BPET has eight schools across London and the South East, bringing good and outstanding education to children from a wide range of backgrounds and circumstances, ranging from some of the most affluent, to some of the most deprived, in England.

However, did you know that within our BPET family of eight schools, 22% of children qualify for Pupil Premium*? That means that at least 510 children across our Trust are classified as disadvantaged and we know that many of them and their families are living in relative poverty**.

Therefore, BPET has created a “Community Fund” project which will looks to raise funds from across our school, supplier and partner communities to help offer support to our families most in need.

EDIT 9/12/2020: As we have to procure and deliver the hampers before the e4nd of term, we have reduced our ambition to ONE HAMPER PER PUPIL PREMIUM FAMILY - which is 406 families! Based on how much raised so far we have reduced our target and the content of the hamper to ensure EVERY FAMILY receives a staples hamper!***

We hope that families from across all of our schools who have secure incomes and due to the COVID pandemic may find that they have more funds available as, for example, they are currently unable to go holiday, eat out, take trips to theme parks, the theatre or cinema, will be able to contribute to our community fund with either a one-off donation or a regular donation.

To launch the Community Fund, we are working with our Catering Partner ‘Caterlink” to provide each of our pupil premium families with a Christmas Hamper, which will include Fruit and Vegetable staples as a Christmas Treats.

Each amended Hamper costs £12.50 to create***.

In the long term, we hope this may include buying essential clothing items, contributing to school uniform, providing IT connectivity for Home Learning (be it a device or ongoing access to the internet) or helping with the cost of transport to get to school, the ability for pupils to attend holiday clubs and go on trips.