This years Lenten charity is “DreamMaker Foundation” which is a charity which was established by Les Hoey MBE. It is a charity that helps  children and their families who are going through life threatening and gruelling treatments by granting them wishes through meeting their idols and creating lovely memories.

At Christmas time we were very fortunate when Les Hoey donated many bag full of toys and selection boxes to St Patrick’s and we were able to distribute these to many pupils in our school community.

At a recent Children’s Council meeting the pupils suggested this charity and the staff have all embraced it.

There are going to be lots of fundraising activities over the next three weeks – including purchasing stars for £1 to make our “Reach for the Stars” display, purchasing badges/pencils from DreamMaker, selling tea/toast, hot dogs day, dress up day, Easter Egg colouring competitions and raffles. Please support this fantastic charity if you can and of course get in touch if you have any other ideas to support us.

Finally Les Hoey has  agreed to officially open the trim trail and hopefully we will be able to present a cheque to his company on this day. There will be more information to follow.