From the Cornelian Association The Cornelian Association (CA), represents pupils from St Leonards, Mayfield, and from other former SHCJ schools such as Combe Bank and Harrogate, and maintains links with Mayfield in a number of ways. These include organising the annual Cornelian Association Awards, and supporting the charitable works undertaken by Mayfield School and the SHCJ. This year, the CA is donating £1,000 to WEFA (Water and Education for Africa), one of the School's chosen charities, as well as prizes for the Cornelian Association Awards.
In recent years, the CA has also made donations to support refugees in East Sussex through ‘Voices in Exile’; supported literacy for underprivileged children near Killiney, Ireland; supported the Alzheimer’s Society; supported SHCJ missionary education in the Dominican Republic for the Well Baby Clinic, and hurricane relief work; supported SHCJ charitable work in Africa and the ‘Step into the Gap’ programme run in conjunction with CAFOD; assisted ‘Bliss’ for babies born prematurely or sick; made donations
for Masses for deceased old girls and donations for the Head Girl’s Prize; as well as supporting individual girl’s music lessons, school trips, and the construction of the Sixth Form Centre. We are also working with Mayfield’s Lay Chaplain, Ronan Lavery, to ensure that deceased old girls are prayed for by the School and remembered at Mass regularly.
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