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Charitable fundraising
£11,000
The Senior School partners with Suffolk Community Foundation to select a local Suffolk charity to support during one term of each academic year. This helps ensure that money raised in Suffolk stays in Suffolk, and can also assist smaller charities with much needed finance FIND - Families in Need - was chosen by pupils in the Lent term of 2018. Pupils raised money and collected items for food parcels, while the charity was also supported by the Friends of Ipswich School at their Summer Ball.
TOTAL RAISED: £6,601
Suffolk Mind and Ipswich Town Pastors were chosen as the charities for Michaelmas Term 2018.
TOTAL RAISED: £4,567
Pupils’ charity fundraising In the Summer Term of 2018, each House in the Senior School was set the challenge of choosing charities and raising money to support them. Doughnut eating competitions, cake and sweet sales, a charity obstacle course and a team being sponsored to run the Woodbridge 10k race were just some of the successful events. Pupils also enjoyed a village style summer fete on the school field organised by Holden House. Over £1,000 was raised by this event for Cancer Research UK.
TOTAL RAISED: £2,689
Ipswich Prep School selects one major charity to support each academic year. The Ipswich Hospital Trust - Neonatal Unit was the Prep School’s charity of the year for 2017-2018. The school raised over £4,000, with more than £400 raised through House cake sales alone. In the Michaelmas Term the school learnt all about the work of a neonatal unit when three pupils and their mums gave an assembly about being born prematurely. One weighed 880 grams when she was born and children were challenged to bring in small change that weighed 880 grams. This competition raised over £235 as well as helping children understand how small premature babies are.
TOTAL RAISED: £4,903
During 2018-2019, over £5,000 was raised for Age UK Suffolk through retiring collections at concerts, cake sales, raffles and selling Suffolk strawberries at the Prep Sports Day. A highlight of the fundraising efforts was £2000 raised through filling Maltesers boxes with sponsored items. Prep School families also donated unwanted items to the Age UK Suffolk “collection pods” that were scattered throughout the school and collected food for FIND at the school’s Harvest Festival services, whilst the Suffolk Owl Sanctuary at Stonham Barns, The Children’s Society and The Royal British Legion also benefitted from fundraising.
TOTAL RAISED: £6,240
£11,000
raised by the Prep School Community in two years, for Ipswich Hospital’s Neonatal Unit, Age UK Suffolk and other charities
