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Таganka Children's Fund is pleased to invite to the 12 th Charitable Bowling Tournament, which will take place on the 26th of April 2017, 18.00-22.00 in the coziest and most generous bowling club in Moscow - "Bi-Ba-Bo“ (Karmanitskiy pereulok 9, metro Smolenskaya) Terms of participation: teams of 4 players, if you don’t have a team we can offer you participation in a combined team. Donation: 3500 rubles per person Booking: tcfcharity@mail.ru, or +7 (495) 911 74 49 We look forward to see you ! The major sponsor of the tournament is Bowling club "Bi-Ba-Bo“

Taganka children's fund would like to heartily thank the experts from the Moscow city association of the parents of disabled children headed by Yulia Kamal for attending one of the social rehabilitation classes of Rostochek group for disabled young adults and offering their professional evaluation and advice. The visit took place on the 22nd of March and led to development of a number of ideas and interesting future activities being planned.

This was the title of the recently performed concert by Rostochek group participants, who have prepared the music performance together with their teachers. All participants of the group had a chance to perform, no one was left out. And to support this brave beginning, another music group - TCF's Dobry Molodtsy- have supported Rostochek with music compositions of their own. .

Social Quest is a series of events, aimed at developing positive civil activity through social projecting. This is a project co-organised by the Agency of social investment and innovation, Kaissa, Taganka children's fund and Living Cities Forum. The project is funded by the grant from the city of Moscow Committee of Public Connections for socially-oriented NGOs. The project includes strategic sessions for people, who are prepared to start their own social project and provision of support by project teams for the duration of 2 months. The project aims to attract 60 activists and achieve 30 ready to launch social projects as the result. The work is divided into three strands: My neighbourhood (for projects in the interests of the local community), My family (for projects in the interests of families and children), My city (for the city-level projects). Taganka children's fund is involved in the My family strand of work and launches its participation in March 2017. Everyone is invited to learn more and get involved.

The Public Council of the parents of disabled children and young people of Taganka district in Central Moscow in partnership with Taganka children's fund and State Center for social support to family and children "Semiya" has piloted a new format of event on the 3rd of March at the library of the Prefect of the Central region of Moscow. The event took place at 5 Novospassky per. and aimed at families with disabled children. The event has been devoted to the International Women's Day on the 8th of March. Attending families have received a lot of new information about available social and educational support services in Moscow, opportunities for integration of their children into the society. The inclusive theatre company Taganka shed and Warm-hearted workshop have organised master-classes for the participants.

We heartily thank students-volunteers from the All-Russian academy of external trade of the Ministry of economic development of the Russian Federation for the wonderfully organised celebration of the Pancake day, sincere care and positive emotions that they have shown to the children and young people of Rostochek group during joint activities. Your help is greatly appreciated!

The Public Council of the parents of disabled children and young people with disabilities of Taganka district in Moscow in cooperation with Taganka children's fund and the centre for social support to family and children Semiya will be holding an event on the occasion of the International Women's Day on the 3rd March 2017 at 4pm at the Library of the Central district Prefecture (5 Novospassky per.) for families with disabled children. The main aim of the event is to inform families with disabled children about available social and educational resources of the city of Moscow, to assist in socialisation and integration of disabled children into the society. The event will include master-classes of the Inclusive theatre company Taganka shed and Warm-hearted workshop, non-government organisation Alley of Kindness and consultations of educational and leisure centers as well as a concert and entertainment programme. The event is unique in a way that it has been initiated by the parents of disabled children, who united together and formed a Council to take any necessary steps to help build a constructive and constant dialogue with representatives of the executive and legislative authorities in order to help their children learn music, arts, literature and creativity as well as help unite all those parties who care about the problems of the disabled members of society.

Warm-hearted workshop has presented its unique produce at the Mendelssohn show on the 17-19 February 2017 in Tishinka trading centre. The workshop is welcoming new participants willing to train and join the team of craftswomen. For more information and to sign up, please call +7(495)369-00-34. The classes take place at Bolshoi Fakelny pereulok 9/11. This project is being realised in the framework of Self-Help programme supported by CatFoundation and the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF).

The inclusive theatre company Taganka shed is welcoming the Pancake week by the performance on the 16th February on the stage of the hospitable Centre for children's creative arts Dinaoda.

Programme director of TCF Sergey Bodrov has presented the Fund's programme "Territory of solidarity - Together for the support of Family" at the Social Audit of family and children organisations by the Department of labour and social protection of the Central district of the city of Moscow on the 16th of February. The main discussion focused on the algorithm of cooperation between the state organisations and socially oriented NGOs with the aim to improve the conditions for families with children. The Programme is being realized by the Taganka children's fund and funded by the subsidy of the Committee of public connections of the city of Moscow.