Charity achievements

Yesterday we held our final non-uniform day of the year. Students were invited to bring in £1 (or more) in exchange for wearing non-uniform, in order to raise money for the Bobath Centre for children with cerebral palsy. The Bobath Centre is a national charity with a vision to improve the independence, health and well-being of those living with cerebral palsy – the most common physical childhood disability, affecting one in 400 children in the UK. The Bobath Centre aims to help each child achieve their potential by providing specialist physio, occupational and speech & language therapy tailored to their individual needs, and also supports families, and trains therapists and health professionals working in schools, hospitals and communities.

We also held a retiring collection at Prize Giving on Monday and gratefully received £633 which, when added to the fundraising activities from non-uniform day and the rest of the academic year, totals just over £12,750. From this we have been able to make donations to an impressive range of charities, with the amounts spanning £45 to £2,000.

From this year’s fundraising we have been able to donate to the work of the following organisations:

• Jeans 4 Genes
• CAFOD
• Macmillan Cancer Care
• Plan UK
• Breast Cancer Now
• the CJ (Congregation of Jesus) Sisters in Zimbabwe
• Save the Children
• the Royal British Legion
• Children in Need
• EducAid in Sierra Leone
• Arthur Rank Hospice
• Walking with the Wounded
• the Mercury Phoenix Trust
• Mercy Ships
• the Glenfield Hospital ECMO appeal
• National AIDS Trust
• MentalEd
• the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity
• the Glanfield Children’s Group
• Teenage Cancer Trust
• Cancer Research UK
• and the Alzheimer’s Society