The Cotswold School community supports our NHS

Parents and carers of children at The Cotswold School raised £1,240 for local NHS staff.

The money has gone towards providing healthy ready-meals for busy staff on wards.

Karen Organ of Cheltenham and Gloucester Hospitals Charity, who received the donation, said, “We want to thank everyone from the Cotswold School community for helping to support our NHS staff as they continue to work throughout the pandemic. Our teams are working long hours on COVID wards and to be able to give them a healthy hot meal, that they do not have to think about, is really important. The staff feel so valued by this kind and generous support and we would like thank everyone that has donated.”

The initiative came about when parent Pamela Stevenson asked if the school could add to the support that they wanted to give during the most critical weeks of the pandemic. Pamela is a former nurse at Cheltenham Hospital and now a community nurse for Kate’s Home Nursing, based in Bourton-on-the-Water. She and daughter Poppy, one of our students, were creating bags of treats – from sweets to hand-cream – to distribute to ward staff.

The school put out the call to its families to donate to Pamela and Poppy’s campaign. Mr Morgan said,

“We knew that parents and carers would get behind a request to support our NHS and we are delighted that we have been able to channel their help for this cause.”

Within a fortnight contributions reached £1,240. The healthy ready-meals are being made by The Long Table, a social-enterprise based in Stroud.