On Friday 8th October, the whole School descended on Regent’s Park for the return of the famous, annual Sponsored Walk.
Donned in fancy dress, each year group arrived at the park for their staggered start time. The Thirds (Year 7) arrived first dressed in their best Disney attire to start the afternoon of walking! Amazingly dressed dogs were collected from enthusiastic parents as the walking got underway. As each year group came through to start, all manner of fancy dress themes were visible, from Pirates to Cowgirls, Fairies to children’s book characters!
Brightly dressed FHS students stood out all around the park as the each year group completed one lap, then two! Some of our keenest Thirds completed four full laps!
Our Head Girls’ Team were on hand to help with the Help Fund Committee having the particularly difficult job of judging the cutest dog competition.
All proceeds from this year’s Sponsored Walk are to be donated to SANE – a UK mental health charity working to improve quality of life for people affected by mental illness.
SANE is a UK-wide charity working to improve quality of life for people affected by mental illness. SANE has three main objectives linked to our aims and outcomes:
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To raise awareness and combat stigma about mental illness, educating and fighting to improve mental health services.
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To provide care and emotional support for people with mental health problems, their families and carers as well as information for other organisations and the public.
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To promote and host research into the causes and more effective treatments of mental illness such as schizophrenia and depression and the psychological and social impact of mental illness.
Congratulations to our girls for their superb fund-raising efforts so far, resulting in a fantastic £5,783.75 raised to date for SANE.
Our sponsorship page is still live and any additional donations are very welcome and extremely appreciated.
