Pupils raise £17,500 from Charity Week
16 Oct 2007
Solihull School's youngest pupils were the toast of their older colleagues after making a big slice of the staggering £17,558 the school raised from its annual charity week. The boys and girls from the Junior School collected an impressive £2,323 from making toasties for their seniors, along with selling drinks and holding competitions, representing more than a quarter of the £8,738 proceeds from Charity 2007. The impressive figure was topped up with another £8,820 from the collection of 588 bags of jumble for Acorn's Children's Hospice.
Fund-raising activities throughout the school included a Battle of the Bands, staff karaoke, and a hockey match between the girls' First XI hockey team and the boys' rugby first team. Other events included a charity debate with the motion that the house would ‘rather be a guy than a girl’, charity car parking, and staff versus students badminton and basketball matches. The total cash raised will be split evenly between British Red Cross, National Childrens' Homes, The Joshua Foundation, and Caminul Felix, a children's home in Romania.
Faye Holden, the teacher in charge of Charity 2007, said: “All our pupils put in a tremendous effort to raise what was a very impressive sum for such worthy causes.”
Issued on behalf of Solihull School by Lois Burley PR Ltd (0121 666 7003). For more details, please contact Faye Holden on 0121 705 0958.
Enjoying a slice of the action during Solihull School’s charity week are toastie-makers Isaac Webber, Amran Thandi, Ryan Inman, Fraser Waddell, Jack Hines, Joe Lankester and Nick Starkey
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