Every 5 years, Marlborough College pupils undertake a 20 mile sponsored walk in aid of a range of charities. Each House at Marlborough will be supporting 3 causes for this event. 50% of what we raise as a House will go towards our chosen charity and the other 50% will be divided between the two charities chosen by the school.

Our charity rep, in conjunction with the whole house, has chosen to support ‘Sporting Chance' which we view as a great cause. Please donate generously because everything we raise will go to three amazing causes.

When donating please put the full name of the pupils who you are sponsoring in the comments box. This is so that we can get an idea of who is raising the most money.

Below is a summary of each charity:

Sporting Chance is a charity that aims to provide the children of South Africa with a 'Sporting Chance', it gives people the opportunity to leave, through sport, the poverty that they would otherwise be destined for.
C2 aim for our donations to go towards sponsoring Bonga Makaka through his tuition and eductation. Bonga is a young boy of 10yrs with extrodinary raw talent. During the 2012 cricket tour to South Africa Marlborough College pupils helped coach 10 year old children from Khayelitsha, a shanty town with half the population under the age of 19. Here they found Bonga's unbelievable talent and during a cricket tournament Bonga managed to impress the head master of the best cricketing school in South Africa, Wynburg Boys High, so much so that he was offered a full cricketing scholarship.
C2 therefore decided to sponsor Bonga, through Sporting Chance, to help pay for the tuition and education that will enable him to meet the required grades to get into Wynburg.

Lord’s Taverners is the official charity for recreational cricket and the UK’s leading youth cricket and disability sports charity whose objective is to 'give young people, particularly those with special needs, a sporting chance’.

Kempson-Rosedale Enterprise Trust is in memory of Rupert Rosedale, who died in an avalanche on Ben Nevis, and Mr Kempson who took part in Everest expeditions in the 1950s. Both were former Marlborough college teachers and great climbers. It allows students to carry out projects that fall within these two exceptional men’s interests.

 

The link below will take you to a website showing how much money the College has raised online so far and how much C2 has raised in comparison with the other houses.

www.justgiving.com/teams/mc