Our final carol service on the 1st December raised over £75,000 and was held after two cancellations due to covid. The 7 readers were all Henry’s friends who had read at his Thanksgiving Service in the Harrow School Chapel in January 2003. Again huge thanks to our sponsors and all those who advertised in the 12 carol services. We were delighted with the amount raised and it was a wonderful finale to all our fundraising which started in 2003.
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Huge congratulations to our London Marathon runner Guy Smith Bingham. He has raised enough money for one of our schools to receive a borehole which will transform the lives of over 1000 primary school children.
We had six runners in the London Marathon which had been postponed from April until October due to Covid. They were: Milly Brook Shanahan, Rose Gemmell, James McKinnel, Oliver Renwick, Oliver Robinson and Robert Sloman. Between them they raised over £26,000. Arthur Pickthorn also completed the virtual London marathon on the same day,
We registered 4 runners. Izzy Reeves, Jonathan Money, Oliver Robinson and Rose Gemmel. Due to Covid the event was postponed until October and eventually became a virtual event.
The walk was completed by David Martin Smith who raised £4,592.50. It involved walking 86 miles of Hadrians’ Wall in order to raise funds for his close friend Henry. This event took place just before Covid-19 struck and everywhere was closed down. The funds were spent on the construction of 8 boys’ latrines and a staffroom, plus provision of a staff furniture package at Bukyonza Primary School.
Again St Lukes was packed with over 850 friends and a phenomenal £57,000 was raised. We are very grateful to Katherine Jenkins for her superb performance, plus Naomi and Hannah Moxon who sang their version of Bing Crosby’s “I’ll be Home for Christmas”. Our readers were Nicholas Soames and the television racing presenter Ed Chamberlin.
Many thanks to our two sponsors Brown Advisory and Knight Frank for their support.
Raised just over £7,600. Funds went towards the 5.5 classroom block at Nalango Secondary School to include a specialist science laboratory with running water and gas supplies.
The event was hosted by Top Srivaddhanaprabha and his family at Billingbear Polo Club in Berkshire, and was held in memory of his father, Vichai SrivaddhanaprabhaHv, who tragically died in a helicopter accident at Leicester City football stadium HvSMF was one of the 15 charities to benefit from the enormous funds raised and we received £70,000. Many thanks to all those who supported the day. The Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex were both playing and funds have been spent on projects across many of our 51 supported schools.
We had 6 runners. Two of the runners, Jessica Bishop and Rosie Campbell, raised a staggering £29,000 which has supported Kifuyo Secondary School. With the raised funds the school received 10 desk top computers, printer and ancillaries, we constructed 4 new classrooms for A’Levels, which included solar panels for lighting, 8 girls’ latrines and washroom, provided 30 x 3-seater desks. This was a substantial sum of money. Shafin Moledina, a Ludgrove parent, raised enough money to pay for a 1.5 boy’s dormitory at Bupadhengo Secondary School, and 3 runners supported an East African Playground at Nalinabi Primary School.
We had 5 runners – Henry Butt, Sarah Coghlan, Rufus Hall, Jonathan Quinn and Elizabeth Santos. We are very grateful for the £17,500 they raised and with the funds we constructed teachers’ houses and other projects at Matuumu Bumegere Primary School, plus an East African Playground at Bukyonza Primary School.
HvSMF is very grateful to the runners and their supporters for all the funds raised.
£800 – Funds going towards the new science block at Nalango Secondary school
£3,600 – Funds going towards the new science block at Nalango Secondary school, which includes 5.5 classrooms, completed in 2020.
This was our 10th carol service which was supported by over 800 friends. We would like to thank all the readers : the Duchess of Sussex, Edward Holcroft and Dr James Holland who was Thomas, Henry and Charlie’s house master at Harrow School. Plus our guest singer, Harry Kersley, all of whom helped to raise £57,000 for the children of Uganda.
It raised £1,700 which was spent on teachers’ latrines and washrooms, plus science consumables at Nawanyago College.
Between 18 – 31 August 2018, 20 bike riders raised just over £18,000. Funds were spent at Nalango Secondary School
During July & August 2018, Freddie Denison-Smith, James Hamilton-Ely and Theo Seeley all drove from the UK to Mongolia, 10,000 miles in 6 weeks. They raised £1,700 for Kisadhaki Primary School where Theo had been a volunteer during 2017.
Many children from the nursery school walked through Battersea Park along the river Thames and raised nearly £7,000. We constructed a new 3 classroom Nursery School at Bukyonda.
We had 1 runner, Sara Quayle, and she raised sufficient funds, £2,500, for an East African Playground at Kawule Primary School. Afterwards she travelled to Uganda to see some of our supported schools. Here she is standing outside our Charity Office
We were very grateful to have been one of the two charities to benefit from this amazing day. Our Patron, Prince William, was playing and £40,000 was raised for HvSMF.
We had a record 7 runners and the total raised was a staggering £42,100, of which £19,200 was raised by Marcus Heal and spent on projects at Magogo SS. With the remaining funds raised by Katharine Davenport, a past gap year volunteer at Busesa Primary School, Theo Gibson, Rufus Hall, Tammi Kane, Flora Marking and Jonathan Money we donated 2 x East African Playgrounds, plus projects at Buwoya Primary School, Kisadhaki Primary School and St Mary’s Nawanyago Primary School.