Team Solihull triumphes in 36km challenge to support teachers in Sri Lanka

A 100-strong team of teachers, parents, alumni and friends of Solihull School embarked on a 36km challenge walk from Solihull to Stratford Upon Avon on June 6th, along the tow paths of the Grand Union and Stratford canals, to raise funds for the wonderful Tea Leaf Trust.

Team Solihull undertook the 36km challenges to raise funds to help create and furnish a Teacher Training Centre & Community Hub in Maskeliya, Sri Lanka and build an endowment fund to ensure, in perpetuity, that affordability is not a barrier to entry for the highest calibre trainees. Support will also be given to the trainee teachers with modest cost-of-living bursaries, many of whom, and their families, live below the poverty line.

Mark Penney, Head of the Prep School, said: "The fabulous new Teacher Training Centre & Community Hub in the tea plantation region of Sri Lanka offers vital pathways out of extreme poverty for many young adults. In keeping with our efforts to optimise the good, the centre will be a net-positive energy building, generating sufficient electricity for itself and the adjacent Tea Leaf Trust School."

At the current time, fundraising has topped £27,000 and continues to grow. Find out more about supporting Team Solihull here.