Pupils across the three Bedales Schools (pre-prep Dunannie, Prep Dunhurst and Senior Bedales) raised a total of 
£1000 for Comic Relief through cake sales, fancy dress and red nose purchases.
Dunhurst combined fundraising with a focus on fair-trade with Dunhurst’s Ethics Committee, led by pupils, ordering fair-trade chocolate bars to sell including the Red Nose day Dubble Bar.
Dunhurst ran an assembly on fair-trade with African drumming teacher, Kristian Bediaka, who talked about the importance of buying fair-trade chocolate for the benefit of cocoa farmers and their families in Ghana. As a child as young as eight, Kristian worked on his grandmother’s cocoa farm in Ghana.
He told of the hard work and long hours for little pay and how businesses like Divine chocolate had turned that around by supporting fairer trading partnerships such as Kuapa kokoo. The total raised by Dunhurst’s fundraising was £300, which was split between the Comic Relief cause and the school’s charity, Miraflor, which supports the education of children from the coffee farming communities in Nicaragua.
At Dunannie the children wore red and funny items of clothing and paid a £1 each for the privilege, raising a total of £325, including sales of red noses.
At Bedales the students dressed up in various different comedic guises and baked lots of cakes for the benefit of an appreciative school community who donated generously raising a total of £600.
Rehearsals for the School’s official Spring Concert happened to fall on Red Nose Day, giving the chamber choir and orchestra a somewhat unusual appearance.