Good causes

HARROW ON THE HILL: The presentation for the winner of St Luke's Hospice's Treasure Trail competition's £1,000 prize draw, which was due to be held at 2pm on Sunday at Our Lady and St Thomas of Canterbury Church in Roxborough Avenue, Harrow, has been cancelled and will go ahead at the charity's Summer Fete on Saturday July 21 at the hospice in Kenton Grange, Kenton.

Particpants paid £10 for adults and £5 for children to solve a booklet of 20 clues to crack a code while following directions for a two-mile walk around Harrow on the Hill.

A MUM from Harrow raised £500 for a charity which helps stop women and girls being sold into the international sex trade on Saturday March 10.

Camilla Leyland, mother of one and yoga teacher, held a yogathon at the YMCA Activities Hall on Roxeth Hill along with yoga centres around the world.

A CENTRE which helps severely bullied children has applied for an award from our Let's Do It campaign for a 'life-changing' trip.

The Red Balloon Learner centre in Kenton Road offers a safe environment for children who have been taken out of mainstream education and teaches core curriculum subjects as well arts and music.

LATE-NIGHT Christian volunteers have committed to helping people in need on the streets in Harrow.

The first group of Street Pastors were presented at Harrow Civic Centre on Thursday, January 26, and will soon be patrolling the streets on Friday and Saturday nights, giving out bottles of water and offering assistance to people who have been drinking or who run into trouble in a bid to reduce crime and make people feel safer.

St Luke's Hospice in Kenton is holding a fifth annual family friendly Mother's Day walk on Sunday April 3 along a 1 œ-mile course around Harrow on the Hill starting at 1.30pm at Our Lady of St Thomas and Canterbury Church in Roxborough Park, where it also finishes.
Entry costs £5 for adults and £3 for under-16s and concessions, and participants will be able to enjoy home-made cakes afterwards.

A LOBBYING group for Harrow pensioners that is working with less than a quarter of the funding of its predecessors is to meet next month.
Three separated organisations with a combined subsidy of £60,000 - the Partnership with Older People panel, the Older People's Reference Group and the Harrow Pensioners' Forum - were replaced with a single body, the Harrow Older People's Assembly, and a grant of just £13,000 from Harrow Council, at the end of last year.

OLD and broken gardening tools can be swapped for new ones next month during a 'garden tool amnesty' running at Harrow Garden Centre in Headstone Lane for the fourth year running.
Trowels, spades, hand and garden forks, hoes and rakes but not electricity or petrol driven tools left between Saturday February 12 until Sunday February 27 will be passed to The Conservation Foundation for repair and refurbishment by prisoners.
In return customers will receive a 20 per cent discount voucher to redeem against new tools from a selection of brands.

PASSENGERS had to do a double take when they spotted Santa Claus behind the controls of Metropolitan line services in the fortnight up to Christmas Day.
However, it was in fact Tube train driver Ian West, 56, of Waverley Road, South Harrow, who dressed in a red jumper and a Father Christmas hat while operatings trains in the two weeks up to the holiday to raise money for Cancer Research UK.

Radio Northwick Park will be holding a Christmas fundraiser at Harrow-on-the-Hill station in College Road on Saturday, December 11, between 9am and 6pm.
Volunteers dressed as Father Christmas and elves will be collecting donations while passengers will be able to listen to the live shows broadcast from the station's studio at Northwick Park Hospital.

Harrow Choral Society is holding A Festival of Christmas Music for Choir and Audience at Harrow School's Speech Room in High Street on Saturday, December 11, at 7.30pm.
Tickets for the concert, which features readings by actor Clive Swift, are £15 or £7.50 for the under-16s and can be ordered via 0208 863 7830 or ollypet@hotmail.com