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Charity Fundraising in College

Each academic year College chooses six charities from nominations by the staff and girls on which to concentrate our fundraising efforts. While we would like to help as many organisations as possible, choosing a smaller number means the six chosen charities can each benefit substantially from a larger donation. It also enables College to build up a relationship with each of the charities, giving girls the opportunity to find out more about them and their work. Several girls have even gone on to take gap year placements with some of the chosen organisations.

Several fundraising events are held throughout the year including the popular College fête in May, annual talent show and many activities and events arranged by the girls themselves. In 2008 - 2009 a total of £30,000 was raised and shared between the six chosen charities.

For the current year we are supporting the following organisations:


International Spinal Research

This cause was chosen in order to support the care of one of our pupils, following a car accident in which her mother lost her life and she was seriously paralysed.  

The Charity raises money to provide therapies that will restore movement and feeling and transform the lives of paralysed people caused by a broken back or neck.  They also fund research around the world into clinical treatments as well as vital basic medical research into spinal paralysis.  www.spinal-research.org 

Operation Smile

Operation Smile is a worldwide children’s medical charity treating children and young adults with cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities.  More than 130,000 have been treated by thousands of volunteers worldwide and thousands of medical professionals have been trained globally.  Operation Smile currently has a presence in 51 countries. www.operationsmile.org

Music and Change

Music and Change is an exciting project for young people aged 14-30 years in the London borough of Camden.  Designed by young people for young people, with the support of the voluntary, health and business sectors, the Charity works with some of London’s most challenging and marginalised young people.  Using music as a tool for promoting positive mental health, community integration and employment, young people co-design and co-facilitate the workshops and each participant has a one-to-one mentor. One in three young people who offend have underlying mental health difficulties such as low self-esteem or low self-confidence and MAC seeks to get to the heart of these issues and to give support where needed. www.musicandchange.com

The Cheetah Conservation Fund

Based mainly in Namibia and Kenya, CCF is an internationally recognised centre of excellence in research and education on cheetahs and their eco-systems, working to achieve best practice in the conservation and management of the world's cheetahs.  Today, there are approximately 10,000 of these endangered cats remaining in Africa and Asia but numbers are declining rapidly.  The vast majority of cheetahs live in small, isolated groups outside protected game reserves where they are often in conflict with humans and livestock: CCF works to find ways of conservation which avoid this conflict.www.cheetah.org

The National Star College

An independent, specialist college based in Gloucestershire, England for residential and full-time day learners, all of whom are aged between 16 and 25, and have physical disabilities and/or acquired brain injuries, alongside associated learning, behavioural, sensory and medical difficulties. The full -time educational provision includes a range of pre-vocational and vocational programmes at foundation, intermediate level, and at advanced levels.  Programmes include visual and performing arts, information and communication technology, business administration, health and social care, sport and recreation, and preparation for life and work. www.natstar.ac.uk

The Enaikishomi Nursery School, Kenya

This school was founded in memory of Amy Elgar, a former CLC pupil. It is a unique joint venture between the local Maasai community and a group of donors particularly concerned with sustainable development.   The main purpose of the Trust is to create a sustainable school. For example, it has provided solar panels to create electricity; modern wood-burning cookers to conserve scarce woodstocks and planted local native trees to provide fuel for the future.  A 140 metre deep borehole now fills large storage tanks with water which a solar powered pump distributes to the school and to the local community.www.lewa.org/downloads/Lewa-education-trust-October-2007

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