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Project 2019 – Sponsoring a room at the new YMCA facility
Each year we focus on one main project and for 2019 we decided to set ourselves a target to raise £2,500 to help furnish a room in the new YMCA facility being built in central Milton Keynes. During 2019 a number of events were planned to raise funds and promote SIMK; These included a Sewathon, held on 27 April, when volunteer patch workers, from across MK were sponsored by family and friends to make a king size quilt and two single quilts in a day! The magnificent king size quilt, in YMCA colours, was then raffled over the summer to add to the total raised, which was approximately £1,600.00. When staff at the YMCA saw the single quilts, destined for two lucky residents, they asked if it would be possible for us to make a further twenty eight quilts so that every new resident coming