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This is the third page in which we say an
official 'Thank you' to some of our younger members who have been
raising funds for Pageant during the past few months.
Christ's Hospital
Christ's Hospital, a boarding school near
Horsham, West Sussex, is a Charitable Foundation established by King
Edward VI by a Royal Charter dated 1553. (see
their website) The school, known
familiarly as CH, is dedicated to providing a stable background and
boarding education of high standard to boys and girls, having regard
especially to children of those families in social, financial or
other particular need. Each term CH has a Chapel collection in aid
of selected charities and during the Lent term of 2005 this
collection was donated to Pageant.
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Ian made a presentation to both junior and senior chapel meetings at
the beginning of the Lent term, to inform the CH pupils of the work
that Pageant undertakes and to show them the amazingly poor state of
most of the school buildings in The Gambia. This photograph shows a cheque for £750 being presented to Ian Howard
by Emma Topolski, one of the Grecians (CH terminology for Upper 6th
or Year 13). In addition to this cheque, a further £100 was donated
to Pageant in relation to the Chapel collection and more funds were
raised at a Rugby Sevens Tournament (£131) and by sales of the
in-school magazine Politico (£30.86). We have not yet decided on
which project we will spend this money, but will update this page as
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In addition to this,
the boys of two of the CH houses, Peele A and Peele B, are
sponsoring a student in The Gambia. They have been supporting Alieu
since 2004, when he was at Primary School, and raise the money for
his schooling by organising an Arts Festival in the School Theatre
each summer term and getting sponsorship for participation in the
annual school steeplechase.
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As well as sponsorship for Alieu himself,
money raised by the students has been used for Alieu’s new
school, Ndow UBS in Bakau. The most popular suggestions by the
CH pupils themselves were football kit and science equipment, so
two complete sets of football kit complete with kitbags and
several footballs were taken out to the school in October 2006.
Science kit was bought in conjunction with the Collyer’s Beacon
Science initiative - Ndow UBS was one of the schools chosen to
benefit from the Practical Science seminars and received an
extra quota of Science kit on the strength of the CH
contribution.
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We would like to take this opportunity of thanking the entire CH
community for their generous support of Pageant - they are certainly
increasing the range of their care for 'children of families in
social, financial or other particular need'.
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