Students raise record amount for charity
Posted on Thursday 5 January 2012
A festive occasion as cheques presented
Student Association present money to local charities at Christmas singalong
On the lunchtime of 15th December the Prospect Theatre was packed out for the annual Christmas Singalong with College students, pupils from St Bernadette’s Catholic Primary School, and representatives from the Royal British Legion, Step By Step, the Army and the Police. They came to get in the festive spirit by singing carols and Christmas songs and to see the presentation of money raised by the students this year to various charities.
The student body led by the Student Association raised an incredible £13, 980 in just one term during Autumn 2011, more than they raised in the whole of the last academic year. The highlight of the Singalong event was the presentation of a cheque for £8000 to Step By Step to support their work with homeless young people in the area. Each tutor group in College sponsored one of their tutor reps to sleep out for a night in November on the College site and collected as much as possible for Step By Step in an inter-tutor group competition to raise the most money. The £8000 raised is a really remarkable achievement and will make a real impact on the valuable work of Step By Step.
The Royal British Legion were also there to accept a cheque for £1000 which was raised by selling poppies at the world record attempt largest human poppy in November. The other money raised during the Autumn Term was in aid of Jeans for Genes, the Breast Cancer Campaign, Children In Need and Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Beanie Watson, the SA Charities Officer, gave her reaction to the term’s fundraising, ‘It is amazing to have raised so much and I really want to thank all those students who have done so much to make it happen’.
The Singalong was a wonderful end to an amazing term and the Student Association have now set their sights on raising much more for good causes in 2012.
