Once again this year, the Harrodian community has turned the run up to Christmas into a giving season with a series of generous charity initatives
Leading the way were the Friends of Harrodian. Their Christmas Fair raised its biggest total ever thanks in part to the extraordinary generosity of one anonymous parent who offered to double the £8,441.50 originally raised. The resulting total of £16,883.00 is the biggest sum raised ever and will be split betwee three charities: Rackets Cubed, Santa's Shoebox and DKMS.
The Christmas Fair was also the setting for crepe and sweet stalls manned by pupils raising funds for their Summer 2026 Camps International trip to Borneo, an expedition supporting Orangutan Conservation and Protection and local community projects in the region.
In a separate initative at the Fair, four 12s girls ran a stall which involved selling books with wrapping that hid the titles, encouraging visitors to explore new reading choices. They raised nearly £350 for the Oxfam Women's Rights charity.
Friends of Harrodian were also behind a big collection of winter coats of all sizes sponsored by Chestertons back in November resulting in the donation of 250 coats of all sizes and coats were also central to a 14s and 15s initiative co-ordinated by Harrodian’s Senior School Office which concluded this week . Pupils gathered coats on behalf of Growbaby Sutton a charity providing ‘pre-loved good quality clothes and equipment for children in need aged 0-5 years. A minibus full of pupils (and coats) delivered the resulting collection to Growbaby on Thursday 12th December.
Other Christmas fundraisers coming to a conclusion in the final weeks of term and highlighted in the pictures included a cake sale for Macmillan at the Castlenau Community Centre (top), a collection of nearly £400 at the PP Christmas Show for the Mayhew Trust who visited the Pre Prep for an assembly earlier in the term a generous donation to the Roehampton Box affordable supermarket which was organised and staffed by our dynamic Sixth Formers who delivered the results of their efforts to Roehampton on Thursday and our usual Christmas Jumper Day collection for Save the Children.