172 - Fundraising for St Piers School and College in Lingfield

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Good morning Hannah, So let's find out about Hannah So. Hannah is a community development officer at Saint Pier's School and College based in Linkfield. Saint Piers is also part of the charity Young Epilepsy. They are a specialized school for children and young people living with special educational needs and some also have epilepsy.

Kanna started working for Saint Piers as a support worker in the college, where she worked for eighteen months before moving across to the fundraising team. She worked in the Challenge team for Young Epilepsy for three years. In November twenty twenty five, she moved to the Same Piers School and College fundraising team. Her job now is to raise funds for the school and college and field relationships with the local community.

So we're going to be chatting to Hannah a bit about herself and how she got into this field, but also about fundraising itself. Basically, I think that any charitable organization needs fundraising and hopefully maybe she can share some of her tips with us. So welcome, Hannah. Tell us a little bit about yourself and how you ended up getting into this role and what you do.

Yeah, so I am. Previously before working for Saint Piers and Young Epilepsy, I worked for an airline for twenty years. I am. I worked in corporate in the corporate team until COVID happened, and then, unfortunately, like lots of airlines, lots of redundancies happened and I was made redundant.

So I decided to change my career and I wanted to do something that helped people. So I went to work at Saint Pierre's College as a support worker. I worked with the students, so every student has a one to one support worker, so I worked there. I trained to do a qualification as well, and then became an LSA so as a classroom.

Support to the teacher. I did that for about eighteen months and then a job came up in the fundraising team, so I decided to apply for that and moved over to the fundraising team, which was lovely because you were still on site so you still get to see the students. So it was a really good. Mixture because I was also helping other children as well, the ones with that are living with epilepsy across the UK, and I still got to see the students too, which was lovely.

So I then worked in the challenge team for three years, encouraging people to run marathons take on virtual challenges, which was amazing, and then in November last year, I moved across to fundraise for the school and college. So I'm now a Saint Piers fundraiser. So had you ever done any fundraising or had fundraising experience before? Not really.

When I worked at Virgin, I used to like arranging coffee mornings. I did one for ovarian cancer. I did helping the homeless, so we did collections at Christmas and things like that, but I never had any fundraising, proper fundraising experience prior to this role. So you were cabin crew, did you say, oh, so no, I worked in the offices.

Okay, obviously, so when you worked at Virgin, because you obviously left Virgin and came into a completely different world, completely different field sort of thing. Was there any skills that you were able to transfer over from your Virgin days to what you do now? Yeah, definitely, so customer service, completely different type of customer service, but you definitely need that skill to be able to do this job. And also more so for my new role, is the corporate experience.

So when I worked at Virgin, I used to look after corporates. So that's another transferable skill into fundraising is working with companies locally and nationally to get them to support the charity as well. Brilliant And I think that that's lots of That's always a scary thing for people when they branch off and run their own business, or whether they change career and stuff. It's what skills have I got that I might be able to adapt.

But it just shows that sometimes you don't really know what skills you have until you actually start using them, do you know? One hundred percent? And I also think that although COVID was horrible, being made redundant is horrible. It was probably a good thing for me, because I probably would have stayed in the same job forever if that hadn't happened.

And now I've branched out and I'm helping people. It's making a difference. My job makes a difference, whereas before it was an amazing job. I loved it, but it wasn't making a difference to other people's lives.

And so, now, what does your role actually involve in? Since his school and college fundraising team, so it's a really a fairly new role. It's Before when I was working in the challenge team, it was for a national charity, so that would be dealing with anybody across the country that wanted to take on a challenge for young epilepsy. Now it's kind of like starting a new business, to be honest.

Everything is from scratch, but it's brilliant. So my roule is to try and get out in the community, build relationships with local businesses. Also to work with the parents of the school and college as well, so building relationships with those people. I applied for grants through trust and foundations for things that we need at the school and college.

So for example, we're currently fundraising for a new playground. We're also fundraising for a new multi skills building. For a typical week this week, for example, on Wednesday I was at Sandown doing an expo to meet other businesses, raise the profile Saint Peter's and young epilepsy. Yesterday I was on site working in the office, and then the afternoon I went out with the students to a care home.

The care home we're really kindly put on a coffee afternoon for us and the students went and they played games. So it was building relationships and fundraising at the same time. And then today you're on and today another different day. You mentioned that going out into the community and talking to local businesses.

You're in an area sorry called Tundridge, same as us. There isn't a huge number of large businesses in You've got the racecourse on your doorstep, but they're kind of an exception and it's lots of very small businesses and as we know, you know, times are hard, taxes are pushed on small businesses and there's I'm sure there are other charities that are competing for that same donation money. So what can you do as a charity to stand out and want the local business community to support you.

Yeah, So that's one of the things that I'm really trying to work hard on at the moment, and is obviously we want the businesses to support us, but it's not all just about the funds. We want to raise the profile. So for example, we want businesses that maybe would take one of our students on for work experience for example. So our students love to get out, they need to get into the community and do things like work experience, So building those relationships for or I went to a local pub recently and they had a fair an East affair, so I went there.

