Charity of the Term

The Charity of the Term for Lent 2013, chosen by the pupils, is Rwanda Aid. Collections taken at Cathedral services and proceeds from other events will support these causes.

Recent Charities of the Term include:  Help for Heroes, NSARDA Kent Search Dogs, Forward, Marie Curie Cancer, Care Kent Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre; Send a Cow; World Land Trust; Canine Partners; Five Talents; Canterbury District Citizens Advice Bureau; Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour Trust, The Encephalitis Society, Rufiji Leprosy Trust, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Magic Bus, Skin Tumour Fund, Waterford Kamhlaba UWCSA, Young Minds, Laura Crane Trust, Footprints, International Rescue Committee, Prostate Cancer Charity, Future Hope India, Hope Romania, the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, and the Sereolipi Education Trust, Kenya.

Michael Morpurgo's 2012 King's Week talk was in aid of Farms for City Children. Recent charity events have included: Valentine Carnations in aid of  Depression Alliance and Tildy's Trust; a concert in aid of Fairbridge and The Prince's Trust at St Paul's, Knightsbridge; a Fashion Show which raised over £5,500 in aid of Breakthrough Breast Cancer; a concert at St John's Smith Square in aid of London Music Masters; the Jervis charity dinner and concert in aid of Magic Bus; the St Augustine's fête in aid of Canterbury Young Carers; a Sixth Form Ball in aid of Right to Dream; the Walpole Valentine Carnations in aid of Whizz Kidz and the Meningitis Research Foundation; the School House Sixth Form Charity Ball in aid of Vicky's Water Project, the King's Week Gala Symphony Concert appropriately supporting Future Talent; a rock concert, in aid of the TreeHouse Trust, which aims to build an educational centre of excellence for children with autism.