Harvest Festival at Pipers

On Wednesday 17 October, we held our annual Harvest Festival Assembly which was lead by Revd Mary Gurr the School Chaplain.

Each of the four Houses identified a charity that they wanted to support and every girl was asked to make a contribution to the donations

Hampden House supported the Wycombe Night Shelter, an organisation that provides shelter for the homeless and girls donated clothing including jeans, joggers and combats, as well as trainers, fleeces and jackets and grocery items such as tea, coffee, sugar and squash.

Penn House decided to support the homeless community in Oxford. Girls brought in items that someone would require when moving into their own room or house after being homeless such as tea, coffee, sugar, washing up liquid, tins of beans, packets of biscuits and cleaning equipment.

The girls in Milton House chose the One Can Trust, a charity which provides free food parcels to those who are deemed to be ‘in crisis’ in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and the surrounding areas. One Can Trust welcomes a variety of gifts, dried goods such as tins and packets and toiletries.

Mandeville House followed their long-established practice of taking harvest baskets full of tins and packets of food to elderly people in the local community.

Headmistress, Mrs Ness-Gifford said, “Harvest Festival provides an opportunity for the girls to contribute to the wider community in addition to our longer term charity commitments. This year each House has chosen to support a charity that is working within the local area and the donations and gifts from today will make a big impact on the lives of those who are supported by the chosen charities.”