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ig hearted pupils, staff and parents have supported more than 30 charities during the academic year raising in excess of £15,932. Year Group charities have included The Motor Neurone Disease Association, War Child and the Cystic Fibrosis Trust (Year 7s). The Rainforest Alliance, MacMillan Cancer Support, WWF and Arthritis Care (Year 8s). The Anouk Foundation, Save the Children and the Wilderness Foundation (Year 9s). Shine, British Lung Foundation, Tree of Hope and Unicef (Year 10). Breast Cancer Care, Myton Hospice and ROSY (Year 11). CLIC Sargent and the Banbury Young Homelessness Project (Year 12 and 13). BYHP also benefited from our Friends’ Schools Joint Choir Festival and the midsummer charity ball, organised by our parent committee PSFA.


Our boarding houses have been supporting Barnardo’s, the official charity of the Boarding Schools’ Association. Meanwhile, whole school charities have included Katharine House Hospice, Amnesty International, Fair Trade, the Royal British Legion, The Peace Pledge Union and Banbury Food Bank. Money has also been raised for Book Aid International, Willing & Abel, Comic Relief, Teenage Cancer Trust and the victims of the Grenfell Tower disaster. Zoë Simms, Sibford’s charity coordinator said: “It’s a great privilege to send this money to these very worthy causes on behalf of all those who have spent their time and effort being involved in Sibford School charities. Well done and thank you everyone!”


Pictured: Sleeping out for BYHP; Crazy Casuals for Breast Cancer Care; Comic Relief cake sale; Going green for Barnardo’s; Amnestea for Amnesty International. 8 / The Sibfordian


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