Front row: left to right : Adam Keenan, Georgina Chatburn-Jones, Matt Ringland, Chris Parkinson
Middle row left to right: Margeret Foxley, Paul Wright, Matt Walsh, Andy Buckingham, Matt Bury, Niall Fay, Alex Wallbank, George Huck, Domnic Laver, Oliver Roberts
Back row left to right: Charlotte Wright, Emeley Ashworth-McGuinn, Julia Shekleton, Euan MacKeating, Adam Van Cleef , Sam Westwood, Laurence Hall, Jasmine Bell
UGANDA CLASS OF 2012 VISIT
July 2012
TRIP BACKGROUND
The fantastic success of the 2010 visit combined with the unfinished business left to do at the Good Samaritan primary school, we were always going to return with a new group of QEGS 6th form students. The aim this time was to raise more funds and thus pay new classrooms and a dormitory for the children to sleep in. The class of 2012, really stepped up with enthusiasm and imagination. We set each student a personal target figure to raise and most went well beyond this.
FUNDRAISING
This group raised nearly £12,000. This was due to the individual efforts by the group. Memorably, Adam Van Cleef was able to raise £3000 through sponsorship. He walked the Cumbrian Way 76 miles in 3 days with Sam Westwood. Jasmine Bell and Emeley Ashworth-McGuinn raised well over £600 by making jewellery out of beads and sold it wherever they could. Georgina Chatburn-Jones hosted spray sun tan parties. This was the kind of inventive ideas this group pursued. Dr Butler/Mr Morgan and Miss MacCreadie teamed up with Adam Keenan, Matt Walsh, Matt Ringland, Matt Bury, Chris Parkinson and George Oxley to show real determination to complete a relay run of 96 miles in a weekend from QEGS Penrith in Cumbria to finished exhausted at school.
Mrs Margeret Foxley took responsibility for setting up a wonderful school event by teaming up with the shop New Look in Blackburn to stage a fun Fashion Show held in the school hall. Mr Paul Oliver, utilised the musical talents of Sam Westwood, Adam Van Cleef and Euan MacKeating to put on Blues session in Singleton House. There was also a bigger music concert which invited groups from neighbouring schools and the local community. All of these were terrific ways
ACHIEVEMENTS
The Class of 2012 were a lively bunch and they fully embraced being in the school and they interacted with the children at the primary school and with the students of Mackay Secondary School. The raised a lot of money that allowed for new classrooms to be added to the Assembly Hall and to build a place for the children to sleep. A well was also sunk at the school around this time. This was a needed boost to keeping everyone safe and healthy in the Good Samaritan community.
Andy Buckingham (Trip Leader 2012).
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