Overview of Fundraising 2024/25

Young Minds (#HelloYellow)- £302.27
Save the Children (Christmas Jumper Day) - £396.22
Restless Triathlon - £1,269
Small Steps Charity (Year 6 Summer Fair) - £840

Non-Financial Charity Work
This academic year saw our pupils take a very hands-on approach with regular volunteering at supermarket foodbanks on behalf of Dons Local Action Group (DLAG), our local chosen charity.  The school also holds 'Foodbank Friday' for DLAG monthly and in December a number of pupils took to Centre Court for Carol Singing. With a mission to fight the effects of poverty in South West London, DLAG is a community of volunteers supporting people facing severe financial hardship across the area. 

Our Year 6 pupil, Oscar A, galvanised a team of volunteers from the Prep School to help out at the Care Pack UK charity, packing backpacks with essential items and resources for homeless individuals and those sleeping rough in the UK. 

Other initiatives included a number of elderly home visits from our pupils across the year groups. These visits help the elderly feel more connected to their communities and provide our pupils with valuable lessons and real-world social experiences. 

And, as always, our annual harvest festival assembly saw tables laden with generous donations from our families in support of The Wimbledon Guild. 




 

 

Overview of Fundraising 2023/24

World Wildlife Fund - £916
Young Minds - £339.70

Harvest Festival
We were delighted to welcome back Mrs Robinson from The Wimbledon Guild to hold our Harvest Festival assembly. As always, our hugely generous Willington families donated a variety of goods to be allocated to their Homefood Cafe,  Activities Lounge and the Merton Women's Refuge.

Whilst we continued to support Wimbledon Guild as our local charity, we were delighted to raise money for the World Wildlife Fund. A whole school assembly kick-started the fundraising, inspiring initiatives such as the Year 6 Summer Fair and a School Council event.

Funds were also raised for Young Minds.

 

Each year the Willington community selects two charities on which to focus their fundraising activities. For this year we will be raising money for Save the Children and Dons Local Action Group. Click on the links to find out more.  

For Harvest Festival, we once more gathered donations for the Wimbledon Guild, recognising the vital work they carry out in the community. We were delighted to welcome Mrs Robinson (below) who thanked the children for their donations.

 

 

 

 

In addition, we took part in the YoungMinds event, #HelloYellow, on 10th October. We have been supporting this organisation for a number of years. We admire the way they break the taboo of mental health awareness in a way that children and young people can relate to. Our HelloYellow day raised £324.55 for this worthwhile cause.

 

Every year the Willington community raises many thousands of pounds for charity. This academic year, 2021-2022, we have been predominantly raising money for our two charities, UNICEF and, locally, the Wimbledon Guild. We have in addition raised further funds for specific charities on their charity days, ie Christmas Jumper Day. 

We are committed to ensuring Willington pupils understand the variety of different charitable needs and encourage a focus on the local community, children and foreign aid.

Many of our fundraising activities support the mental health charities we work closely with, such as Place2Be, who also provide training for our Mental Health Champions.

Charitable donations to date (academic year 2021/22) published May 2022

UNICEF: £1888 was raised during World Book Day

Restless Development: £4535 was raised at the schools triathlon day at Royal Russell (of this amount £1043 goes to UNICEF)

Christmas Jumper Day (Save the Children): £122.40

Hello Yellow: £440

Odd Socks Day: £303

Place2Be: - £133.20

Individual Fundraisers: We are proud of our pupils who, outside of the School environment, take part in fundraising activities either individually or in small groups as they have a clear understanding that everyone can make a difference.

Year 6 pupils Ishaan, Sam and Neil raised £856

Total: £8277.60

Non Financial Charity work: 

Wrap up London: In December we worked with one of our Year 4 parents to collect coats from families to send to homeless shelters across London. 

Harvest Festival: The school collected vast amounts of food for our local charity, Wimbledon Guild.

Holiday Camps - we run a number of holiday camps on site for the benefit of our pupils and children from other local schools.