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Warlingham School pupil designs event poster

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:25:23 +0100

At the recent Help for Heroes competition held at Warlingham School, Louise Lander won the prize for the best designed poster for the forthcoming Chelsham and Farleigh Fun Day.

Louise being presented with her award by Kevin Martin, a member of the organising committee.

Fantastic Warlingham School presented yet another massive cheque to Chelsham and Farleigh Help For Heroes committee for £823.95 after their Mufti Day, bringing the total raised by the school for this great cause to £1177.52. The school have fully supported this charity as part of their community and Leadership initiatives. We have loved working with the pupils and staff of Warlingham School, they have made a huge difference to our cause and played a great part in the local community. Thank you to everyone involved.

Golf Day raises over £6,300

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:20:51 +0100

The charity golf day held at Farleigh Golf Club on 9th April was a great success. 126 players, together with sponsors and friends raised the magnificent total of over £6,300. We are already approaching our previous record in 2008 of £14,000 before the fun really begins on 28th and 29th May 2011!

Cadets raise £181.46 for Help for Heroes

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:08:26 +0000

On Friday 18th Feb, 3 cadets from 66(Selsdon) Squadron Air Training Corps, went to school in their cadet uniform and raised £181.46 for the Charity. The boys, all from Addington High School were cadets Cameron O'Neill, Luke Stone and Dane Chinnery. They planned the whole day themselves and with the support of their head of year, collected from the whole school.

Funday organisers visit Warlingham School

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:59:22 +0000

The atmosphere was tense.

It was Monday morning and Chichester and Johnson House were in the main hall waiting for assembly. The Deputy Head Master, Nick Bradwell, was there to take assembly with a difference. There were members of the Chelsham and Farleigh “Fun Day”, The Air Training Corps and a member of the medical staff from Headley Court Hospital. They were going to talk about “Help for Hero’s” and how the school may be able to help. Captain Nkoya Wright is from the Royal Army Medical Corps, she is based at Headley Court Hospital , and is a physiotherapist. She talked to the assembly about the service men and women whom had sustained severe physical injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan, anything from gunshot wounds to being caught in an explosion from enemy fire and from improvised explosive devices (road side bombs).

Headley Court has one aim: to help servicemen and women rejoin their unit and get back to work as quickly as possible. Nkoya also spoke about the equipment that they were using and needed at the hospital, one of them being the Hand Bike.

This is a tremendous help to the blokes, and it gives them a lot of independence and get’s them out and about.

Rob Cleeter from the Air Training Corps also spoke about the “Fun Day” and what would be happening over the week end of the 28/29^th May, he also told Mallory and Sharman house that Chichester and Johnson said they would raise the most money. I think he was trying to boost the competitive spirit a bit. More details of the Air Cadets can be found at www.raf.mod.uk/aircadets/ and at www.surreywing.org/ .

Pam Whittingham, and myself Peter Nightingale were there to give moral support and also to talk to the assembly on the following day. The response from the students was great.

The Deputy Head Master then spoke to the assemblies and proposed that they may like to design a poster for the Fun Day and weekend, there would be a competition, the winning entrant (‘s) would have their poster professionally printed and displayed around the local area for all to know what was happening over this week and where the funds and our support were going. He also reiterated how the students could use the “Leadership Initiative” to organise and run an event that may raise funds for this cause and the “Lily Foundation”.

A very big thank you to the school, it was a real privilege to be allowed to attend the school assemblies and to meet the students, whose behaviour was impeccable. We feel very lucky that our local secondary school want to work with us, for these extremely worthwhile causes. The students that approached us, including Faith Newcombe, Hannah Robinson and Sophie Lewis, have been enthusiastic, friendly and seem very committed, already showing great Leadership skills.

We are very lucky and happy to be in partnership with Warlingham School, raising money for these wonderful causes, and that we look forward to working with the students in the future.

To visit Warlingham School website, please click here.

Golf Day announced

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:45:37 +0000

As part of the build up to the Chelsham and Farleigh Funday, 2011, a Charity Golf Day has been announced.

It will take place on 9th April 2011 at the Farleigh Court Golf Club.

Click here for more details.

At the time of updating this page on Sunday 27th February, we are pleased to say that we already have over 90 players. If you would still like to participate, you will need to be quick!!!