Harvest Hoard Donated to Charity

Today, on Monday 8 October, Shiplake College pupils gathered up their donations for the annual Harvest Offering. This year, the College collected an expanse of pants, boxes of boxers and a trunk of trunks to be donated to the Christians in Reading Drop-in Centre.

Pupils were asked to bring in packs or multi-packs of underwear (male and female), toothpaste and deodorant to donate to the Drop-in Centre in Reading, which offers vital services to people living outside of caring communities. They give food to the hungry, clothe the cold, and provide invaluable facilities that homeless people would otherwise not have access to. 

Assisting Rev’d Stephen Cousins with the collection were Head of College Josh Howard, Head Chapel Warden Oscar Rait and Deputy Dan Anstey, and Prefects Rosie Burling and Eve Dowden, who helped to box and rebox the donations, and to pack them into a College minibus to be delivered to the Drop-in Centre in Central Reading.

Last year, the School supported CIRDIC by donating over 1,200 pairs of socks and 1,100 razors.

Rev’d Cousins said, ‘With a few senior students, I delivered the donations from our Harvest project to the Drop-in Centre this morning which amounted to hundreds of pairs of boxer shorts and several hundred tubes of toothpaste and deodorant. I would like to say a very big thank you to you all and your parents for their generosity and many thanks also to the girls of Gilson House for their slightly different project for the centre.

The Manager of the centre was emotionally overwhelmed with the generosity of the College.’