Students at Oasis Academy Coulsdon are pulling out all the stops this week to celebrate Oasis’s 30^th birthday by hosting fundraising activities to raise money in support of the charities work worldwide with those in need.

“A lot of our students were unaware of the fantastic work Oasis carries out beyond the walls of education, and so when the work of Oasis was shared with them in celebration assemblies they were inspired to do something to help” says Rachel Dooley, Associate Assistant Principal who is running the London Marathon this April for Oasis. The target students have set themselves is £1200, and as an extra incentive teachers at the Academy have promised a ‘sponge the teacher’ event later in the year if the target is achieved.

The work of Oasis began 30 year ago with a housing project in the UK, opening a hostel in South East London for vulnerable young women. From there they have worked in community youth work, have set up churches to transform communities and have supported anti-trafficking campaigns worldwide to bring support to those where it is needed most. It is all of this that has inspired the students of Coulsdon to do what they can to help make a difference.

Events taking place this week include an inter-house multisport competition at lunchtimes where students will pay to enter and battle it out to complete the course in the shortest time possible claiming glory for their House, cake sales and a mufti day at the end of the week. An impressive number of students have are also taking raising money through sponsored silences, hopping and of course onesie wearing.