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SERVICE HIGHLIGHTS
From the day they start at the College, pupils have time to participate in a breadth of activities that enrich and broaden their experience and give them opportunities to develop teamwork, leadership and other important life skills.
Wargrave 24-hour rowathon raised over £3,500 in aid of Eastbourne Foodbank
Charity
Pupils, staff and the College community organised a broad range
of initiatives in support of a variety of charities. The whole school collection at the beginning of term, charity lunches, retiring collections and Harvest Appeal raised £2,500 towards the Chapel Charity Fund shared between the Winter Night Shelter, Eastbourne Foodbank and to support local refugees. The charity revue was a sell-out and raised £600 for World Wildlife Fund in Australia to help animals rescued from the bushfires.
Elo Quitmann and Liv Jayaraj, charity revue
Houses raised money for a variety of causes:
• Blackwater sold candy canes at Christmas for You Raise Me Up, and also raised funds at their house revue
• Craig raised awareness and money for Kawasaki disease
• Gonville raised money towards Mental Health UK at their house revue
• Nugent contributed towards the Sam West Foundation and the NHS
• Pennell supported Eastbourne Foodbank
• Powell raised funds for Embrace East Sussex which helps those with special needs and the disabled
• Reeves supported Volunteer Zambia
• School sold Valentine Flowers in aid of local Children’s Variety Charity
• Wargrave completed Rowathon in support of Eastbourne Foodbank
• Watt ran cake sale for Children in Need.
Other initiatives included sixth form textiles pupils taking part in a Glad Rags charity event for St Wilfrid’s,Tim Laverack and Melody Woodham organising a concert in aid of a local dementia charity, and a large number of pupils joining Jess Simmonds for a neon aerobics session to support Great Ormond Street.
Watt cake sale in aid of Children in Need
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Neon aerobics in aid of Great Ormond Street