Entrepreneurial students raise nearly £800 for Springhill Hospice

The children at Deeplish primary school have raised more than £700 for Springhill Hospice

A group of children from a Rochdale primary school have raised more than £700 for Springhill Hospice, as part of an enterprise week which forms part of the PSHE curriculum that teaches the children valuable lessons about business and enterprise. a specialist palliative care unit that provides care for patients with life-limiting diseases. 

Pupils at Deeplish Primary Academy completed the fundraising as part of an enterprise week, which forms part of the PSHE curriculum that teaches the children valuable lessons about business and enterprise.  

The initiative saw the pupils raise an impressive £797 out of an initial £50 investment, which will allow Springhill Hospice to offer counselling sessions and provide visits from Specialist Palliative Care Nurses to patients in their own home. 

Each year  group made different items to sell, including photo frames with a picture of each child in a graduation outfit; vases and flower arrangements; key chains, necklaces and bracelets; stress balls; key rings; personalised calendars for each child and halal rocky road bars.

Hannah Rowe, Vice Principal at Deeplish Primary Academy, said: “We are incredibly proud of our children at Deeplish for their fundraising efforts. 

“The charity was voted for by the children, and they were all really driven to raise the funds as part of the enterprise week initiative, and to use their profits in a way that will benefit others in the community.” 

Sam Wells, chief executive officer at Springhill Hospice, commented: “This year is the toughest in terms of fundraising in the hospice’s history, so we are so thrilled that Deeplish Primary Academy chose to support us. The children have done an incredible job to raise £800 and this money will be spent on caring for the people of Rochdale when they need us most” 

Deeplish Primary Academy is part of Focus-Trust, a charitable primary school trust based in the Northwest of England and West Yorkshire with a vision of providing great schools at the heart of communities where children thrive, achieve, and succeed.