Fundraising Update

Fundraising is progressing nicely. Well done to everybody who has raised money so far – here’s a summary of what has been achieved so far.

Neha Chauhan has done some cake sales with her Mum and aunt, as well as cutting the grass and washing neighbours cars for cash. This has raised over £150 so far.

Harry Lewis and Rory Hayes joined forces to do a sponsored bike ride, cycling to Oxford (70 miles), raising almost £200 between them. Harry said it was one of the hardest things he’s ever done, but the challenge was well worth it! He has cake sales and car boot sales planned too!

Maggie Brina (pictured below) completed a sky dive, raising sponsorship and completing her College Colours award at the same time. Maggie has raised £295 from this daring venture, and she loved the experience!

 

Nick Wall has also worked with his Mum to do some cake sales at her place of work, and he has sold some items on eBay.

Alex Simpkins has got halfway to her target, raising £200 through her job and doing some dog walking. Amy Garner has also reached the £200 thanks to her job at Iceland.

Lauren Davis did the Knowle Fun Run recently and gathered sponsorship money for this. Her Mum has been helping by selling cakes and chocolates at work and a gig by her Granddad in October will add to her fundraising too. We’ll be letting everyone know more about this gig in the coming weeks and months and asking for help with this event too.

Sammy Lee and Divyani Chauhan have done cake sales and plan a supermarket bag pack, having already raised about £250 so far. Meanwhile, Alex Atkins and Lucy Buckle raised more than £140 from just one bake sale at College – the most ever raised in College from a single bake sale!

Some of the students are working with other organisations to do some fundraising. Alex A and Lucy are working with their old school (Light Hall) to organise a dance event, while Olissha Tagon and Georgia Bodfish are working with their netball team to do a fancy dress netball match and Hannah Patmore hopes to work with a dance school to hold a raffle.

Other future plans include supermarket bag packs, car boot sales, car washing, summer fetes and even redecorating relatives houses for sponsorship! These are all great ideas and now exams are out of the way, students will hopefully have some more time to crack on with fundraising over the summer!

Staff have done some fundraising too – our Easter Bake Off raised more than £290, we sold a set of golf clubs that were donated to us on eBay for £46 and money left over some a staff trip to see War Horse (£20) also went into the pot! The Quiz Night is still to come too and that’s the big one (it raised about £700 last year)!