Inspirator: His Divine Holiness Acharya Swamishree Purushottampriyadasji Maharaj
Charity and Community
As a worldwide centre for spiritual, cultural and social welfare Shree Swaminarayan Gadi Sansthan humbly performs a range of charitable and humanitarian acts to ensure the spread of respect, decency, morality, positivity, comradeship and honour amongst members of the Sansthan and the community at large.
To celebrate these core values of the Sansthan, in the prelude to and throughout the Kingsbury Mandir Grand Opening Festival, the London members of the Organisation, will build upon its existing charitable activities and has organised a series of activities to support our charity partners. Thereby fulfilling Acharya Swamishree's aspiration that 'Dedicating one's life to the service of others is the truest celebration of a festival’.Our Partners
Our main charity partner for the Festival is St Luke's Hospice, a local institution located on Kenton Road. The hospice cares for residents and their families of Harrow and Barnet whose illnesses are no longer curable. It has been serving society for over 27 years, and has done while offering all its services free of charge. We hope to highlight and support the great work of St Luke’s, through organizing and fundraising through a range of fun and exciting events.
During our Festival, we will also continue to support our long standing partnerships with The National Blood Donation Services and Sport Relief. Over the past five years we have held Blood Donation sessions that have collected over a thousand units of blood Blood Donations; and run many thousands of miles to raise funds for Sport relief. The work of these organisations remains immensely valuable and we are proud of our efforts towards their causes.
Details of the main Kingsbury Mandir Grand Opening Festival events organised to raise funds for St. Luke’s Hospice and support our charity partners are provided below. Please take the opportunity to support us, whenever possible.
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Shree Swaminarayan Mandir Mile
Dates: Sunday 23rd March 2014
Shree Swaminarayan Mandir Kingsbury continued its highly successful relationship with Sport Relief by backing the 2014 Sport Relief campaign more strongly than ever before. The Mandir’s efforts contributed to the colossal £54m already raised by this year’s campaign. The Mandir both hosted over a hundred runners at the local Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile in Church Lane Playing Fields and our very own Shree Muktajeevan Pipe Band and Dhol Academy led the exciting array of entertainment at the flagship Mile event at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
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Blood Donation
Dates: Sunday 13th April 2014
Shree Swaminarayan Mandir Kingsbury held its first Blood Donation Session at its new home. Many donors from beyond our own community - from the local area – joined the session. Not only did they take part in this important act of selfless giving, but they will have glimpsed the Mandir continuing to develop and hopefully had their appetite whetted for the Shree Swaminarayan Mandir Kingsbury Grand Opening Festival in August - this session was part of the our much wider charity campaign in the lead up to August.
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Previous Blood Donations Events held by the Mandir.
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Skydiving Tandem Jump
Dates: 26th April 2014 - Hinton Airfield, Northants
16 brave members of Shree Swaminarayan Mandir Kingsbury took to the skies in an adventurous sky dive at Hinton Airfield, Northants. An incredible £20,000 was raised for St Luke’s Hospice – our chosen charity partner – as part of the charity campaign in the lead up to Shree Swaminarayan Mandir Kingsbury Grand Opening Festival in August.
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Great North Swim
Dates: 13-15th June 2014 - Lake Windermere, ½ mile, 1 mile, 2 miles, 5 miles
On Sunday 15th June, 14 swimmers from Shree Swaminarayan Mandir Kingsbury joined the thousands plunging into the cold waters of Lake Windermere for the Great North Swim. Funds raised by these “Swaminarayan Swimmers” brought the total so far raised for the St Luke’s Hospice to £24,000 in less than three months. This and other charity projects form part of the wider campaign in the lead up to the Shree Swaminarayan Mandir Kingsbury Grand Opening festival.
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St Luke's Midnight Walk
Dates: 27th June 2014 - Harrow Leisure Centre, Christchurch Avenue, HA3 5BD
On Friday 27th June, over 80 ladies from Shree Swaminarayan Mandir Kingsbury joined hundreds of other women for St Luke’s Midnight Walk. They walked 9 miles to raise over £2000 for the local hospice, bringing the total raised for them by the Mandir to £26,000 in just 3 months.
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Blood Donation
Dates: Sunday 13th July 2014
Muktajeevan Swamibapa Complex, Kingsbury. Many donors from beyond our own community - from the local area – joined the session situated in the main hall of Shree Abji Bapashree House.
Not only did they take part in this important act of selfless giving, but they will have glimpsed the Mandir continuing to develop and hopefully had their appetite whetted for the Shree Swaminarayan Mandir Kingsbury Grand Opening festival in August - this session was part of the our much wider charity campaign in the lead up to August.
Previous Blood Donations Events held by the Mandir.
