Students at Haberdasher’s Monmouth Schools have taken steps to support a locally-based charity working with disadvantaged children overseas. Students have donated shoes to Hands Around The World, which will be given to secondary school-aged children in Zambia. Ngum Mofo, a Year 11 pupil and Charity Monitor at Monmouth School for Girls, said: “If children in Zambia do not have shoes, they are...
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Students from Burgess Hill Girls have created a special hat for an inspirational cancer awareness campaigner to wear during the New York marathon. Sara Cutting, who has raised £35,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support since being diagnosed with breast cancer four years ago, is running the New York Marathon on 4th November. Rohaise Flint, assistant head at Burgess Hill Girls, said: “As soon as Sara...
Tonbridge School students recently dressed in pink to show their support for breast cancer charities. Pupils wore a variety of pink clothing for the school’s annual Pink Day on Friday. Teachers and support staff also joined in with the spirit of the day in order to increase awareness of the disease and raise funds to support research. Competitions were run to find the Best Dressed Individual (Ben...
A group of pupils from Felsted School took a life changing trip to Uganda this summer to see how they have been making a difference through the Teach Uganda charity scheme. The organisation provides vital education to children living near the Bwindi Rainforest. Two years ago, Felsted’s partner school, Great Lakes High School, started up their very own A- level programme using money raised by the...
24 students and four staff members travelled to Malawi for three weeks at the start of the summer holidays, carrying out a variety of charitable work. For the first few days, the team were based in Blantyre and spent time with the babies at Open Arms, also helping to dig a pit for an eco-toilet. The group then spent two days in Mvuu Game Park before travelling to Chankasi School on the shores of Lake...
Roald Dahl Day More than £2,000 was raised from a series of charitable events at Rydal Penrhos Preparatory School throughout the academic year. The school continued its work for regional and national causes thanks to the hard work of both staff and pupils at the site, in addition to receiving support from the Friends of Rydal Penrhos committee. The fundraising began with a Roald Dahl Day, before...
A pupil from Felsted School has raised over £15,000 in aid of the Sparkle Foundation. Gustav Burton, 15, drives for Team Pyro in the Renault Clio Cup Junior Championships and began the season in his specially designed ‘Sparkle Car’, donating 100% of the proceeds from sponsorship advertising to the organisation. The money will be used to build classrooms, toilets and an office at its orphanage in...