The 43rd Bedford Park Festival - June 13-28 2009
Festival Charities 
This year’s Festival is raising money for:
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St Michael & All Angels’ Trust Fund and its arts and community projects. These will include its new Organ Project, recently announced, which will raise money between now and 2012 to instal a new organ on the ground floor of the church - as originally designed by the architect Richard Norman Shaw.
- the Microloan Foundation, a Chiswick-based charity which makes start-up loans to the poor in Malawi and the Philippines.
It lends money to groups of women to help them build sustainable businesses, and it provides meaningful training and mentoring support.
Its patrons are Bob Geldof and Gabby Logan.
- and The Upper Room,
which has been helping people in need for over 18 years, based at St Saviour's church, Cobbold Park in W12. The charity provides a broad range of services for the homeless, vulnerable, and socially disadvantaged of West London, including serving over 30,000 meals a year (right).
In addition, at Noon on Sunday June 14th (during Green Days weekend, opposite Turnham Green tube station) we shall be supporting the World Busk - an attempt to break a world record in aid of Musequality, last year's Festival charity. It was set up
two years ago by the violinist David Juritz, a local resident and leader of the London Mozart Players, who busked round the world to raise its initial funds.