Supporter Update Issue 6: November 2022
Latest news from the Development Office
The Beckwith A fantastic way to kick start the Centenary year!
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A big thank you to everyone who supported our fantastic, inaugural Centenary event, The Beckwith, on the stunning Saturday morning back in September. A thousand people took part, raising over £8,500 for the Lord Wandsworth Foundation. Thank you so much to all who participated and helped to make it an incredible, joy-filled day. For those that couldn’t make it, The Beckwith, named after pupil number ‘1’ (who arrived at Long Sutton in November 1922), is a beautiful 5km route which winds its way through our lush, green 1200-acre campus. The route is marked with new, bespoke way-markers handmade by our brilliant Head of Design, Claire Liggins, and takes you from the Acorn Gates, up to Sutton, through the fields up to the Chichory, through to Sheephouse Copse, then Quercus and home through Heaven and Hell. The event had been designed to bring all corners of our community together and certainly delivered on this. Sternians, staff, pupils, governors, and friends of the College came along and either walked or ran the 5km or 10km route. We were also delighted to see that our canine friends made up a significant portion of the crowd too!
LWC Giving Day A first for LWC!
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As part of our Centenary celebrations, we are delighted to announce that we will be hosting our first ever LWC Giving Day in March 2023! If you have not taken part in one before, a Giving Day is an online fundraising event aimed at rallying communities together to maximize awareness, engagement, and donations towards a charity during a short, targeted time period. All Giving Days are unique and ours is designed to be a 36-hour, multi-channel fundraising event that will encourage the entire LWC community to come together and support an appeal of their choice and celebrate 100 years of LWC. We expect it to be a lot of fun with all sorts of activities and surprises planned. We do hope you will be able to get involved! Please note that we will be writing to the entire LWC community to give everyone a chance to ‘opt-out’ of this fundraiser.