Easter Charity Week 2024

Easter Charity Week is held to raise funds for the Foodbank.

Here are the totals for the week:

Cake Sale (with 50% going to Fairtrade Foundation) - £593.00
Golf Challenge - £34.00
Mini-Egg Sale in Prep School - £362.00
Whole School Raffle - £613
Non-Uniform Day - £653.00
This brings the total to £2,255.00

Aims

In addition to the financial aspects - included the volunteer hours of our students and staff.  

 

Our volunteering hours this week are as follows:

Years 5 and 6 - visiting nursing homes on Monday afternoon for reading and making Easter baskets for residents - x75 students/ x2 hours = 150 hours
Year 12 - Foodbank Warehouse visit to complete remaining 100 KLP boxes  - x8 students/ x2 hours = 16 hours
The Travelling Band and Mr Deacon - St Richard's Hospital Visit – x 5 students/ x2 hours - 10
This brings our total to 176 hours

 

Background

 Charity Council annually runs Charity Week  and this year it coincided with Easter.   

Resources

Noted above - Charity Council lead student and staff in the events.  

Impact

Improvement financially and resource for the Foodbank along with the volunteer hours for improvement in people's live and wellbeing.  

Feedback from the St Richard's Hospital visit 

The staff and patients at The Donald Wilson Rehabilitation Unit at St Richard's have asked me to pass on their sincere appreciation for giving up your time today to treat everybody to a musical performance. You may not be aware, but many of the patients who you saw today, have already spent several months in other areas of the Hospital, including the Intensive Care Unit, and many will spend further weeks, or months, in hospital, with a long recovery ahead of them.  I saw for myself what an impact you had on the patients, and I also wanted to share some of the comments I received: -

Thank you so much - I am visiting my husband and life is very tough at the moment, and you have made me and my husband very happy this morning.

 

Please can they come again - I feel alive!

That was absolutely joyous - please thank them - what a brilliant teacher, and what lovely young men - thank you!

You cheered up a miserable Friday morning - I loved it!

Victoria Harmshaw - Ward Matron - said; “Well, that was joyful, fun, wonderful, and a little emotional! I saw two of my male patients point at each other when they sang "I get a little help from my friends" and one of our patients, who never leaves her room, joined in, and spontaneously started clapping along to "We Will Rock You"  I cannot thank you enough for coming along - you have boosted us all, and it will be the talk of the ward for quite a while!  You are most welcome to return anytime - we are going to have a summer party and we would love to welcome the band again!"

 

Pupil Involvement

All students - all ages. 

Frequency

Annual Charity week.