Pipers helps protect Rainforest 

The school received a certificate this week recognising the contribution of our Eco Club HOPE who raised over £900 for Rainforest Concern. This amount is the biggest single donation from any UK school in the past year.

Mr Williams, our Environmentalist-in-Residence, has supported Rainforest Concern for over 20 years; a British charity who work with local communities and projects to protect tropical rainforests and related wildlife. 

Earlier this year, HOPE came up with the idea of a ‘Green Week’ to draw people’s attention to how we as individuals impact the world. During the week, the HOPE group ran a Mufti day where students paid a donation to participate, and they organised a swap shop for donated clothes with a voluntary contribution to the charity.  

One beneficiary of the money HOPE raised is a project in the Maquipucuna Cloud forest in Ecuador. Rainforest Concern are creating corridors of secondary forest to encourage South America’s rare spectacled bear to move through to better food and breeding grounds.  

The money raised will sponsor 18 acres of rainforest to "extend and protect The Choco-Andean Rainforest Corridor Project in northwest Ecuador and the great biodiversity found in this region."

The director of Rainforest Concern was so grateful he has agreed to visit the school, once the situation allows, to give a talk on the charity’s work and why it is so important to protect rainforests. Major scientists suggest that if we do not address the destruction of the rainforest by 2060 there may be no rainforest left, only small national parks.