St Joseph's Building Fund

The Background
St Joseph’s Building Fund is dedicated to raising money towards the replacement of the classrooms which currently house our Key Stage 2 pupils. Originally intended as temporary structures, these units have now been in place for 20 years, and their replacement will provide a new, permanent, state of the art building, integrated with the rest of the school.

The £100,000 Challenge
Initial estimates based on provisional architects’ plans indicate that the cost of our new build will be somewhere in the region of £1million. As a Catholic Voluntary Aided School, St Joseph’s needs to raise the first 10% of the overall building cost. The remaining £900,000 will be funded by central and local government, through the Archdiocese of Birmingham.

The Building Fund Committee has set a target of 5 years to raise the £100,000 target running from September 2006 to September 2011. Thanks to the efforts of the building Fund Team and the fantastic support of the school and parish community, we have already raised almost half of that amount.

For details of how you can contribute to the Fund, please contact a member of the Building Fund Team or the school office. Look out for information about our fundraising events in the School and Building Fund Newsletters.

See the latest Building Fund Newsletter here.

 

St Joseph's Building Fund

Building Fund Update It’s been a while since I posted an update on fund-raising, so below is a chart showing our progress up to May. The fund to May stands at a fantastic £46,607 – almost half-way to our target. The last six months alone have brought in nearly £13,000. Thanks to everyone for their fantastic support. We’ll be [...]

Ferret Racing: Friday 27th March Just a reminder that our Ferret Racing evening takes place this Friday, 27th March. The evening will take place in the school hall in Thame, commencing at 7.30pm. Tickets are £10, and include the price of a fish and chip supper. If you need a ticket then drop us an e-mail: stjosephsfund@googlemail.com The last time we ran [...]

Booker Tate: Local business makes donation Thanks very much to Booker Tate for their recent generous donation to St Joseph’s Thame Building Fund. The business is “a global leader in the provision of investment, management and development services to the world of sugar, ethanol, bio-energy and other agribusiness projects”. They are based in Church Road in Thame, and it’s great to have support [...]

Waitrose Thame Community Matters I blogged a few weeks ago about the Waitrose Community Matters scheme, which is now running in the Thame store. I’m very pleased to say that, thanks to everyone’s support (and their green tokens), Waitrose has made a donation of £320 to St Joseph’s Building Fund. Thanks to Waitrose in Thame for selecting us to be one [...]

Upcoming dates for your diary Originally uploaded by kennysarmy Friday March 27th: Ferret Racing Place your bets on the feistiest ferret! A very popular evening when we’ve run this in the past (the last event raised £2000). Includes a tote betting service, fish and chip supper (and a bar!) Saturday 18th April:  Easter Fun Day A fun day out for all the family, including [...]

2008 Fundraising Update 2008 was an excellent year for St Joseph’s Building Fund. Thanks so much to everyone who has shown the support—whether through the direct debit scheme, attending our events, sponsoring us, or through the Easyfundraising service. The Building Fund total to the end of December now stands at an incredible £41,196. During 2008 we raised a total of £22,393, [...]

Waitrose Community Matters I blogged a few weeks ago about the Waitrose Community Matters scheme.  I’m very pleased to say that St Joseph’s Building Fund has ben chosen this month as one of the beneficiaries. As you may remember, each month the Thame Waitrose chooses three local causes to support. Each time you shop you get a small green [...]

There’s something about a tombola… Originally uploaded by a shadow of my future self Yesterday was St Joseph’s Thame annual Christmas Fete, and the Friends of St Joseph’s were kind enough to give the Building Fund space for a stall. We decided to run a tombola, and at one point were nearly overrun with customers. Partly this was due to the high [...]

Government releases funds for Primary school rebuilding The Government has announced that £1.75bn of funding has been approved building funds for hundreds of Primary schools in England. This is part of the Primary Capital Programme which is investing to rebuild or refurbish half of Primary schools by 2023. Originally uploaded by JF Sebastian  In total 41 local authorities have met all the Government’s requirements and [...]

Christmas shopping made easy (and raise free funds while you’re at it) Christmas Shopping Originally uploaded by andreasnilsson1976 It’s been a while since I blogged about Easyfundraising, so here’s a quick reminder about this great service. Easyfundraising carries links to all the major online retailers (Amazon, eBay, Tesco, Argos to name but a few). If you want to make a purchase online, then remember to go to Easyfundraising first, then [...]