Community Service Programme and Fundraising
Through our community service programme, all pupils in Year 12 undertake about an hour a week of community service. Their activities are certainly
wide-ranging, from offering their help on a dairy farm to tutoring younger pupils and creating clubs to promote the role of women in STEM subjects.
Pupils also impressed with their volunteering during lockdown demonstrating initiative and a palpable sense of social responsibility, supporting others during a time of significant need.
Since 2019, 180 pupils have enrolled in the
Duke of Edinburgh Award with wide ranging
volunteering activities at the core of their
experience.
Fundraising
In recent years, City girls have taken part in various fundraising events for a range of charitable causes. Our annual RAG week (raising and giving
week) takes place in the spring term. During this
week events took place daily and included an
Australian themed bake sale where the money was
donated to the Australian Red Cross, Staff Mr and
Mrs, Bingo, our annual talent show – City’s Got
Talent, and staff University Challenge.
In February 2020, pupils also held a charity food and donations drive in aid of the charity Care4Calais, with form Mission representatives organising and collecting generous donations of the
most needed items to send to Calais to support asylum seekers.
In October 2020, as part of our annual Black History Month celebrations, we raised £420 for the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust. CEO Sonia Watson wrote “I wanted to write to extend our sincere gratitude to all at City; we are privileged that you have chosen to support our important work in tackling inequality in all its forms.”
We would also like to highlight some examples of pupils’ independent fundraising during the Lockdown period:
As part of the 2.6 Challenge, Molly (Y8) completed 26 challenges (e.g burpees, jump squats) repeating them 26 times. She then completed a 2.6 mile run! Molly’s family managed to raise £3000 for Jewish Care. Marie (Y9), cartwheeled 2.6km in her back garden (325 laps). Marie managed to raise just under £400 for Marie Curie, Dogs Trust, and
the NHS Fund North London.
In July 2020, Evie in Year 13 wrote a play
during the lockdown period and she and some
others performed it over Zoom. Money raised
went to Women’s Aid and pupils raised an
impressive £1,504 through this virtual event.
In recognition of the pupils’ efforts, Flora from
Women’s Aid said “This will make such a huge
difference to our work supporting women and
children. We can’t thank you enough for all
your hard work and support.”
In June 2021, pupils raised significant funds for our partner charity, Streetchild through an 11 mile walk undertaken by CLSG pupils and staff. Through match funding, the figure raised was £38,632.20.
Pupils have also raised money for Action Aid and Beateating Disorders charities, as well as raising money for World Mental Health Day.
Recent efforts to support Afghan refugees in our community included a huge gift appeal in partnership with City Police.
We continue to run our Bra bank, with pupils donating unwanted bras which are repurposed and used to support small businesses in Africa where bras remain too expensive to produce locally.