Fundraising fun for Children in Need
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SCHOOLS, businesses and community groups across Luton, Dunstable and Houghton Regis showed their charitable side and got involved in a range of wacky activities for Children in Need on Friday.
Staff at GKN Aerospace raised more than £2,400 for the charity with the company matching their fundraising tally taking the charity haul to £4,800 with a week of fundraising activities culminating in male workers getting waxed on site.
Photographer Jan Jones and other Marsh Farm residents flocked to Futures House to help raise more than £970.
Merhia Primary school held its very first Children in Need charity event with activities including face painting, henna on hands, ‘splash the teacher’, and a bouncy castle.
An X Factor-inspired ‘N-factor’ (Nasheed factor) also took place with prizes handed out to the winner and runners-up.
Round Table members from Dunstable, Harpenden, Ampthill and Amersham teamed up to raise £1,725 with a collection at Luton Airport with a little help from Pudsey Bear.
Management & personal services apprentice Nicholas Blaik raised £138 at the team’s Leagrave Road headquarters by having his head shaved.
And at St Mary’s Lower School in Dunstable a template of Pudsey that collected coins helped raise funds for the charity.
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