Our gift to the world

Highcliffe School’s donations to charity have reached an incredible £50,000 to date, with 20 local, national and international charities being the beneficiaries of these vital funds.

The money has been raised through a variety of fund raising activities, ranging from individual student initiatives, proactive group enterprises through to our largest sponsored event, The Big Walk - a terrific team-building day involving nearly 1000 students and staff walking 10km together in the New Forest. It is not only money that we donate – every year our students provide Christmas shoeboxes of presents for younger children abroad (with 601 boxes donated this year) and our Year 9 recently donated an enormous bundle of food for the Christchurch Food Bank. 

Headteacher, Patrick Earnshaw said

“Here at Highcliffe School, we understand the importance of focusing on personal and emotional development and of inspiring our young people to make ethical and moral choices. We want them to have a greater understanding of the valuable difference we can make to people’s lives and we take pride in giving our young people fund-raising opportunities, and of taking ownership of their choices to become positive role models in our community. We value the power of education to change lives.”

To celebrate our staff and students’ achievements a display, showing the total donations to each charity and examples of how the money has been used to benefit others, is now in school.

Our staff and students feel a huge sense of pride in our charitable accomplishments and feel inspired for future endeavours. Furthermore, we are enormously appreciative for the unstinting commitment and generosity of our students’ parents, carers and family members who have supported Highcliffe School’s fund-raising activities. We would like to publicly extend our sincerest ‘thank you’ to them all.

Comments from the charities we support:

“It’s wonderful that your students have fundraised so much for the families of Julia’s House, over £10,000 will have made a huge difference to the families of the children we support”.
Julia’s House

“Incredible efforts of the school and it’s pupils.
Thank you to all those who helped raise such a huge sum”.
Cancer research UK

“This wonderful support is a real achievement - a huge thank you to everyone at Highcliffe School for such a fantastic effort.”
Great Ormond Street Hospital

“Your support for Unicef is invaluable and really does change the lives of children in danger, so I’d like to thank the whole school for your support”
UNICEF

“We’d like to say a massive ‘Thank You’ to you all at Highcliffe School for raising £5,564.00 it’s an amazing amount of money and really does make such a huge difference to our injured soldier’s and their families”.
Help for Heroes

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