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Charitable status

2008-06-19T14:24:00.002+01:00

Our sister company, Education For All Morocco Limited, has now received charitable status by the Charity Commission for England and Wales. This is what the charity has been legally set up to achieve:

“For such charitable purposes as the trustees see fit in particular but not exclusively by the provision of funding for NGOs (Non Governmental Organisations) and the provision of grants and other services to enable children to attend educational establishments in Morocco”

Charity Dinner in aid of Education For All

2008-06-12T13:02:00.004+01:00

Charity dinner for Education For All will take place at 7.30 p.m. on the 27th June 2008 at The Lion, 27 Wick Road, Teddington, TW11 9DN.

Ticket price £40 (non-refundable) in aid of Education For All

To reserve a place, please contact Andy Philips,

BGS team sells Moroccan jewellery

2008-05-05T21:09:00.001+01:00

The team of 11 students from Bristol Grammar who recently visited Asni were keen to continue fundraising after they returned. An idea of a team member was to buy beads and jewellery in Morocco and then use this to make more jewellery on return to sell at a big North Bristol Fair (The Redland May Fair). We also provided a setting-up and tidying-up service for the Fair and were paid £150 and given a free stall for doing this. Before the fair officially opened we had our first customer—who spent £35! Overall we raised just over £400 on the day. The students grew more confident in their selling skills and a large number of people found out about our project. Three of the team’s parents helped out and three staff from BGS. An enjoyable day and a good fundraiser.

2008 Charity Bike Holiday

2008-04-16T11:56:00.007+01:00

Thank you to all who supported this event in raising funds for Education For All

Read Charlie Whitfield’s 2008 Bike Holiday blog
See pictures of the 2008 Bike Holiday
More pictures of Bike Holiday and boarding house opening

To sign up to next year’s Charity Bike Holiday, please contact Mike at

Official opening of our first girl’s boarding house in Asni

2008-04-15T11:35:00.000+01:00

The Governor D’Al Haouz Province opens the new boarding house in Asni.
To see pictures of the event as well as photos of the students, please visit the photos page.

Morocco and India fundraiser week

2008-03-25T15:00:00.004Z

Fulham Cross Girls’ School is partnered with several schools across the world, two of which are in India and Morocco. As a way of raising funds for theses two schools and to celebrate our global and diverse community, we put together a whole week of events in and out of lessons. All across the school, teachers and pupils worked together to make this a very special week. Arabic was taught in Language lessons instead of the traditional French and Spanish, in the Geography lessons students compared life and education in India, Morocco and the UK, and they also studied foreign poetry in their English lessons. During break and lunchtime, we sold food prepared by students, parents and staff to raise money. We also held a catwalk at lunchtime were students showed off traditional clothes from their countries of origin. After school, several activities took place. We learned how to make samosas in an Indian cooking lesson, some former pupils came back to teach us how to cook the traditional Moroccan dish called Zalook and we also watched a lively and charming demonstration of Bollywood dancing. Pupils and parents showed off their artistic skills by doing henna tattoos while the queuing “customers” were enjoying a display of Moroccan dancing. The week culminated in a celebratory non-uniform day when staff and pupils came dressed in traditional clothing celebrating our diversity of origins. It was a fabulous week all round and certainly an experience enjoyed by all that will be repeated next year!

Inaugural newsletter

2007-12-17T12:27:00.000Z

Our first newsletter is now online. If you would like to subscribe to our newsletters, please send your details via the newsletter subscription page.

Supermarket bag packing

2007-11-15T12:28:00.000Z

On Saturday 10th November, 11 Lower 6th students from Bristol Grammar School spent 5 hours packing bags at the Clifton branch of Sainsbury’s. This raised £550 for Education for all and also raised awareness - we produced a leaflet on what we were doing and popped one into each carrier bag. As a fund-raiser, this seems to have lots going for it. The supermarket gains from a group of students assisting packing bags and chatting to shoppers. The students benefit as it needs planning, organisation and commitment. The School benefits from the PR and raised public awareness. Supermarkets vary in their willingness to allow students to bag-pack but we have always found Sainsbury’s particularly helpful.

Foundations laid

2007-10-22T20:25:00.000+01:00

Twelve students from Bristol Grammar School raised nearly £5000 for Education For All and helped lay the foundations for our first boarding house in Asni.

Andrew Dimberline, Head of Leadership Development at Bristol Grammar School, first planned the 8-day trip back in September 2006 having been inspired by the Education For All project. He asked students to apply for a place on the trip and in their application to state how they would raise £200 for the project. A place on the trip was conditional on the students being able to raise these funds, not through a ‘parental donation’, but by fund-raising events.

Charity Auction

2007-07-13T14:48:00.000+01:00

A Charity Gala Dinner and Auction in aid of Education For All was held at the beautiful Jnane Tamsna, Marrakech Palmeraie on the 6th July 2007 and succeeded in raising over €11,000. There were some fabulous items up for grabs in the auction including holidays in Morocco and beyond. For more details and pictures of the event, please visit the Charity auction event mini-site.