St Dunstan’s Educational Foundation
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FOREWORD by Headmaster, Nicholas Hewlett I am delighted to share with you this summary of St Dunstan’s community benefit and partnership work across 2019-20. This was a year like no other. But despite the extraordinary challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, there is still so much to celebrate, not least the compassion and creativity of our community as we have adapted to new and different ways of working. Although we were unable to end the year with the well-established St Dunstan’s Festival, I was very proud of the fact that through the pandemic we were able to cement even further our connections with our local community – donating unused food to local food banks, continuing to open the school for the children of key workers, opening up the Jubilee Grounds for NHS staff to use for parking, and donating all our goggles, eye defenders, aprons and gloves to a variety of hospitals and care homes. The Design Engineering Department used our laser cutters and 3D printers to produce much needed face shields for hospitals and care homes – over 200 were distributed to those working on the frontline against the pandemic.
We continue to offer our sports facilities in the centre of Catford for community use, and I am delighted that they are utilised so extensively. Our Jubilee Ground is now widely used by local clubs, offering increased opportunities for hockey, tennis, basketball and netball, as well as cricket, football and rugby across the borough of Lewisham and beyond. We look forward to the opening of our new facilities in April 2021 which will afford even more opportunity for community engagement. We have also made great strides in sustainability this year, with valuable input from the student Sustainability Committee leading to some really forward-thinking developments which are celebrated in this brochure. I do hope you will enjoy looking through this summary and find it as heartening as I do. We would continue to welcome any dialogue with local charities and community groups to engage with us in how we can further develop stronger links between St Dunstan’s College and the area of which we are proud to be a part.
Mr Nicholas Hewlett Headmaster, St Dunstan’s College
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O U T R E AC H A N D C O M M U N I T Y PA RT N E R S H I P S I WELCOME
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SUPPORTING CHILDREN AND LOCAL SCHOOLS
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SUPPORTING CHILDREN AND LOCAL SCHOOLS Bursaries
695,182 was provided through our Bursary programme In total
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families received bursary assistance of some kind
£50,000 was given to the London Academy of Excellence Tottenham supporting their work improving social mobility
through excellence in 16+ education
The St Dunstan's Benevolent Fund supported families
through hardship, gifting more than
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Lewisham Historical society had free use of our facilities for their monthly lectures
SUPPORTING CHILDREN AND LOCAL SCHOOLS
St Dunstan’s led subject knowledge enhancement sessions in Physics, both in person (2 hours – 15 teachers) and online (7 hours – 62 teachers), for state school teachers at Sedgehill School, St Matthew’s Academy and United Learning Academy Chain Collaboration with local
Rathfern Primary School were given
free use
schools welcoming students for regular masterclasses
of our Great Hall to host their annual Christmas celebration
St Dunstan’s community choir of parents, alumni and local singers
Our swimming pool was made accessible every week to support Rathfern Primary School’s swim
programme
of the Catford community met regularly to sing together
Our musicians aided community worship at Southwark Cathedral, All Hallows by the Tower and St Augustine’s Church
St Dunstan’s was a centre for the community for those children who wished to enter
Associated Board Music examinations
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SPORT
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Swimming The pool was a training
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13 000 swimming lessons were delivered to local children at the St Dunstan’s Swim School
venue for Orpington O Jays Swimming Club
The pool was an IQL (Institute of Qualified Lifeguard) registered training centre
Grass Pitch Hire / Sport Hire
Football Over 13,000 hours of hire was made available to the public on our synthetic sports pitches annually The St Dunstan’s Jubilee Ground offered free access to 900 local primary school children who attended Lewisham School Games Football events over 3 days
Free use of our pitches was provided for Lewisham’s district football squad
Lewisham’s London Youth Games football squad was given free access to train ahead of the event
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5 hours a week of free pitch hire was provided to Catford and Lewisham police units for training and fitness Dalmain FC provided
free Community Football development at the Jubilee Ground to local girls aged 7–12 St Dunstan’s Jubilee Ground continued as Tottenham Hotspur FC’s only Southern Football Centre offering holiday development programmes with premier league standard coaching to local children St Dunstan’s Jubilee Ground was home to Academy One sports education helping local footballers create
new opportunities through education and access to professional clubs
Our partnership with Super Camps delivered Ofsted registered holiday activity camp spaces for over 400 children from the local area Munchkin Sports delivered 5 weeks of summer camps for over 3000 local children
