The PE Charity Crew came about when pupils of Horizon Community College happened to be participating in the Sheffield Fun Run where Miss Natalie Kerr was running the Sheffield 10K. The pupils asked Miss Kerr what she was doing and was told she was running in aid of The Sheffield Children’s Hospital Bedroom Appeal. Our amazing, thoughtful, proactive pupils then asked through PE lessons if they could get their classes involved to help raise further funds.  My answer was of course yes!

A very good friend of Miss Kerr, Helen Beck from the Holiday Inn Royal Victoria in Sheffield experienced first-hand, the amazing work of The Sheffield Children’s Hospital. Her daughter´s life was saved by the remarkable doctors and nurses at the hospital when she was only 5 weeks old, now a lively 3 year old she is inspiring many people to help our cause. In honour of this, Helen Beck has set out to raise £25,000 for the bedroom appeal, in which Horizon PE Charity Crew hope to raise £5000 of it.

On the 25^th and 26^th of November the PE Charity Crew provided all of the refreshments for the Candyland Dance Show. It was very touching that Helen, her son Kieran and her daughter Amelia came into school to meet us all and get involved in decorating cakes and setting up for our 1^st event. Here, we would like to make a special thank you to Kelly’s Bakery who donated masses of ingredients to enable the pupils to make and decorate the many cakes for us to sell.  Also to mick.mitchell@designandimageworks.com who very kindly took some wonderful photos which has now enabled us to highlight the fantastic work our pupils are doing and promote their future fund raising events. From this event alone, we raised an amazing £1031.70.