinking changed. I got to live in the real world where before all my life I had lived in my

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