DULWICH COLLEGE and the
CHILDREN’ S CHARITY
Pupils of Dulwich College are pleased to support the Wings of Hope Children’s Charity. Wings of Hope (WOH) is run as a social enterprise that encourages young people to organise fund-raising events (with minimal adult support), which enable the charity to establish primary schools in India and Malawi. WOH is dedicated to inculcating life skills in children in the UK, as well as transforming education abroad, and looks to reward those who commit to supporting it with aspirational visits to Oxford and Cambridge, and with speed-mentoring events, such as that enjoyed by Year 9 students Mitchell Simmonds and George Kingsley-Moore .
E arly in the Lent term, all boys in Year 9 were given a chance to participate in a fantastic fundraising opportunity with the Wings of Hope Children’s Charity (WOH). Through the planning and organising of various money- spinning activities and events, The Wings of Hope Achievement Award (WOHAA) gives students the opportunity to raise funds for children in India and Malawi who do not have access to free primary education. As part of this programme, WOH offers a range of opportunities for all students involved in fundraising for its cause. It so happened, therefore, that one Saturday afternoon at the beginning of March, we rather excitedly attended the Speed Mentoring Event 2014 at the Royal College of Surgeons in Holborn. The event allowed us to spend ten-minute slots over a two-hour period with professionals from over 30 industries, including banking, law, medicine, fashion, PR, event management, music production, acting and aviation. As we took our seats for the opening of the event, Richard Whitehead MBE, the Paralympic Champion who won a gold medal at the London 2012 Paralympic Games, took to the stage and gave an inspirational speech that set
the tone for the whole afternoon. We were also treated to speeches from Lady Juliet McNally and the British Airways pilot, Loraine Hancock. Already raring to go, we did not need any prompting as the gong sounded to confirm the beginning of the session and we both, along with 400 other equally excited teenagers, chose the first table that we wanted to visit. This happened to be the Legal area and as the mentors, two young barristers, began to speak we had visions of ourselves as famous lawyers holding court in The Old Bailey! This theme continued all afternoon. As we listened to surgeons and pilots, we could see ourselves saving lives one minute and looking dashing in our aviation uniforms the next. The two hours seemed to fly by and before we knew it the event was over. After an afternoon of such invaluable advice given to us directly from young professionals themselves, we returned home thoroughly inspired. The only question left for us both was would we become surgeons or lawyers, architects or pilots. Thanks to WOH we can now begin to see some of the ways in which to turn our dreams into reality.
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