Donate your old camera to a charity!

In October I arranged a photoshoot at the Salmon Youth Centre in Bermondsey. Myself and around 10 other photographers spent a day there taking photographs for over 40 individuals and families as part of a day based around the Help Portrait model.

From that I am trying to help out with their project to develop (no pun intended) some photography capability at the Centre. However, funds were scarce to start with and now that the Government is reducing its spending, the Centre has seen its budget from the Government dwindle. So buying used cameras is not going to happen.

Instead I have put an advert in my village magazine and so far we have 3 SLRs and 3 compacts plus a small flash. It would be lovely to increase this number slightly, especially to gain a few simple flash guns and a stock of 35mm print film, even if its been in your freezer for years would be fantastic.

So if you're reading this in your coffee break and have an old 35mm camera gathering dust, waiting to try its luck on ebay or a trip to te charity shop, please let me or the Salmon Centre, Old Jamaica Road, London, SE1 know about it because the Centre can offer it a new lease of life with the children and teenagers who attend.