2009-2010 Charities
The Phoenix School Parent Guild has a long tradition of raising money for child-related charities that it selects on an annual basis. All of the charities that we select have small overheads, making sure that the money we raise is put to maximum effect. Furthermore, the money we raise goes to the charities, not to our school. This year, we are proud to confirm that we are supporting the following very worthy causes.
Swiss Cottage School
Swiss Cottage is a Specialist School for Special Educational Needs. It opened in 1995 and is now recognised as one of the most successful schools in the country. 3 Ofsted inspections have seen the school placed in the ‘outstanding’ list each time. It has doubled in size since opening and is very heavily oversubscribed. The school has 150 students, aged 2-16 years, with a range of learning difficulties and associated needs including communication, physical & learning; other significant additional associated needs, including emotional/behavioral and autistic spectrum disorders; and medical, including Mental Health. It has a ratio of 150 students to 100 teachers. The Phoenix aims to foster a long-term relationship between the two schools, enriching the lives of both sets of pupils through joint social activities as well as providing financial support through our fundraising efforts. To learn more about Swiss Cottage School, please click to visit their website.
Children With Leukemia (CWL)
CWL is the UK's leading charity dedicated exclusively to fighting Britain's biggest childhood cancer. Although leukemia can now be successfully treated in the majority of children, it still has devastating effects, treatment is grueling and the future very uncertain for those it strikes. CWL focuses on research, welfare and raising awareness. It raises money to fund research into the treatment, causes and prevention of childhood leukemia, and funds welfare projects for children and their families to help minimize the stress of treatment. Additionally, it works to raise awareness issues affecting leukemic children, and is currently lobbying the Government to ban children's schools and new homes from being built near electricity pylons.
Nirvana School
The Phoenix School has set up a relationship with Nirvana School in Pondicherry, South India. The school provides a free private education to 350 children from the age of 3 to 13, enabling the poorest of local children to get a high quality education that can help them improve the quality of their and their family’s future. It also offers evening tutoring, financial sponsorship and donations of clothes and stationery to other children who attend local state schools. It was set up in 1995 by a lady called Mrs Samani, who works on an entirely voluntary basis, and who is currently fundraising to expand the school so that it can help more children. The Phoenix has agreed to sponsor Nirvana School for the next 5 years with money raised through our fundraising events and teacher training and lesson planning through our teachers visiting the school. The money raised by our fundraising efforts in 2008 will be used to build a new school building, provide a range of educational materials and some sunshades in the outside spaces to provide respite for the children from the heat, and to sponsor five children to get a complete education.
We are very grateful for any help and support you may be able to offer us with our fundraising activities in the form of gift/voucher/product donations and really appreciate your kindness. If you have any queries please do call the current Co-Chairs of the Parent Guild;
Mandy Tafler 07989 971207
Carolyn Maze 07980 894585
Thank you for your kind help.