Unicorn has always been active in the local community, and beyond.
Participation frequently includes singing at a nearby day care centre and support for local (and national/international) charities. The school has also taken part in the Kew Gardens Gravel Pit Project and Richmond Pupil Parliament.
Community benefit audit (academic year 2008-9)
- The School Committee collected and shipped a considerable amount of clothes, books and toys to an orphanage in Swaziland. They also raised £5,000, less expenses, which provided a fully equipped playground for the children, many of whom suffer from Aids. The school has started to fund a rolling programme of education for six children from the NCP Children's Centre, Mhkaya, Swaziland. The six sponsored NCP children have started at Duze Primary School, with uniforms also funded by a Unicorn donation. All Unicorn children were involved in recording a CD which was sold to parents. Profits from the recording form part of the funds used to pay the fees.
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£664 was donated to our charity of the year, The National Society for Blind Children, with a further £5,000 donated just after year end; enough money to buy, train, and name a guide dog puppy in support of Guide Dogs for the Blind.
- Donations were also made to homeless people, the West London Action for Children, The Barn Church, Kew and the Women Refuge in Chiswick.
- Surplus school books have been donated to SchoolAid.
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Offerings from the Harvest Festival were shared with members of the local community and the children sang for the elderly at The Avenue Club in Kew.
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We have been seeking to improve our links with local state schools: several sports fixtures were organised with Kew Riverside School and an invitation was also extended to their older pupils to attend a talk about Cyber Safety and a Problem Solving Workshop, which they were unable to attend.