Newham Youth Action Team host Shanti International Fundraising Day

Saturday saw Newham’s Youth Action Team dangling above the streets of Newham in the sunshine – all for a good cause, naturally. The Newham Action Fun Day was run by the young people of the Newham Youth Action Team run by vinvolved East London in Outdoors in the City, which brings extreme sports and activities to the local community. Sponsored zip wire leaps, bungee jumps, tug of war battles and sumo challenges were undertaken to raise money for Shanti International. There was a barbeque and even live acoustic music.

Over Eighty people came along, keen to take on physical challenges and raise money, and over £1,500 was collected for Shanti International to help build wells in India and also to help this local community venue in Canning Town- Outdoors in the City.

“It was a brilliant day, and I’ve never done anything like that before, it was nice that it was so close and that we did it for charity” says local resident and  Youth Action Team member Jennifer Mallari (featured in the photo) who celebrated her 18^th birthday on the day with a jump.  “The young people did a fantastic job of organizing it, everyone was really happy with it and we had such a good time.” Says Emma Holtz who works for Changemakers with Bryan Precious from the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers to support the Youth Action Team to carry out local projects in Newham.