Parents & Friends of Kington St Michael CE School
(Registered Charity No. 1109716)
Our charity is run by an enthusiastic group of parents and friends and supported by teachers from the school. Our aim is to enhance the children’s education by providing activities and equipment to supplement those provided within normal resources. Without the help and dedication of the team these extras would not be available. We hope, therefore, that you will support us in our fundraising efforts to ensure that KSM remains a great place to learn and a school of choice for its children. Many wonderful resources have been funded by money raised by the Friends including school trips, staging, outside tables, sports and playground equipment, class Christmas presents and play area resurfacing.
Members of the Friends have also been involved in securing IT equipment and making funding applications including a bid to the National Lottery which helped us secure our fabulous new Play Pod.
In 2015/16, we fundraised over £8,800 through film nights, cycling events, carol singing, grants and of course our school fete which itself raised over £5,000 – an astonishing figure for such a small school. However, we have a lot of support from our village whether it is raffle prize donations from KSM village shop, Folly Row Café or The Jolly Huntsman, volunteers at school helping the children with reading or supporting our fete by coming along and spending a few hours with us.
With this money, we have helped the school by funding a new music room, the Play Pod for the children to use during playtime, the school Christmas Disco and class Christmas presents and of course donated £5,000 towards the new classroom which has allowed the school to redevelop other areas.
In 2016/17, the school's ambitious plans were to create not only a new library but also
redevelop the outside of the school to include a pond, sensory garden and use the
leftover mound of dirt from the new classroom into a fabulous fun raised snake-like area for the children to run up and down and enjoy. To do this, the school asked us to help them with grants and fundraising.
In 2016/17, we raised a little over £4,500 for the school to develop the new library. There were some amazing donations from parents and local business as well as our usual fundraising efforts. Further details of our fundraising efforts can be seen below.
If you would be interested in joining the Friends of KSM in any capacity however small or large, then please contact the school office and they will get you in touch with the right people.
For up to date information on Friends' events and news please visit the Friends' Facebook page (this is an open page - you don't need to be signed up to Facebook).