1700 hours of public hire were made available in our sports hall including the support of cricket, badminton and netball St Dunstan’s College hosted Goldsmith’s University Varsity Day with multiple sports being played across the main college and Jubilee Ground sites with over 500 participants and spectators
SPORT
Cricket
St Dunstan’s continued in its annual support for the MCC Community Cricket Hub providing local children with
13 weeks of free cricket coaching and pathways Catford Cyphers Cricket Club and Beckenham Cricket Club were based at the Jubilee Ground
Hockey 35 hours weekly hire were made available to local community clubs
Netball We hosted the Lewisham Schools Netball Event for 12 local schools competing at years 5 & 6
General 6 Lewisham School Games events were booked in at the Jubilee Ground for Boys and Girls Football, Netball, Mixed TAG rugby and a MultiSkills festival day
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COMMUNITY SERVICE AND CHARITY
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COMMUNITY SERVICE AND CHARITY
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students pioneered a competitive project amongst each year group to
fill the food bank in Catford library on a weekly basis
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students volunteered to help out in the
providing teaching support and after-school care Junior School,
St Dunstan’s Enterprises supported
The Royal British Legion offering the Great Hall to record their annual album
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students maintained the Catford Bridge book exchange every week
supplying new books for the local community to enjoy
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COMMUNITY SERVICE AND CHARITY
St Dunstan’s hosted the community event ‘So Last Century’, a vintage fair
Charities Macmillan Cancer Support
£815.58 Young Minds Mental Health
£829.34 Lewisham Food bank
£197.43 Sickle Cell Society
£747.15 World Wide Fund for Nature (Australia)
£1,000 Centrepoint
£409.05 Save the Children
£761.26 Crisis at Christmas
The Jubilee Ground hosted Remark Community Deaf Junior Football Training
£121.08 The total amount raised this year was
£4,880.89
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SUSTAINABILITY
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SUSTAINABILITY
1,000 bulbs planted around the College
New trees planted at the front of the College
Wildflowers planted around the College
Senior School nature and science pond built Participation in
Earth Hour
Plastic bottles no longer provided in the refectory
Computers installed with software to
automatically switch off after working hours
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SUSTAINABILITY
A new Junior School woodland classroom was developed on site
Switch off engine
Car Free Days
signs installed
introduced
Environmentally friendly construction methods employed
Food donated to local
The Junior School won Lewisham Council’s
food banks to avoid waste
Gold Air Quality award
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THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
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THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC Food and drink donated to Catford’s Saturday Soup Kitchen
More than
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items of PPE produced by St Dunstan’s Design Engineering Department. These were delivered to:
• King’s College London • St Christopher’s Hospice • Bethlem Royal Hospital • Local GP surgeries Other protective eyewear donated from the Art Department and Science Labs was given to local hospitals and GP surgeries
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• 20 jacket potatoes • 10kg new potatoes • 8 heads of cos lettuce • 170 apples • 60 oranges • 20 lemons • 2 honeydew melons • 6 pineapples • 12 cucumbers • 150 eggs
THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
St Dunstan’s Lectures were posted online for the whole
15,000 community to enjoy – more than
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Dedicated Support Hub
The Jubilee Ground was used as
created on our website featuring the latest NHS and PHE guidance, mental health advice and daily tips for lockdown suggested by teachers and pupils
Junior School pupils created poems and raps
a testing ground during the pandemic
Staff and students wore blue to
support the NHS and Key Workers
to show their support for the NHS and Key Workers during their LAMDA lessons
The College remained open during the pandemic for children of Key Workers
Food and drink deliveries
Free parking for NHS and Key Worker staff at our Jubilee Ground
made to the Trussell Trust food bank in Forest Hill
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ST DUNSTAN’S COLLEGE - OUTREACH OVERVIEW
OUTREACH OVERVIEW Financial support
Charity support
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Bursaries Scholarships Benevolent Fund London Academy of Excellence
Macmillan Cancer Support Young Minds Lewisham Food Bank Sickle Cell Society World Wide Fund for Nature Centrepoint Save the Children Crisis
Community support
Student volunteering
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Venue and facility use PPE for NHS and Key Workers Food bank donations Educational master classes for local schools Education articles in the local media
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Primary School reading sessions Catford Food Bank Catford Bridge Library After School Care
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