£39,000 raised for important causes: Social Action Week 2025

Now in its eighth year, Social Action Week offers Year 12 students the opportunity to step beyond the classroom and into their communities, supporting charities of their choice through proactive fundraising and hands-on social action. From bake sales to sports tournaments, creative challenges to community events, this year’s efforts were bigger and bolder than ever before.

All week, groups of Year 12 students were hard at work - on campus and all over Cambridge - in their efforts to raise as much as they possibly could for their chosen charity. 

2025 beneficiary causes ranged from local community initiatives to international humanitarian organisations, and everything in between: RNLI, Mind, British Heart Foundation, Connected Lives, Petals, Jimmy's, Young Minds, Medical Aid for Palestinians, Samaritans Cambridge, Cambridge Women’s Aid, Stand Up to Cancer, and many, many more.

Students were incredibly creative in their efforts and deployed a huge range of fundraising ideas.

Many chose tailor-made attractions as their fundraising draw, such as children’s games, circus-inspired activities and a tennis tournament. 

Activities cropping up across Cambridge included craft stalls, face painting, interactive murals, or even more unconventional methods such as offering the chance to throw a pie or a water balloon at a volunteer! 

To raise such an amount is truly an outstanding achievement, and everyone who took part should feel extremely proud.