Aimee McKinlay, Chelsea Harrison, Jo Brand, Karys Belfield, Callum Sheppard, Harry Robbins, Paige Franks, and lecturer Chrissi Margetts set the target to raise enough money to help fund the first year of training for a guide dog puppy.
The students hosted a final fundraising event for the academic year at Royal Leamington Spa College as they continue to work towards their £5,000 fundraising target.
Animal behaviour student Jo Brand and canine therapy student Chelsea Harrison headed to the college’s hair salon for a sponsored haircut.
The sponsored haircut also enables the students to donate 30cm of hair to the Little Princess Trust.
The Little Princess Trust provides free real hair wigs to children and young people, up to 24 years, who have lost their own hair through cancer treatment or other conditions. It also funds childhood cancer research searching to find kinder and more effective treatments.
It was the third fundraising event hosted by the students as part of their campaign. The campaign started with a cake sale and awareness event hosted at Moreton Morrell College.
Staff and students from across the college attended the event which raised £300, with cakes donated by staff at the college and representatives from Guide Dogs attending to give live demonstrations of the dogs in action.
The group received donations from Morrisons, Tesco and Asda for the event, with dog biscuits for human consumption proving the most popular product on offer at the cake sale.
Students followed up the bake sales with a major two-day fundraising event as part of the popular Lambing and Animals Weekend at Moreton Morrell College in April.
They raised £1,400 over the two-days. Activities included a raffle featuring incredible prizes, guess the guide dog puppy name with the winning names being Pearl and Oscar and ‘the lolly game’ which was made for by the carpentry department here at Moreton Morrell College.
Throughout the weekend attendees had the chance to meet guide dogs Sky, Sarah and Quaver, as well as Pippa the mascot.
Aimee Mckinlay, 18 from Saffron Walden, is in the first year of Canine Therapy and Rehabilitation BSc (Hons). She is one of the seven university students which have been delivering the programme of fundraising events.
Aimee said: “We’re proud of how much we have raised so far and all the events which we have been able to put on.
“We are encouraged as part of our course to support local charities, so with the Guide Dogs for the Blind located locally we decided it would be a great opportunity to support them.
“There has been a lot of hours spent in the library planning the events and getting everything in place! We would like to thank everyone who has been involve for their hard work and efforts in the fundraising events, as none of this would have been possible without them sacrificing many hours to help with planning and running the events.”
The group is now organising a series of non-uniform days in schools for the end of the academic year to raise further funds.
To support the student fundraising for The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association visit https://gofund.me/009857c9
Warwickshire College & University Centre (WCUC) is the higher education of arm of WCG (Warwickshire College Group). For more information on courses at Moreton Morrell College and WCUC visit www.wcuc.ac.uk
Pictured: From left to right - Paige Franks, Aimee McKinlay, Greta Fogarasi, Jo Brand, Lauren Pollock, Chelsea Harrison, Izzy Franklin, Callum Sheppard and Karys Belfield
