TEN YEARS AGO: Skegness students stage musical evening in aid of Kenya trip

Sixth Form students at Skegness Grammar School held an evening of musical entertainment 10 years ago to help raise funds for a trip to Kenya.
By David Seymour
Published 4th Dec 2020, 12:00 GMT
Updated 8th Dec 2020, 17:51 GMT
Concert organisers and participants, back, from left, Tom Downing, Tom Wardell, Pete Thicket, Benedict Kelley, front, Annabel Charlton, Lucy Adams, Lauren Bates, and Jamie Downing.Concert organisers and participants, back, from left, Tom Downing, Tom Wardell, Pete Thicket, Benedict Kelley, front, Annabel Charlton, Lucy Adams, Lauren Bates, and Jamie Downing.
Concert organisers and participants, back, from left, Tom Downing, Tom Wardell, Pete Thicket, Benedict Kelley, front, Annabel Charlton, Lucy Adams, Lauren Bates, and Jamie Downing.

The following summer, 23 students were due to travel to the East African nation as part of a Camp International scheme to help with conservation projects and to assist the community by building schools.

Each student needed to raise £3,500 to make the trip.

Ticket sales, a tombola and Christmas card sales from the evening amassed an impressive £1,420.

A fuller version of the same picture.A fuller version of the same picture.
A fuller version of the same picture.

Head of Skegness Grammar School 6th Form John Nuttall said: “The whole nature of these trips is that raising the money is as much a part of it as the trip itself.

“Whether it’s by getting jobs, paper rounds or cleaning cars it’s about committing over a long period and working towards a goal.”

Local band Charlie Don’t Surf performed for free at the event, alongside Future Fire, composed of former and current pupils at the school.

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