Charitable Work
Throughout the course of the year, we always ensure that we support as many charitable causes as possible. Our children and families always go above and beyond to help other who are perhaps less fortunate than ourselves.
Charitable Events
Fundraising Timetable – Holy Family Catholic Primary and Nursery School 2025-26
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Autumn 1 |
Autumn 2 |
Spring 1 |
Spring 2 |
Summer 1 |
Summer 2 |
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World Mental Health Day 'Hello Yellow'
Harvest Collection for School Community and ‘Boxes of Hope’ Gorse Hill Churches |
‘Children in Need’
‘Poppy Appeal’
‘Santa to a Senior’
‘Save the Children’: Christmas Jumper Day
Nativity Collection: ‘Night Shelter’ |
‘Mission Together’ Collection
Non Uniform £1
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Cafod ‘Big Lent Walk’
‘Red Nose Day’
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Launch of appeal for donations in advance of ‘Refugee Week’
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Refugee Week for the ‘Harbour Project’
Julia’s House Big Teddy Takeover
‘Holy Family’ Fundraising Year 5/6 Production Tickets |
Harvest Collection 2025
Every year, our school community comes together to collect food for those in need. Chaplaincy Leaders and the staff at Holy Family, would like to say a big thank you again for your generosity in contributing to the, “Harvest Festival,” donation day. After food was sorted by our Chaplaincy Leads, some was distributed to nominated members of our Parish and the rest was taken by volunteers for 'Boxes of Hope.' They were astounded by your generosity!
Poppy Appeal 2025
Our Poppy Appeal was a great success this year raising a huge £111.83. Special thanks go to our Chaplaincy Leads and the Year 6 children who assisted with this collection.
Children in Need 2025
Thank you for your support, our cake Friday sale raised £46.80 this year!
Save the Children Christmas Jumper Appeal 2025
The 16th and 17th December were Christmas Lunch days. Children were invited to wear a Christmas Jumper to raise money for 'Save the Children' charity. We are delighted to say we have raised £128! Thank you to all those who participated!
Night shelter - Christmas Carols/Nativity 2025
We are pleased to tell you that the collections at the KS2 Carol Service, KS1 Nativity and the EYFS Sing A Long, managed to raise £42.42 for the Swindon Night Shelter. Thank you once again for your generosity.
Big Teddy Takeover 2025
Parents donated £150 as part of Julia's House Big Teddy Takeover Day. £75 will be donated to Julia's House and £75 will be used to help with resourcing our ELSA provision in school. Thank you to those parents who kindly donated.
World Mental Health Day - Hello Yellow 2024
Children in Need 2024
Thank you for your support, our cake Friday sale raised £34 this year!
Poppy Appeal 2024
Another amazing result this year! £168.14 raised for this worthy cause. Thank you for your support!
Santa to a Senior 2024
Coming Soon!
Save the Children - Christmas Jumper 2024
Coming Soon!
Harvest Collection 2024
On behalf of the Chaplaincy Leaders and the staff at Holy Family, we would like to say a big thank you for your generosity in contributing to the, “Harvest Festival,” donation day. After food was sorted by our Chaplaincy Club, some was distributed to nominated members of our Parish and the rest was taken by volunteers for 'Boxes of Hope.' They were astounded by your generosity!
Harvest Collection 2024
Archive Charitable Work
Take a look at all of the wonderful charity work that took place across 2023-2024! We would like to give a huge thank you to all who support us in our fundraising efforts last year.
As we move into 2024-2025 we have lots of plans going forward, please check back to see how we continue our work this academic year!
Harvest Collection 2023
On behalf of the Chaplaincy leaders and staff at Holy Family, we would like to say a big thank you for your generosity in contributing to the, “Harvest Festival,” donation day.
You have donated more than 225 kilos of food which is already being packed into boxes to be passed on to people who are struggling with the current cost of living. We are very grateful for your support!
As well as supporting our local community, the Chaplaincy Leads sorted the rest into packages for the 'Boxes of Hope' Charity.
Poppy Appeal 2023
Our Poppy Appeal was a great success this year raising a huge £220.75. Special thanks go to our Chaplaincy Leads and the Year 6 children who assisted with this collection.
Be a Santa to a Senior 2023
Once again this year, the Chaplaincy Lead Team invited everyone to be involved with a charity called “Be a Santa to a Senior” . The Leads encouraged members of our school community to make or donate gifts that can ideally fit into an A4 envelope. Ideas included pictures and drawings, puzzles, crosswords, cards, crafts, letters, and bookmarks – these small presents will bring a smile to the face of an older person this Christmas.
