Over 110 Tonbridge boys support weekly Community Action
Tonbridge Community Action has coordinated boys volunteering every week throughout the Michaelmas Term. Across more than twenty community projects, in primary schools, care homes and charities, the School also welcomed many guests on-site for regular sporting activities. In addition, the popular Science for Schools programme has also hosted children each week in the Barton Science Centre for hands-on science activities. Regular collections have been made to local Sustain and Feast foodbanks, with all Novi pupils visiting Tonbridge Baptist Church to better understand the vital work that food banks offer in their local community .October saw the success of the ever-popular Pink Day, when all boys and staff dress in pink, raising over £7,500 and awareness for Breast Cancer Kent, Sarcoma UK and Demelza Hospice. Many across the School also embraced the challenge of Movember, growing moustaches to support more open discussions about men’s health, with this student-led initiative raising over £8,250. Placing Tonbridge seventh on the Schools Challenge UK Movember leaderboard. There was incredible generosity toward the annual Christmas Toy and Gift Appeal, which enabled 261 families, including 563 children, to be helped at this important time.The Community Action Concert held in the penultimate week of term, provided an opportunity to invite friends from the local area for performances by Lower School musicians, as Novi pupils hosted with cups of tea, mince pies and Christmas Crackers.Finally, the retiring collections after the Christmas Carol services were taken for the School’s partner charity Child Action Lanka, who are currently supporting families affected by extreme flooding in the north and east of Sri Lanka.Community Action Manager, Juliet Burnett, said, “As a School, we all gain so much by being able to give our time to learn from, and support, so many people locally and internationally, especially at this festive time.”
