Charity

Boys from Bedford School have transformed a 70s disco song into an ode to growing a moustache – to raise awareness of mens’ health and mental well-being. The group of around 80 Upper Sixth Form students, known as the MoBros, have been taking part in Movember, setting up a host of activities and sporting challenges for the school community to get involved in. The charity campaign, which runs...

A Felsted Prep School pupil has raised over £1,500 for two charities, as well as having her hair cut and donated to the Little Princess Trust, who make wigs for children and young people with hair loss. Ellie B, aged 8 from Ashdon in Essex, donated 12 inches of her hair after growing it during the first lockdown She was inspired by her friend Charlie, who lost his hair when he was four years old....

Students and their families, former students and staff from St Swithun’s school recently took part in the annual St Swithun’s Way Challenge, raising £18,000 for its Bramston Bursary Foundation fund for girls in, or on the brink of care. The 295 participants covered a total of 1,795 miles wherever they were around the world, including New Zealand, China and the USA. Individually each ran distances...

Students from across Bruton School for Girls have donated hygiene products to the Choose Love charity, which helps refugees in Greece who have been impacted by the Moira Camp fires. In the first charity event of the new academic year, girls collected essential items including toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo, shower gel and sanitary products. The collection was organised by the school’s charity...

The Ollie Feast Trust, in conjunction with The Leys, has provided sports packs to help families supported by the Red Hen Project. Since 2016, the annual four-day Ollie Feast Activity Camp has taken place every July at The Leys School in Cambridge. The Ollie Feast Trust, set up by Ollie’s father, Steve, was developed as a memorial to Ollie who died in 2015. The event aims to help disadvantaged...

Kingswood School has continued its community outreach work during the COVID-19 pandemic. The school joined with other local independent schools in a mass effort to make more protective visors and distribute them around Bath to GPs, care centres and the RUH. Mr Barney Brown, Head of DT, used 3D printing to make PPE and cut the face shields at home in a makeshift workshop. Volunteer pupils and staff...

Bishop’s Stortford College Prep School's fundraising efforts have exceeded all expectations. In September 2019, the School launched their fundraising initiatives for the academic year. Over the 10 months that followed, pupils spearheaded various events and activities including collecting foreign notes and coins to convert into sterling, organising a ‘Guess The Baby’ Competition, performing in...

Pupils at Oswestry School have raised over £2,000 in one term for a local charity. From September to Christmas, pupils collected money from a home clothes day, a Christmas Enterprise Fair, the School’s Founder’s Day celebrations and a bake sale held by the Interact group. Oswestry School parent, Sally Johnson, founded The Harry Johnson Trust in November 2014 following the death of seven year old...

The Tonbridge School community raised over £113,000 for charities during the last academic year. The total sets a school record for funds raised in a single year, with the funds donated to more than 20 local, national and international charities. The main school fundraiser for the year raised enough to build and equip a Child Development Centre for the poorest children in Sri Lanka, and each of the...

Felsted School have continued their mission to make a difference both locally and across the globe by supporting four key charities chosen by the pupils. Felstedians took part in a sponsored 3 mile walk, raising £6,200 for Teach Uganda, The Felsted Mission, CHESS Homeless in Chelmsford and Young Minds. Vivian Beale, a Year 12 member of the Felsted Charity Team, commented: “The charity team were keen...

Boxes and boxes of edible goodies have been donated to Ely Foodbank in time for Christmas thanks to King’s Ely students, families and members of staff. The ‘Twelve Charitable Days of Christmas’ initiative was spearheaded by King’s Ely Junior and pupils in each of the school’s Houses were encouraged to bring in three different items of food and/or drink which could then be donated to the local...

Swimmers at Taunton School recently took on the challenge of swimming across the Solent to the Isle of Wight. Ten students completed the epic 5km swim in October, battling cold water, chop and a biting northerly wind. They have raised £8,000 for Aspire, the spinal injury charity. The swimmers, ranging in age from 12 through to 16, plus two members of staff, swam the stretch of water from Fort...

Year 7 pupils at Bromsgrove Prep School have raised £11,636.23 for Primrose Hospice through their Flourishing Fivers initiative. Volunteering encompasses much of the Personal, Social, Health and Economic elements of the Year 7 curriculum and the idea of Flourishing Fivers arose at the planning stages of this unit of work. There are currently 122 pupils in Year 7, so initially, the Parents’...

The school community at Bruton School for Girls organised a series of charitable events throughout November, raising over £500 for good causes. The children in the Nursery and Prep kicked-off with a marvellous day of fun for Children in Need, including a highly competitive teacher’s duck race, a teddy bear hunt, a cake sale and some dressing-up. They raised a splendid total of £110. Almost £150...

A pupil at Burgess Hill Girls recently took on her hardest personal challenge of staying silent for 24 hours, raising over £1,500 for Children in Need. Seven year old Lola Foster's fund-raising effort all started with a simple question on her walk home from school: “Mummy, what’s Children in Need?” After Mum had explained, Lola decided to do something herself to raise money.  But what could...

Staff at Taunton School have undertaken a gruelling non-stop 12 hour cycle ride to raise money for the charity, Save the Children. The “Staff Charity Fitness Challenge”, which involved cycling on a static gym bike in the front of school, commenced as the sun rose on Friday morning, finishing some 392km and 12 hours later. The aim was to cycle to “France” non-stop, with staff members pedalling as...

Sexey’s School is supporting the #FlytheFlag70 campaign this week, championed by national human rights organisations and art and theatre groups, through learning, activities and by raising the Human Rights flag designed by Ai Weiwei. The campaign marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and reminds us that human rights are for everyone, everyday. Contemporary artist...