To: "The Arsenal in the Community Officer"

Arsenal Stadium, Avenall Road                                                            Memory Gardens Sculpture Project
London  N5 1BU                                                                                 Legard Road, N5

10 March 2004

Dear Sir/Madam

We are a very small, but gradually increasing self-help project, which is based just around the corner from your stadilu. We run weekend clubs for autistic and dyslexic young people in what used to be adderelict garden adjoining the NCH Family Centre. Indeed we have spent the past two years renovating the land, transforming it from an overgrown, brick and debris-filled ex-garden into a real garden with plants, hers and flowers.

At our weekend clubs, we make large and small-scale sculptures out of natural materials, i.e. old fence posts, washed-up sea  shells, recycled materials, brocken bricks. We aloso cook our lunch over a bonfire, occasioanlly all meeting up for an evening barbecue- thus teaching additional skills.

We also run an educational program for adults with hig-functioning autism, who train to become mentors for the younger people who attend our weekend clubs.

Whilst discussing possibilities for future funding, one member suggested approaching your Football Club, as we sometimes hear music and applause from your Stadium.

It is as a result of this discussion that I am now writing to yourselves. We urgently need more funding to pay for a wooden work platform, upon which we could bbuild more sculptures; and to pay for an artist to help us create a greenhouse from bamboo.

We also have increasing and on-going expenses as Spring Approaches, needing to buy more plants. more building materials, and to employ more workers.

We would be grateful for any donation which you would care to make. This could be either a one-off, or monthly payment. Upon discussion with our members, the sum of £200 was suggested.

We would be very grateful for your assistance right now, and would welcome a visit to our site from a representative of your club. I am only too happy to show interested people the garden. I could also send you photos of the garden and the sculptures created in it.

I look forward to hearing from you,

Yours Faithfully,

Ruth Solomon, Founder
Memory Gardens Sculpture Project