CHARITY Charity lunches, quiz nights and a charity revue raised over £3,000 for Mary’s Meals , this year’s Chapel charity, which provides over 2½ million meals each day to keep children in school in some of the poorest countries in the world. Second-hand clothing was collected for the Turing School Welfare Bank to help Eastbourne families. The Charity Society sponsored the Community Chest , providing hampers during the festive season. Blackwater raised over £700 for the Little Princess Trust from their revue and Christmas Candy Canes (and Kirsty Williams notably running the Bath half marathon). Craig raised over £500 for SUDC UK (Sudden Unexplained Death in Children) through their revue and a Summer Fair. Gonville raised over £800 for the Matthew 25 Mission at their revue. Nugent raised £250 at their revue for the Multiple Sclerosis Society . Pennell raised over £300 from their revue and Easter Egg sales for Art4Kids , a charity supporting Ukrainian children. In Powell , Sloane Tennant raised over £1,700 for WaterAid as he (virtually) rowed 500 miles of the Zambezi River. Reeves raised £530 for Brain Tumour Research . School House raised over £500 for MIND through their revue and selling Valentine’s Day roses. In Wargrave , Brooke Haycock (with Monty Dean from Reeves) walked 100km to raise over £1,800 for a local village charity. The house raised over £15,000 for St Peter and St James’ Hospice thanks to a 24- hour rowathon, house revue and other events. Watt raised £4,025 from a walk for You Raise Me Up , a charity supporting families that have lost a young adult. A cake sale produced over £650 for the Sanctuary Café , and the house revue raised £320 for Holding Space , a local mental health charity.
COMMUNITY Local elderly residents have been enjoying afternoon entertainment at Wednesday Club in the College dining room. The Green Team have been out and about clearing litter from the beach and the seafront. The Chaseley group members continue to visit severely disabled residents up at Chaseley Trust , with games of Chess and Monopoly, as well as helping at craft sessions and in their physiotherapy department. A small group of pupils have been cleaning and maintaining wheelchairs for the Shopmobility Service in the Beacon Centre to help less mobile Eastbourne residents enjoy their shopping trips.
A cross-house effort by Alex Chapman , Ben Davies , Will Fellows and Tom Stoner raised over £3,700 for the cancer charity Race for Life, and a recent Old Eastbournian Maia Mountain undertook a 144km Jungle Challenge in Costa Rica to raise money for MIND . The Charity Society supported her and together with others outside the College she raised over £16,000. The College Harvest Appeal for Eastbourne Foodbank donated 300 quality meals, and the sale of poppies and the collection from Remembrance Sunday raised £500 for the Poppy Appeal .
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