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HEADINGTON COMMuNITY Charities
At Headington Prep School, our aim is to support a range of charities – locally, nationally or worldwide – with our time and thoughts and to promote empathy with those suffering hardship, thus widening the children’s awareness and understanding of the world.
At the end of each academic year, children are invited to put forward a charity which they would like the School to support. The school community can then identify the needs of others and the various ways in which help and support may be given through monetary and gift donations.The girls are encouraged throughout the year to initiate their own fundraising events and to play roles in organising such occasions and taking key decisions.
Representatives from the selected charities will come and talk to the children in assembly so that the school community can best understand how the money raised at school level will help make a difference.
A wide range of fundraising events are held, including sponsorships, cake sales, concert or performance collections, non-school uniform days and dressing-up days, karaokes, teddy days and pyjama days.
An up-to-date record of charities supported is displayed by the Dining Room and on the website, including letters of thanks, press releases, certiicates, photographs and amounts raised.
In the last few years Headington Prep has supported the NSPCC, Unicef UK, Marie Curie and more recently, Helen and Douglas House which is a locally based charity providing hospice and palliative care to children
and young adults in Oxfordshire and surrounding counties. Community links are also promoted, for example, through Harvest Festival celebrations and donations to local food banks and night shelters such as the CEF. The School also supports a number of national campaigns, e.g. Bag2school and the British Legion Poppy Appeal. National days (such as Red Nose Day, Genes for Jeans Day) are also supported where appropriate.
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