The children of Holy Family all took part with the aim of brightening someone's day at Christmas time!
Christmas Jumper Day - Save the Children 2023
The 12th and 13th December were Christmas Lunch days. Children were invited to wear a Christmas Jumper to raise money for 'Save the Children' charity. We are delighted to say we have raised £136! Thank you to all those who participated!
Night Shelter
We are pleased to tell you that the collections at the KS2 Carol Service, KS1 Nativity and the EYFS Sing A Long, managed to raise £98.29 for the Swindon Night Shelter. Thank you once again for your generosity.
Red Nose Day 2024
We are please to announce that the 20p Cake Sale on Friday 15th March, raised £35.90 for Comic Relief. Thank you to everyone who participated.
The Big Lent Walk 2024
This Lent our school supported CAFOD with other schools around the country to help fight poverty around the world.
To raise money, we carried out a Big Lent Walk on Wednesday 27th March. Children were asked to wear non-uniform on this day and contribute £1 with proceeds going to CAFOD.
As part of our Big Lent Walk, everyone in school joined together in the ‘Stations of the Cross’ led by our Chaplaincy Leads. This event was due to take place outside, however, due to rain a Stations of the Cross assembly was held instead. All of our Chaplaincy Leads took part and coped admirably with the last minute change. In between the downpours, classes then carried out circuits of the playground. Families and Staff raised a huge £210.59 for Cafod. Thank you to the Team for leading our worship and for promoting our Big Lent Walk in school with their posters. A massive thank you to everyone who took part and contributed to the event.
Mission Together 2024
We are absolutely amazed to announce that, through the Little Red Box Scheme, you have raised a whopping £293.91 this year! This is the most the school has ever raised for Mission Together. Money raised through Mission Together funds children’s projects in 159 countries. Thank you for your support and generosity.
thank you from father anthony.pdf
Harbour Project - Refugee Week 2024
A massive ‘thank you’ for all of the donations you kindly sent in as part of our ‘Refugee Week’ drive. Everyone has definitely filled some of the shopping list requirements and we are sure that “The Harbour Project” will share them with those in need. Our Leads helped to sort and pack your donations.
Julia's House - Big Teddy Takeover 2024
Last year, Holy Family staff and children took part in the Swindon Big Art Dog Trail. The trail raised a fantastic £154,800 for Julia’s House and they had 40 different schools and community groups get involved with designing one of the pups.
On Thursday 20th June, Julia’s House held their Big Teddy Takeover and Holy Family joined in! Everyone was invited to bring their favourite cuddly toys and a £1 donation. A total of £244.45 was raised. This was split between Julia's House and Holy Family School to help with resourcing ELSA provision. Thank you to everyone involved!
Holy Family Fundraising - Y6 Production 2024
Well done to all Year 5 and 6 children for putting on such a fantastic production! They really did work hard learning all the actions, lyrics and words! At the end of both performances, there was a collection taken to raise money for the Y6 Production 2025. You raised £155.10! Thank you for your support and generosity.
Swinpup in aid of Julia's House - 2022-2023
This year Holy Family are taking part in 'The Big Dog Art Trail' in aid of Julia's House.
Julia’s House is your local children’s hospice charity, providing a lifeline of care for the most seriously ill children and their families across Wiltshire and Dorset.
In May, Holy Family adopted it very own Swinpup and set out on a journey to raise as much money as possible to support this cause.
The children of Holy Family alongside our very talented Mrs Lee designed a Swinpup to represent Holy Family encompassing our whole school Mission Statement and Virtues. Our Swinpup will be based at the Wyvern Theatre over the summer holidays and is one of 40 Swinpup's and 30 Swindog's based around Swindon making up the 'The Big Dog Art Trail'.
All classes across the school took part in a range of sponsored activities:
Bush Babies Nursery - A sponsored nursery rhyme sing a long dressed as their favourite nursery rhyme character.
Key Stage 1 - Sponsored agility hour
Year 3 and 4 - Sponsored walk around the local area.
Year 5 and 6 - Ice Lolly sale.
Lots of fun was had by all whilst supporting a wonderful cause!
January 2024 - We’ve just received the impact report from the Big Dog Art Trail in Swindon last summer and thought you may be interested in having a read of how your support continues to allow Julia’s House to support the most seriously ill children, and their families, in Wiltshire.