CHARITIES
At Surbiton High Girls’ Preparatory School, we actively encourage and support girls to participate in a range of fundraising activities. Numerous fundraising events are held and celebrated throughout the year, reinforcing the School’s motto ‘May Love Always Lead Us’ and supporting the ethos to serve and respect others. At the start of the academic year, all girls are given the opportunity to nominate a charity for the School to support over the course of a term. They are required to give a short presentation to the Charity Committee, detailing the reasons why the charity is important to them and why we should support them. They also outline their ideas for fundraising events. Six to eight of these charities are shortlisted and are then presented to the whole School, who then have the unenviable task of voting for the two pupil-chosen charities that will be supported over the coming year.
SPEAR Charity
In addition, two years ago, our Year 6 leadership team were instrumental in developing a relationship with a local homeless charity called SPEAR. We will also be continuing our support for them as a whole School, bringing the total number of charities supported each year to three. We invite a representative from the charities to present an assembly to the School in order to broaden the girls’ knowledge of the importance of the charity. This year, the whole School has been involved with charity fundraising, with year groups organising and running their own events. Events have included a hugely popular ‘Gunk the Teachers’ event as well as a movie afternoon, coin collection, Easter fun week and numerous cake sales and raffles.
