Charity Report Spring Term 2019 by the Year 13 Senior Charity Prefects, Mansi and Katie
During the Spring term, each year group has been busy supporting many charities, working hard to raise lots of money and collectively have helped so many people locally and within the wider community, both in the UK and around the world. There has been an amazing variety of events and we are very proud of the incredible amount of money that LHS pupils, parents and staff have all raised together.
This term year 7 have held many charity events such as a sponsored silence, cake, doughnut and cookie sales for Cancer Research UK. As a year group they have raised a grand total of £787, with 7AEF being the top fundraisers in their year with £413. Year 8 have also done some fantastic fundraising this term supporting the Little Princess Trust. They have raised £346 through sponsorships, cake sales and a photography competition. 8GFT have raised the most in the year group with £202.
With a pastry sale, cake sales and a tombola, Year 9 have done a great job of raising money for the Rosie May Foundation. 9MW are the year 9 top fundraisers with £105, and as a year group they all raised a grand total of £284. Year 10 have held events such as a year group breakfast, and cake sales raising a total of £259 for Save the Rhino. 10EE raised most in the year group with £70. Year 11 held a year group dodgeball match and a charity breakfast this term, raising a total of £229.60 for Rebuilding Sri-Lanka.
Year 12 have been incredible in their fundraising this term for Refuge, with endless pizza sales, a cake sale and a very successful valentine’s roses sale to LSF students and staff campus wide. This term year 12 have raised an amazing £410, with £355 of that raised entirely by 12JAL!
Year 13 have done some impressive fundraising for JDRF with A LOT of pizza sales, classic cake sales, samosa sale and of course 13EH’s Bake Off. They have raised an outstanding £690 for JDRF with 13AMW raising nearly £320 towards the total. A further £409 was raised by Prianka and Mansi in year 13, together raising an incredible £409 for the British Heart Foundation through the Dechox campaign, bringing the year 13 total to £1,130.
Staff have also been incredibly generous this term, raising £253, by taking part in non-uniform days and contributing at the events for our chosen charities, by buying cakes and raffle tickets plus generously giving up their time to take part in many events such as all the food sales, movie nights, breakfast sales and the danceathon.
As a School, we have held several non-uniform days this half term, including one for Refuge raising £568, one for VSU raising £522 and one for Comic Relief, where we raised £572 but additionally, let’s not forget the incredible danceathon which raised a further £301 taking the total to an amazing £873. In addition, we raised £107 from the donations in assembly for DEC Cyclone Idai Appeal.
The now annual sponsorship appeal, that some of our parent’s kindly support, has so far raised £4607 this term by sponsoring food packages, uniform and education for Galpoththa School, our link school through the Rebuilding Sri Lanka charity. We would like to say a huge thank you to all the teachers, charity reps and year 12 charity team for their support and help whilst pupils organise and plan events. We would particularly like to say thank you to our caretakers and Mr. Thompson for their support, ensuring our events run smoothly and of course we must thank Ms. Shipman for all of her hard work and help with charity this term. Most of all thank you to the parents and LHS pupils for supporting all the events. This brings us to our totals for this term – an incredible £10,289 has been raised for all of the amazing year group charities, giving us a total of an outstanding £21,272!