THANKS for visiting our team page for Sheffield Poem-a-thon - a sort of relay poetry event! We are all poets based in South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire raising money for refugees and asylum seekers.
Please choose a poet to sponsor from our team. You'll see our team fundraising target on the right. Your donation can really help us to reach and even break through this goal.
We will all be raising money for ASSIST Sheffield who support failed asylum seekers - who who are not allowed to work, register as homeless or to be placed in local authority night shelters. Many become destitute, struggling for food, clothes and accommodation. ASSIST says:
£5 could cover expenses for a weekend’s hospitality for an asylum seeker in need of somewhere to sleep
£17 could cover travel expenses to enable an asylum seeker to get to medical and legal appointments
£20 could give a vulnerable asylum seeker a week’s ASSIST grant to enable them to buy some food
POEM-A-THON?
On 2nd April, a relay of 48 poets will each read for 8 minutes throughout the day. We are really lucky to be hosted by The Art House, a new venue with its own lovely café between 10am and 6pm.
SHEFFIELD POEM-A-THON
2nd April 2016, 10am – 6pm
at The Art House, Backfields, Sheffield S1 4HJ FREE ENTRY
Audience members can join us at any time throughout the day, staying for as long or as short a time as they wish. There will be refreshments, a bookstall and tombola as well as information about our charity.
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