Glossopdale Charities team

Charity Action Team (formerly the Millennium Committee).

This committee of staff and students has achieved a lot since it was convened in 1999. It aims to carry out the Millennium Resolution and make an impact in the college, the community and the world.

It does this by annually;

• Organising the collection of parcels for Operation Christmas Child
• Organising an Afternoon Tea for the Elderly in our community.

Each year, it organises fund raising events to raise money for other projects, submitted by students and staff. These include:

• Selling space in a Valentines Day Student Bulletin
• Making and selling gifts for Mother’s Day
• Holding a Sponsored Run each summer, the same length in metres as the year.

We marked the Millennium by completing the following projects;-

• Encouraged the signing of the Jubilee 200 petition to drop the debt owed by the Developing World to the Developed World.
• Raised £250 to buy a pump for a well in Burkina Faso in Africa
• Buried a capsule with the signatures of every student in the college at that time.
• Purchased two yew trees for the college, grafted from 2000 year old stock
• Holding our first Afternoon Tea for the Elderly.
• Organising a working party to clean up part of Glossop.

Since then we have completed the following projects:

2000- 2001

• Sent Shoeboxes to Operation Christmas Child
• Organised an Afternoon Tea for the Elderly .
• Bought benches for Shirehill Hospital and a Residential Home for the Elderly in Hadfield.

2001 – 2002 .

• Organised sending Shoeboxes to Operation Christmas Child.
• Raised £200 to sponsor a child at the Janapanda Seva Trust in India
• Donated £500 to the Gateway Club in Glossop
• Raised money for Sports Relief.
• Organised an Afternoon Tea for the Elderly.

2002 - 2003

• Donated £200 to Glossop Flood Relief
• Organised the sending of 222 shoeboxes to Operation Christmas Child
• Raised enough money to send an Aquabox to a Developing country.
• Organised an Afternoon Tea for the Elderly.

2003 – 2004

• Organised the sending of 170 shoeboxes to Operation Christmas Child
• Sponsored 100 acres of Rainforest in
• Sponsored a dolphin in Scotland
• Donated £300 to the Gateway Club
• Organised an Afternoon Tea for the Elderly.

2004 - 2005

This year, we have already sent of 280 parcels to Operation Christmas Child.

We have led the raising of £3000 for the Tsunami Appeal.

We want to:

• Continue to sponsor a dolphin in Scotland
• Raise £150 to keep the Mustard Tree Project for the homeless in Manchester open for a day.
• To buy new tubs for the Memorial Garden
• Send as many goats to developing countries as we can.
• Hold another Afternoon Tea for the Elderly CAN YOU HELP US?