BY DAVID BROWN
A charity has abandoned plans to hold extra school lessons for disadvantaged children after spending its grants staging a loss-making concert.
The Anglo-African Youth Association invested more than £5,000, including a £4,600 National Lottery grant, in a concert organised by former BBC television newsreader and Hendon resident Charles Aniagolu.
It expected last monthÍs event to raise at least £40,000 to help pay for its planned Saturday lessons to be held at Harrow High School, in Gayton Road.
But because of the concert losses it had to scrap classes for 12 GCSE pupils from Brent, Harrow and Barnet due to start last month and has abandoned lessons planned for a further 20 children.
Mr Aniagolu, from Quadrant Close, Hendon, was appointed chief executive of the associationÍs Millennium charity event in January. He was unavailable for comment.
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