Swanmore pupils raise £400 for local hospital (From Hampshire Chronicle)
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Swanmore pupils raise £400 for local hospital
8:20am Tuesday 14th February 2012 in News
George Cook (right) presents the cheque to Suzie Simmonds with Year 7 Director Debbie Newcombe (left)
PUPILS at Swanmore College have raised £400 for Southampton General Hospital.
Year 7 students have spent the academic year so far doing various activities like selling cakes and running a school postal service to earn the cash.
They donated the money to the hospitals cardiac unit because Year 7 pupil George Cook, 11, has been having regular treatment and operations at the unit for a rare heart condition, hypolastic left heart syndrome.
Year 7 teacher Tanya Tye-Reeve said: “Across the school there is an ethos to do fundraising activites and traditionally our Year 7 classes have always done that.
“We are going to be doing further work for the remainder of the academic year so we can contribute more and we will be making a donation to the Little Hearts Matter charity too.”
George presented the cheque to Suzie Simmonds, representing the hospital’s charitable trust, at a recent assembly.
