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Improving life at home and abroad
6:07am Sunday 20th July 2008
PUPILS have been doing their bit to help disadvantaged people at home and abroad.
Year nine students at Sibford School, in Sibford Gower, near Banbury, raised £300 for Banbury Young Homeless Project (BYHP) by sleeping rough for a night.
Year eight pupils joined the effort, raising enough cash to buy a community tap for villagers in Nigeria.
BYHP has been the school's adopted charity for the past year, and the sleep out was the final event.
Form tutor Mike Spring said the school had raised £3,000 for the charity.
He said: "It seemed a fitting way to end the term and to raise further funds and awareness for this utterly worthwhile organisation."
The year eight pupils held a host of fundraising events including a sponsored fancy dress cross country run, fashion show and cake sale to pay for the tap.
Plants grown by the school horticultural department raised £1,000, which has been used to buy a water harvest system for families in Uganda.
Headteacher Michael Goodwin: "It is really important that, as a school community, we take time to help those less fortunate then ourselves. The support shown by our pupils has been fantastic."
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