On Monday our Charities and Amnesty Reps gave a fantastic assembly, featuring our upcoming Harvest Collection and our current charities and volunteering initiatives.

On Tuesday October 10th we are asking for donations to our Harvest Collection which will be distributed to the Ealing Foodbank. This year, the charity is asking specifically for these donations (no tea, pasta or fresh food, please):

• Sweet and savoury biscuits
• Breakfast cereal (no porridge)
• Rice
• Long life fruit juice and squash
• UHT milk (not skimmed)
• Mayo, ketchup and brown sauce
• Tinned rice pudding and custard
• Chickpeas and kidney beans
• Non-dairy milk – soya, oat, 
• Jam and peanut butter
• Drinking chocolate
• Nappies – sizes 4,5, and 6
• Shampoo, shower gel, hand soap, shaving foam & razors, deodorant, toothpaste

Last year we donated an incredible one tonne (or the equivalent weight of four polar bears!) of food for Harvest so we would love to match or beat that this year! 

We would also be very grateful if you could also include sanitary products and knickers (all sizes) which will be donated to Sanitation 4 Sisters – a charity recently set up by NHEHS Year 13 and Amnesty Rep Venus to help tackle period poverty. Sanitation 4 Sisters has partnered with The Marylebone Project to help distribute products to the women they support who need them most. The charity has already raised over £3,500. 

A big thank you to our parent-staff team who ran the Ealing Half Marathon for our designated local Ealing charity, The Log Cabin, on September 25th and all those who supported them, both financially and on the route! Read more about it here. Our donations page is still open here. 

A group of students travelled to Hayes last week to visit children in a Care 4 Calais hostel. The children were very excited to see our students who brought board games together with craft and colouring activities as well as books donated last term as part of our Children’s Book Project collection. They were thrilled to receive them! We are also aiming to organise a party for the children towards the end of term, when we hope to give out small gift bags for children ahead of Christmas. 

Our Reps also spoke of their own personal experiences of volunteering to encourage other students to do the same. Abbi spoke about her shifts as a volunteer on the ward at West Middlesex Hospital, which she found highly rewarding.  Bella and Venus also shared videos and stories from their volunteering trip to Ghana this summer.

Finally, the Charity Reps were delighted to announce that the very successful Macmillan Coffee Morning had already raised over £900 (and still counting!). 

Thank you for your continued support and generosity.