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Charities Week 2015

St Clement Danes Sixth Formers have a reputation for academic excellence and student leadership, but for one week each December, they hone their skills in fundraising. From Wednesday 16th to Friday 18th December 2015, they ran a series of events aimed at topping 2014’s record £13000 haul for local, national and international charities. They held an 'Elf Auction' where Sixth Formers could be bought for the day as helpers, staged a Sixth Form Revue and ran the ever popular 'Kidnap a Teacher'. The Sixth Form charities prefects raised awareness of their four chosen charities by running face-painting activities at Chorleywood's Christmas Festival, and were on hand with buckets for most of the week. A lot of fun was had by all, and, in February 2016, cheques for over £2700 were presented to representatives from the Watford Women's Centre, Deafax, Kidscape and the Kenyan Children's Project.

Watford Women's centre      http://www.wwcplus.org.uk/

Deafax                                  http://www.deafax.org/

Kidscape                              https://www.kidscape.org.uk/

Kenyan Children's Project    https://www.thekcp.org/

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