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Meet the team!
We are Lou, Lou and Jessie.
Lou B is a finance director, Lou M is an event director specialising in sport events and Jessie designs and delivers leadership training. We all have children in Year 1 and Year 3 at St Stephen's and have enjoyed various involvement in fundraising since joining the school community.
Our first focus is raising money for St Stephens school and our second is making sure it’s as fun as possible to do so!
AGM highlights
In the last academic year we raised an incredible £99,000
Top 10 fundraisers:
Bike Ride £18,992 (+£15K donated to other charities)
Bounceathon £11,513
Rugby stall £9,239
Cake sales £5,042
Xmas fair £4,290
Talent show £2,952
Summer BBQ £2,543
Uniform sales £2,335
St Margaret‛s fair contribution £2,000
Quiz £1,900
Last years biggest donations to school:
Music lessons (including MTech) and equipment
Platform subscriptions e.g. Mathletics
Playground redevelopment
Interactive whiteboard replacement
Reading books
Sports equipment
All of this is made possible by the colossal efforts of our event leads and volunteers, we are endlessly thankful to you all.
Special thanks to those who are stepping back from running event this year having set up and run events that have become staples in our FOSS calendar, they are:
Cake sale team - Myriam Balmori, Nora McGlone, Twyla Savs and Laura May
Tea Towel class portraits - Claire Calcott
Children’s Christmas cards - Nora McGlone
Christmas Fair - Caroline Ball and Jo Howard
Bake Off - Fay Hamilton and Marietjie Donaldson
Rugby Stall - Kate George
FOSS chair - Francesca Fortunati
What you can do to help:
With a few people stepping back we are eager fill those positions to make sure we’re going to be able to continue supporting our school so please chat to us in the playground or contact us via your rep or email: foss@ststephensTW1.onmicrosoft.com
We are specifically looking for...
A cake sale team - this group will work together taking it in turns to support the cake sales, ensuring reps have all the information they need to deliver their sale and comply with a food policy and safeguarding rules of the school. Usually this means a few messages to class reps within the week and being able to support set up from about 2:50/3pm on a Friday.
A Summer BBQ team to help us pull together this fun end of year event - this team will design the event, prep the stalls, liaise with the Turk’s Head and work with other members of the FOSS team to ensure we have the right licensing and risk assessments in place.
If you’d like to volunteer at events, join our FOSS events and volunteer whatsapp community, where you can join volunteer groups for any of the events you are interested in helping.
Click this link to join: https://chat.whatsapp.com/COFUzQn7mZcCauV0uCMzJX
Upcoming FOSS Events
New look quiz night! Friday 17th October
Our wonderful quiz team and excellent quizmaster Jamie have stepped down after years of successful quiz nights and, while they will be a tough act to follow, we’re excited to bring a new look quiz night with some exciting rounds that will test more than just your general knowledge! With a fully licensed bar and delicious pizza from Ches’ Trattoria on Crown Road available to pre-order only.
Tickets are on sale now at https://www.pta-events.co.uk/foss/index.cfm please get your best (and most fun) brains together from your class and come to join in the fun.
Christmas Wreath Making - Friday 5th December 7.30pm-10.30pm
We are pleased to be hosting a FOSS Christmas Wreath Making workshop for parent, carers, friends and family (adults only) in our school hall.
We’ll provide everything you need along with helpful guidance and inspiration to make a lovely wreath for your home.
35 early bird tickets at a reduced price of £35 are on sale now at https://www.pta-events.co.uk/foss/index.cfm
Fundraising during the Rugby - come and join us
FOSS run a stall at the Chertsey Road gates on Rugby days selling food and collecting donations from fans as they walk to the game. We will be fundraising tomorrow - Saturday 4th October.
Fundraising on rugby days is a fab way to raise funds for school from those outside our immediate school community which really helps take the pressure off parents (we know there is a lot we are asking of you already). Last year we raised £9,239 for our school.
You can help by coming along with your child/ren and adding to the fun. Below are the list of fixtures, if you would like to get involved or just to hear more about it, please join our whatsapp group using this link https://chat.whatsapp.com/JFCdzuw8ocCFzGN8vIrEDF
Upcoming Autumn Fixtures
1st November - England vs Australia
8th November - England vs Fiji
15th November - England vs New Zealand
23rd November - England vs Argentina
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