Cokethorpe School

Fundraising for Charity

Both the Senior School and the Junior School are heavily involved in a number of charities. In addition, there is a whole School fast day once a term when no snacks are allowed during the day and bread and soup is served for lunch. There are a small number of non-uniform days in aid of a designated charity.

Lower First for Third Form have a series of PSHE lessons on charities and each tutor group chooses its own charity, which is often personal to them. They then research this charity and create a poster explaining why they chose it, as well as holding fundraising events. This varies from a cake sale to a sponsored event.

The Sixth Form support a school in Lesotho, Southern Africa, and also support the local charity Helen and Douglas House, holding regular truffle sales to help raise funds.

The staff also raise money for their chosen charity, Marie Curie Cancer Care, by selling daffodils to pupils and staff and also by holding a raffle at the staff annual ball.

The Senior School hold a 'Love in a Box' appeal every two years, when pupils and staff pack shoeboxes with Christmas gifts for children. These are then distributed, by the Mustard Seed Relief Missions, to schools, churches, refugee camps, orphanages and hospitals in Croatia, Bosnia, Romania, Ukraine and Iraq.  Similarly the Junior School hold their Operation Christmas Child appeal each year, with over 220 Christmas boxes donated and then sent to children in poor or war-torn countries (including Eastern Europe and Africa).

The Junior School holds a Summer Fair each year which raises over £2,000 for their chosen charity the Nasio Trust. They have also raised money for Cancer Research through a 'Pound a Poem' appeal, and filled a box of stationary for the children at the school in Lesotho for the Sixth Form students to take when they visited. The Junior School has also raised over £4,200 during a sponored walk in aid of Cecily's Fund.

Cecily's Fund Sponsored Walk

Cecily's Fund Sponsored Walk

In July 2008 a group of Sixth Form students visited Lesotho, Southern Africa to see how their fundraising efforts had been used to help a secondary school in the village.  Click here for a report and photos.