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Parent Council AGM 6.30pm on Tues 16th September
Fundraising successes
Our NEW fundraising goal for 2024-25 was raised by the children at Black Mount and is OUTDOOR PLAY EQUIPMENT (this rated as one of the top two choices in the participatory budget voting undertaken by children and families in 2024).
Our NEW fundraising goal for 2024-25 was raised by the children at Black Mount and is OUTDOOR PLAY EQUIPMENT (this rated as one of the top two choices in the participatory budget voting undertaken by children and families in 2024).
As a small school facing budget cuts from education at South Lanarkshire council, and with limited external funding available we are working to provide the best educational equipment and opportunities for our children. We arrange both free and pay for events to cater to as many families as possible and we would like to be clear that there is no requirement or pressure to participate financially in our fundraising - everyone is welcome to bring their own food to our events etc. If you have ideas for events (free or fundraising), or have ideas how we can be more inclusive in what we do please let us know.
Thank you to BORDER MIX who donated the concrete for our outdoor classroom base!
*thanks to Helen for arranging this and convincing them (and all the bakers who contributed last minute as the 'payment' for this concrete)!
Thank you to Eddie from EJN Developments who donated his time, equipment, waterproof membrane and expertise to ensure our base was ready for the concrete!
*thanks to Sarah M for arranging this and keeping us right so the outdoor classroom is on a solid footing
Thank you to Craig, Katie, George and Amy who donated their time, equipment, and SIX TONNES OF HARDCORE and got our base on a solid footing
Thank you to WARD PLANT who are donating £250 towards the school's cross country kit - a set which we hope will last the kids for a decade to come (making those rainy cross country days a LOT more enjoyable)
Thank you to Brian and BHC who donated Sand for our outdoor classroom base and compost for our polytunnel - that both the nursery and school are already making use of!
Our p7s organised our annual FAMILY FILM NIGHT in February 2025.
They raised over £400 towards the parent council funds.
Thank you to all the amazing p7s for their ideas, energy, organisation and supporting on the night!
FUNDRAISING TEA TOWEL
We raised £380 towards the parent council funds.
Thanks to the kids for their incredible drawings, thanks to Ellen for letting us use her studio for printing/drying and for giving up her time to help us screenprint all these amazing tea towels, and Bella for your help too.
We hope you love yours!
We were successsful in an again in application to the Loaningdale School Company again to support plans for theatre trip to see The Baddies at the Kings Theatre in Glasgow.
We received £1500 for the trip.
Well done to Helen for thinking of this and doing all the legwork!
We arranged a joint walk with the Black Mount Social Group on 1st September 2024 up White Hill. The walk raised donations for the Social Group who fund the Black Mount Sports Day at Newbigging and the Senior Citizens Dinner in Elsrickle.
The parent council Dunsyre Duck Race on May 2024.
We raised over £1346 towards the parent council funds.
A 119% increase on last year's Duck Race. Thanks to the brilliant organisers and all who took part and made it such a success!
FAMILY FILM NIGHT - Friday 16th February 2024
We showed Super Mario, and welcomed over 100 people from the school and our local community to the Biggar Corn Exchange.
We raised over £500 towards the parent council funds.
Huge thank you to Helen, James, Claire, Nadia, Gregor, Trina and all the other helpers and attendees.
THANK YOU!
We were successsful in an application to the Loaningdale School Company to support plans for theatre trip for all the school,
We received £800 for the trip(s).
Well done to Helen for a cracking application!
Over 40 people joined us for our CAR TREASURE HUNT on 30th September 2023
It was a fun packed day with an incredible car treasure hunt around Black Mount, Quothquan and Biggar followed by pizza, drinks and baking in the School's hall and community garden.
We raised over £178 towards the developing the community garden.
Huge thanks to Angela and Katie for organising, Andrew and Tricky for pizza-making and all the many parent helpers who chipped in.
Our joint walk with The Black Mount Social Group on 26th August 2023 was open to donations towards the Social Group's annual Fireworks in Dolphinton and Senior Citizen's Christmas Dinner and managed to raise more than £265 towards these activities.
The parent council Dunsyre Duck Race on May 2023 raised over £614 towards parent council activities. Thanks to the organisers and all who took part.
We are delighted that Black Mount Community Council have awarded us £500 towards tools and equipment for our outdoor space. We will update once we have ordered everything and look forward to planning in some community gardening at the school!
Biggar Farmers Club have kindly donated £1000 towards our rebuild of the school pagoda/gazebo that burned down shortly before the school moved to the new site in 2019.
We were successsful in an application to the Building and Celebrating Communities Fund to support our plans for the outdoor space and received £2500 towards a number of improvements to the outdoor space including sports equipment and a polytunnel.
Fundraising wishlist
We are keen to involve the children as much as possible and the school will be working with them soon to identify a new goal for our fundraising activities in 2023-24. We are also building a wishlist of school and parent council wants/needs - see here -->
If you have anything from this list just lying around get in touch with us: blackmountparentcouncil@gmail.com. Thank you!
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