Behind bars for the Hospice |
| Thursday, 20 November 2008 |
 8 local teachers will fulfill their pupils' biggest wishes on Saturday when they will be put behind bars at Rickmansworth Police Station. Teachers will be led to their cells at midday as part of the Peace Hospice''s latest fundraising event.
School children will try and raise as much sponsorship as possible and the school that raises the most money, will ensure that their teacher is locked away until 8pm that evening with the remaining teachers being released at 5pm.
The Hospice''s Community Fundraiser, Emma Watson said ''The school children are absolutely fascinated by the prospect of their teacher being locked away in prison. Some of the younger children don''t want to see their teacher locked up but the older ones, can''t wait for them to be taken away.
This event has really captured the imagination of everyone involved but our primary aim is to raise awareness to children about the work of the Hospice and to hopefully raise as much money as possible. Lots of schools are trying really hard to ensure that their teacher stays in jail as long as possible!
I would like to thank all the teachers who have been such good sports and to the Rickmansworth Police Station for helping us run this event''.
One of the school teachers taking part, Rosie Alexander from Meryfield Community Primary School said “Whilst I’m not exactly relishing the thought of being locked up, it is for an excellent cause and I have been reassured that I will be treated kindly. The Peace Hospice carries out excellent work in our community and having had personal experience with hospices and knowing that some of our children have been referred to their STARS bereaved children programme, it is a local charity that I thought was well worth supporting!”
The other teachers taking part are Christopher Kronda (Berrygrove Primary & Nursery School), David Peel (The Russell School), Mari Tomaney (Maple Cross J M I School), Ray Randall (Knutsford School) and Philip Gibbs (Divine Saviour Roman Catholic Primary School)
For more information on the Hospice''s events programme, call the fundraising team on 01923 330340.
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