Businesses Can Make A Difference!

Sixth Formers at Farringtons presented a cheque for £1241.71 to Chris Rolls of the Methodist Relief and Development Fund last week.

The money was raised through the highly successful Business Enterprise Scheme run at the School. All profits have gone to support two MRDF projects, a Youth Development Centre in Cameroon and an income generation programme for women in India.

Students spent their Lower Sixth year running businesses, making and selling products, advertising and keeping accounts.

Headmistress, Mrs James and the Chaplain, Reverend Samuel, praised the girls’ efforts and said everyone had been very motivated by this enterprising approach as they could clearly see that their hard work would make a difference to someone less fortunate than themselves.

The Lower Sixth are also supporting MRDF as their chosen charity this year. They start their fund raising with a cake sale on Friday 12th October at break. All the cakes will be home made and there will be lots to choose from. Further cake sales will be held at regular intervals throughout the year. Watch this space for details of these and other events.

Mrs A Harris, Business Enterprise Co-ordinator