Children at Hensingham Primary School are calling on local businesses to support their Community Pet Parade this weekend.
This year’s Centre for Leadership Performance Bright Stars Project is all about Making a Difference and the year two pupils at the Whitehaven school are getting stuck into the challenge.
After researching people and organisations that had been affected by the pandemic, the children decided to help a cause close to their hearts – animals – and teamed up with Animal Concern Cumbria (ACC), to help raise vital funds.
Working with businesses signed up to the project, the pupils have developed a business plan, created a digital marketing campaign and designed posters and logos so everyone knows who the Hensingham Helping Heroes are and what they are doing to make a difference to their community.
They have set up a Facebook page to share their ideas with the wider community, created a just giving page linked directly to the charity and will be hosting events to raise money and resources including a Pet Food Donation Raffle and a Community Pet Parade, which will take place on Saturday.
They have written letters to local business to ask for support through donations of prizes and to members of the community to ask them to put posters up in exchange for publicity on their media pages.
The children at the Cumbria Education Trust school got a special treat when staff and volunteers from the charity visited to share information about what they do for animals.
This includes rehoming and adoption, funding vet fees through their Peppa’s Pot Campaign and providing educational talks on looking after pets.
They also took along some furry friends, one rehomed by ACC, and the children had a fabulous time.
Assistant headteacher Jenny Walker said: “It has been lovely to see the children so keen and eager to get the project going.
“They had lots of great ideas for events and activities and have really embraced the making a difference theme.
“They have thought carefully about how they can involve people from the community as well as make it fun for everyone involved.”
The children are asking people to visit the Hensingham Helping Heroes Facebook page to find out more https://www.facebook.com/HensinghamPrimarySchool
