Community Service

Community Service Summer Camp 2011Winchester College' s Community Service programme involves a diverse range of activities for 300 boys, from visiting hospitals to drama with Mencap. Through these activities, the boys come to appreciate the value of service, and the importance of a sense of community.
  
Aims

To provide over 300 worthwhile activities for enhancing boys' social awareness within the city of Winchester and beyond.

To foster a caring ethos by engaging in weekly commitments of service to others.

To nurture strong relations with the wider community.

Activities

  • Conservation volunteering work with the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust
  • River keeping: enhancing the River Itchen SSSI and chalk stream habitat
  • Providing environmental services in the immediate vicinity of St Cross
  • Assisting Royal Hampshire County Hospital Radio
  • Royal Hampshire County Hospital Visiting
  • Working alongside staff at six local primary schools and assisting children with individual reading and collective sporting activities
  • Running a ‘Science for Schools' programme
  • Providing support at a local Special Needs secondary school
  • Running two external Chess Clubs for local primary school children
  • Annual Primary Schools Concert in New Hall
  • Annual Primary Schools Christmas Pantomine in Queen Elizabeth Theatre
  • Visiting the Elderly in six local care homes
  • Visiting the Brothers of St Cross
  • Training a group of ‘Entertainers' who regularly visit local care homes
  • Gardening for the Elderly
  • Annual Christmas Party for the Elderly, held in School
  • Supporting dons with a range of on-site activities including Aikido, Boat Club, Football, Fencing, Basketball, Fives, Racquets, Gardening, Kenneth Clark Society, Art School, music recording, theatre work, production and editing of Quelle and the Wykehamist
  • Assisting with weekly Disabled Swimming sessions at River Park Leisure Centre
  • Serving in local charity shops
  • Sorting clothing and toys at Naomi House warehouse
  • Football for the Homeless from Trinity House
  • Supporting the Winchester Night Shelter for the homeless by preparing meals every evening during term-time
  • Supporting local churches with organ playing on Sunday mornings
  • Assisting with voluntary work in the Cathedral Refectory
  • Summer BBQ in Warden's Garden for organisations who assist the programme

Director of Community Service: Mrs Clare Talks

Developing Community Service for the future

  • Bi-annual Community Service project to Romania to help disadvantaged and disabled Romanian children. 
  • Annual Summer Camp in the Isle of Purbeck for locally disadvantaged children
  • Initiate a project supporting an AIDS orphanage in Uganda.  A former Chaplain of the College is based in Kampala.

View the 2010 Romania report here and the 2011 CS Summer Camp report here.