Year 11 students deliver 250 food tins to local homeless charity
October 2010
PRESS RELEASE
On Friday 8th October 2010, Year 11 students from The Grey Coat Hospital delivered 250 tins of food to local Westminster homeless charity, ‘The Passage’. Linked to Westminster Cathedral the charity helps the homeless on Westminster’s streets: it is estimated that 150 people sleep rough on Westminster’s streets every night.
Whilst the goal of collecting enough tins to equal the height of Westminster Abbey at 32 metres - approximately 320 tins - was not reached, an impressive 250 tins were collected, and these will go towards making meals for the homeless at The Passage.
The week kicked off the first of many charity weeks which run throughout Grey Coat’s academic calendar. Form groups at the school have ‘Charity Representatives’, and there is a range of focus themes in place according to student year groups - children’s charities, health-related charities, environmental charities, charities for women, local charities (like The Passage) and global and human rights charities.
‘Jeans for genes day’ also took place on Friday 8th October and students proudly delivered the tins to The Passage whilst wearing their jeans.
Image above shows Andrew Hollingsworth from The Passage
receiving tins from Year 11 Charity Representaitves.
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