Record-Breaking Fundraising

The LWC community has raised a record-breaking £170,000 for the College’s transformative Foundation.

 

Giving Day: A 36-hour fundraising marathon, was held on Tuesday 25^th and Wednesday 26^th March and involved students, staff, parents and Sternians coming together for a series of fun activities.

 

Highlights included an ‘Around the World Challenge’, which tasked the community with clocking up as many miles as possible, to make its way around the globe (by walking, running, cycling, swimming or through any other means). Two students notched up an impressive 20km each in the pool.

 

The first of two Headmaster’s Challenges saw the Julyans Dining Hall treated to an Adam Williams version of Elton John’s Candle in the Wind.

 

On Tuesday evening, each of the eight Boarding Houses took on their own fundraising events. Junior House, home to our youngest students, indulged in some technicolour madness with a teatime Colour Run. School House were led in Superhero Aerobics and Summerfield donned the superhero costumes for a football match. Meanwhile, Haygate House enjoyed a dance competition, Gosden held a games night and Sutton House came together for dodgeball.

 

The second and final Headmaster’s Challenge saw Mr Williams join several other members of LWC’s Senior Leadership Team for a training session alongside the College’s Marathon Canoe Team. The canoeists are gearing up for the world’s longest non-stop canoe race in April; the Devizes to Westminster. Whilst LWC’s Headmaster took to canoeing in the wider boats like a proverbial duck to water, he soon experienced full immersion in the Basingstoke Canal at Odiham (four times) as he discovered the challenges of staying afloat in a narrower vessel.

   

LWC’s Upper Sixth Form BTEC Enterprise & Entrepreneurship students sold products created as part of their social enterprise projects. The Performing Arts Department challenged the College to an ‘LWC’s Got Talent’ competition and the fundraiser was rounded off by interhouse hockey and netball matches. A grand total of £94,766 was raised; smashing the total reached by the last Giving Day in 2023.

 

A further £75,317 has also been added to this figure, thanks to LWC’s Iceland Trek, which took place in February.

 

25 LWC parents, Sternians and staff took part in a three-day hike across the land of fire and ice, in aid of the Lord Wandsworth College Foundation. Their commitment to fundraising, both before and after the trek, ensured another record-breaking sum was reached.

 

LWC Director of Philanthropy and Alumni Relations, Samantha Corfield added, “The Foundation currently helps 50 children who have lost the support of one or both parents, by enabling them to benefit from an LWC education. Over the course of the coming years, we hope to grow that number to 70. We are so grateful to the whole College community for coming together and supporting the Foundation. It not only widens worlds, but transforms lives.”