Community Partnerships (Radius)

Radius

“We are delighted to get this fantastic support from the parents and pupils at Notting Hill Prep. The funds raised will go directly to giving local children, who’ve been affected by Grenfell, a summer to remember. This included opportunities for arts, drama, sport and day trips, to help build children’s confidence, learning and social skills. Thank you to everyone at Notting Hill Prep for making this possible.” Carol Ann Scott, Project Manager at RISE Kids

Radius is our community partnerships programme. We work closely with a number of local primary schools and charitable organisations, with a focus on improving and enriching the lives of primary-school aged children.

Through Radius we identify and support community-based endeavours that align with NHP’s core values. With the support of the Parents’ Association, the Foundation aims to provide both financial assistance and to share resources with the wider community through project funding and running regular events with local primary schools and organisations.

We believe all pupils mutually benefit from these partnerships, developing a motivation to help and raise awareness of the needs of others from an early age. Through striving to create a school environment that more closely represents the diversity of our local area, we offer a richer and more meaningful educational experience for all students involved.

Since its launch in 2020, the NHP community has raised over £60,000 for Radius projects, reaching over 1000 students and a number of local schools and organisations. Each year, we hope to be able to support a larger project through funding a specific area of need within a local school or charitable organisation.

Radius is able to provide financial assistance to projects in the region of £3,000-£5,000. If you have a local charity in mind who needs our support, or a local project focussed on improving and enriching the lives of local primary school aged children, we would love to hear from you! Please contact the Head of School Development, Imogen, on imogeng@nottinghillprep.com.

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Current Projects

The Notting Hill Children's Community Choir

The NHCCC is a weekly community choir based on fun, not ability, which we launched in 2021 for eight participating local primary schools, including NHP. Up to 48 children meet each week at the Notting Hill Methodist Church to have fun, sing together and enjoy working with other schools.

We are currently working with Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary, Oxford Gardens Primary, Colville Primary, St Mary’s Primary, Thomas Jones Primary, Avondale Park Primary and St Charles Primary.

“The best thing about choir for me is making new friends from different schools. Our confidence grew more too because we realised the atmosphere was just so friendly.” NHCCC member

Watch our Community Choir in action

St Francis of Assisi Weekly Drama Club

We are funding a weekly Drama club at St Francis of Assisi Primary for the Summer term. Drama is a vital tool to enable children to express themselves in a safe space, something St Francis have seen have a hugely positive impact on their pupils. We are delighted to enable the provision of this free club for St Francis of Assisi pupils to continue for another term.

“We want to broaden Children’s horizons and ambitions. We want them to feel that regardless of their circumstances and financial constraints that they too can express themselves creatively and confidently” – St Francis of Assisi Primary

Avondale Park Primary Weekly PE lessons

From January 2025, we are delighted to have supported the provision of a weekly PE lesson for Avondale Park Primary School’s Year 6 pupils. Avondale is currently unable to afford this essential part of every child’s development and we are delighted to be able to help.

Thanks to the incredible support shown by our NHP community, we were able to raise enough to fund these sessions for Year 5 pupils at Avondale this term too!

“Thank you so much for arranging this. The Netball is going really well and my class especially have improved lots and are showing good progress. The children have learnt so much and are really enjoying their PE” – Avondale Park Primary School