Impact Report 2022-2023

15 IMPACT REPORT

School Charity

Our School Charity is chosen in January and fundraising runs throughout the calendar year to develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills across multiple year groups.

School Charity 2022 Asylum Welcome

School Charity 2023 Oxfordshire Youth

In 2022 we raised over £66,000 for charities. Our School Charity of the Year was Asylum Welcome and we raised over £30,000 partly from the School Steeplechase being a large fundraising event for the first time. We have worked closely with Asylum Welcome for the past three years supporting the County Council’s work with Afghan refugees and particularly this past year with our Ukrainian friends. Our support was not just financial but also in the form of social activities and English lessons for many rehomed teenagers. St Edward’s now supports seven Ukrainian pupils with 100% of their school fees. Other charitable initiatives during 2022: Tilly’s raised over £8,500 for the Gatehouse (a local homeless charity). Simon Roche (HM of Segar’s) ran the Marathon des Sables also in support of the Gatehouse and raised over £11,000 . Kendall, focused on Save the Children Ukraine, raising over £6,300 .

2023 saw the introduction of Oxfordshire Youth as our School Charity. We worked together not only to fundraise for the charity but also to support them in other more practical ways. We have collaborated to champion the importance of children and young people’s mental health across our schools and communities and in July we hosted the Youth in Mind conference. Youth in Mind is the key annual mental health conference for everyone working with children and young people across Oxfordshire. It is organised by Oxfordshire Youth in collaboration with Oxfordshire Mind. The keynote speakers included Dr Sarah Hughes, CEO of Mind, and Paul James, Chief Executive of the River Learning Trust, which runs 28 state schools in Oxfordshire. There was also a variety of practical sessions led by local organisations. In December we were also proud that members of the School Choir sang at Blenheim Palace for Oxfordshire Youth’s 75th Anniversary Celebration. We were the host venue for several training courses for Oxfordshire Youth and in June we welcomed young people and staff to Teddies for jewellery making in the design workshop followed by pizza.