Travel & Tourism students on sponsored fancy dress walk

Travel & Tourism students who did the sponsored fancy dress walk

Around fifty students studying the Travel amp; Tourism course at Hopwood Hall College organised and took part in a sponsored walk to raise funds for Springhill Hospice and also to help fund a class trip to Holland on Friday 20 October.

The five mile walk from Middleton Campus to Rochdale Campus took the students and their tutors around two hours as they popped in to local businesses en-route to ask them to dig deep in aid of the Hospice. The students dressed up as witches, ghouls, nurses, nuns, cowgirls, fairies and one came dressed as a giant pizza! 

The students, who are all training for careers in the travel industry regularly organise fundraising events as part of their course and earlier in the year raised over seven thousand pounds for Christies, Barnados, the NSPCC and Breast Cancer Awareness. 

Jenni Lea Chown celebrated her 18th birthday that day and came dressed as an angel. She said: “As we walked though Castleton I saw that my mum had decorated the house with banners and balloons to wish me happy birthday and she was waving through the window as we all went past wearing our costumes! We asked our friends and families to sponsor us, which is the money that will be used to fund the trip to Holland and the money raised in the collection buckets will be going to Springhill. We are aiming to raise £100 per student but we still need to wait for the final count. All the shops and businesses we called into were so generous I’m pretty sure we will hit our target – it was tough trying to walk all that way carrying so much loose change!”

To find out more about courses on offer at Hopwood Hall, go along to an Open Evening at Rochdale Campus on Thursday 23 November or at Middleton Campus on Tuesday 21 November from 4pm-8pm.