Havering Adult College SEND provision take on fundraising activities for Great Ormond Street Hospital.

During Learning Disabilities Week (19-25th June), learners from Havering Adult College’s Education for Independence (E4I) SEND Provision engaged in a series of fundraising activities for Great Ormond Street Hospital, successfully raising £786.  These activities included a sponsored walk, cake bake sale, fitness circuit and staff car wash, all of which were organised and facilitated by the Education for Independence learners themselves.  

“We are extremely proud of our learners at E4I raising funding for such an important cause,” said Natalie McAneny, Havering Adult College E4I and Inclusion Manager. “Through their own efforts they were able to secure vital and much needed funding for Great Ormond Street Hospital, and the fact that they did so through activities that they themselves organised and participated in is all the more reason to be delighted with their achievements.  As a reflection of our appreciation, the College have brought the total raised to £1,000 through a supplementary donation” 

“We are sincerely grateful for the incredible amount raised by Education 4 Independence,” said Spokesperson Claire Gillman, a representative of Great Ormond Street Hospital. “The funds raised, along with the generous top-up from Havering Adult College, is being put towards our new CCC building, which is the new cancer centre building at GOSH. The unit means all treatment the children receive will be within one area in the hospital with many children having to have extended stays in hospital for high dose chemo and bone marrow transplant. Donations made to GOSH mean SO much to the thousands of children and families who come through the hospital doors each year. The hospital depends heavily on charity donations such as this, so the students who have raised this money really have made an outstanding contribution and on behalf of the hospital and the children and families we support we are eternally grateful”.

The success of this event is testament to the importance of lifelong learning, with funding for such an important cause being one of the many highly positive outcomes produced by engagement with adult education.

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