Bolnore school girl raises over £1,000 for rainforest

A Bolnore school girl has been raising money to help save the Amazon rainforest. Eight year old Darcie Triance was inspired to help while studying the topic at school.

She commented: “I have learnt that the rainforest provides clean air and homes for many beautiful animals but it is being cut down. My mummy said it was happening when she was little also, so it really needs to stop.”

Darcie’s mum Lucie searched online to find out how they could help. She made contact with rainforest activist Manu Maggaia who is in talks with the government to buy land to protect.

Darcie explains: “Manu runs a nature reserve area in the Amazon rainforest of Peru and he can hear loggers very close by. He is passionate about protecting the Amazon like me and he spends his days trying to save this land and the vulnerable animals who live there.”

Manu needs funds to buy more land to expand the nature reserve so he can have illegal loggers and hunters removed.

To date Darcie has raised just over £1,000 and still continues to fundraise. She raised the money by holding a yard sale, doing a fun run and running a lemonade stand with her friends. Her mum also sponsored her to not play video games during the summer.

Lucie commented: “We made a GoFundMe page and then donations stated pouring in from people who thought what Darcie was doing was great.” If you’d like to donate go to: https://bit.ly/2GgJ7jP

Bolnore School Friends launch fundraising lottery

There’s a new fundraising initiative at Bolnore’s school as the PTA launch the School Lottery.

Jo Dixon, part of the Friends of Bolnore Village Primary School, explained: “This is a fantastic way to bring parents, carers, teachers and the wider community together, in partnership with our school, and at the same time give something back. We hope to raise funds that can support and enrich the education of our children - we aim to provide extra resources for the children, improve the school environment as well as run extracurricular activities.”

Tickets cost just £1, and one person per week will receive our Bolnore Cash Prize (which is bigger the more who sign up), plus they’ll also have the chance to win £25,000 in the wider lottery draw! For every 50 regular tickets sold the school will receive £1,000 a year!

Jo tells us: “The response we’ve had since the launch has been so fantastic we’ve upped our target to 100 tickets – getting 42 sign ups in the first three days!”

If you’d like to sign up and help support the school, you can do so here: www.yourschoollottery.co.uk/lottery/school/bolnore-village-primary-school

Bolnore dads take on 3 Peaks Challenge

By Ben Harris

The Three Peakers were James Brazier, Russell Cheverst, Jamie Grant, Ben Harris, James Sherrell, Nolan Sorrell and Andy Walton. We’re all Dads of kids at Bolnore Village Primary School, and one Grandad, David Grant, was ‘safe hands’ behind the wheel. 

Our trip started from the school gates at 9am on Friday 10th August. We headed straight to Snowdon and started the clock from Pen-y-Pass at 5.45pm. We finished Snowdon in 2 hours 50 minutes, much to David’s surprise.

Scafell Pikes was ascended in the dark, beginning at about 1.30am, just before the cloud descended for the tricky walk back down. Completed by the time the sun fully rose in 3 hours 20 minutes.

Then the long drive to Fort William for the final, highest and longest peak, Ben Nevis. We set off with 6.5 hours to go, with everyone getting to the summit within three hours and then the tired, crowded, never-ending last leg down to the finish line after 5 hours 20 minutes. 

The whole challenge, once David had driven 280 miles to the start of Snowdon and then taken us safely over the 470 miles between the Peaks, was completed in 23 hours 5 minutes!

We had amazing encouragement from our wives and families through all the preparations and especially during the challenge.

We have made over £1,000 so far, for Friends of Bolnore Primary School so far, with donations coming from within Bolnore Village, kind residents of Cuckfield, Friends of Falcon Health and Complete Electrical, and our amazing families! And... the fundraising page is still open: https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/fobvps3peaks