So it's a bit of everything. It's about building the relationships and putting ourselves, getting ourselves known in the community. Saint Piers is an amazing place. It's down the end of a lane.

It's called the Hidden Secret, so not many people know about the amazing work that goes on there. I had to tell you the truth until I knew you were coming on the show. I've never heard of some peers before, so tell us a little bit about the school then, So let's worri is it's profile now In the. School, we now have an infant school, so the children can start from age four and it goes all the way up to age twenty five.

So they have four to five in the infant school, and then they have the primary and Secondary school which is five to nineteen, and then they have the school and the College Surrey which is nineteen to twenty five. It's a school, a specialized school for children with special educational needs. And thirty four percent of the students also have epilepsy. So obviously you don't not all the children have epilepsy.

But what sort of other special educational needs would other children have, because there are lots of other schools around that I know, example, Sunny Down School is very specialized for autistic boys. Or another question is it co ed or is it single sex school? It's both so co educational. Yeah, yeah, And so what other than special educational needs would other children have there at the school.

It's a real mixture. So there's autism, ADHD, their children there with really complex needs, children in wheelchairs. Yeah, it's for all different at special educational needs from really. I don't know what.

Sorry, I can't get my ways down all the way from quite high ability to children that really really need support every single day. Okay, so completely Therey, each child is very different. Yes, and each child everything is tailored to their needs. So, for example, in the college, the timetables are tailored to the student's needs and what the students will benefit from.

So in the college they do a lot of life skills, so one day they their timetable is planned and around what they like to do and what's best for them. And I imagine as a sense school you're massively subscribed. Would I be right in that assumption? Yes, yeah, it is.

We have two hundred and four students there at the moment. And I'm sure there's plenty more around that would love to come to Yeah. Yeah. And it's not just students from the local area either.

Students from London come every day. It's residential as well, so we have some students that stay Monday to Friday. We have a couple of term time houses. Now we used to have all year round houses, but we don't have that anymore.

Wow. And when you think to yourself, I suppose, really, so, how do children Because I fortunate, I mean, I'm in the position where my children weren't requiring a special education or need school. But how as a parent do you get onto a waiting list in a school like this. This all comes from the local authorities, So the child would have to have a special educational needs plan and then it would be funded through the local authority.

It is very difficult for parents to get their children into the school and college from the funding perspective, right, Okay, So is that the only source of way or is there an independent way where people could So it's only government funded, it's like almost like going to a state it's going to a state school effectively, it's. Not going to an independent school. H wow. And do you have you said you recently started at age four?

So do you have many children who stay all the way up to the age of twenty five? Do a lot of them do? It's very year on year to be honest, but a few of them have done. When I worked in college, there was a young man there that had been all the way through the school up into college and he was in college for three years.

Oh well, yeah, it's quite nice as well. It must be very rewarding for you to still be able to work in that school and see the progress of the children as they go up as well. Yeah, and it is incredible. I mean, for example, there's a student that started that was nonverbal.

He started in the college, he didn't speak, and he's now he's written a book and illustrated it himself. Oh wow, but he wouldn't he wouldn't intergrate with other people before, and just from going to that college has given him the confidence and the support he's received. Yeah, to be able to write his own book. That's so, that's and that's such a it's giving me goosebumps.

But that's such a lovely sort of feeling for the teachers there and for the other pupils to be able to see that as well. Yeah, I think, I think, well, I know I work there, but it is truly an incredible, amazing place. The skills that the children and the young people learned there they wouldn't be able to get in a mainstream school. The classes are small, so you maybe have about five or six students in each class, and they all have support worker.

Yeah, it's just it's just incredible, brilliant. And you mentioned earlier that part of your fundraising you mentioned a couple of projects, neither of which sounded very cheap. A new playground you mentioned, and I'm thinking that that's tens of thousands. Was it a building you wanted multi skills building, multi skills building.

So now we're talking hundreds of yes. So as a fundraiser, where do you start? Because I'm assuming there's no government money, no government fund. Someone in the school, the head master or whoever it is, has has had this genius idea, or we're going to build a new building, and you're in the fundraising team, I don't know.

Do you hold your head in your hands? And where am I going to get half a million pounds from? What are your thought processes? And then where do you start?

Okay? So, for example the playground. We did have a playground, but it's very old and dated and also part of our land has been sold to orderly homes, so the students can no longer access the wooden playground. So they need a fully accessible playground, not a playground that you would have in a mainstream school.

It needs to be wheelchair friendly, it needs to have the space for children that maybe you don't want to mix, can't mix with the other children. So yeah, so that as one of my jobs is to fundraise for the playground. It's about reaching out for grants. So applying for grants through trust and foundations, we are also going to be doing more fundraising within the school, asking children to the children to get involved with sponsored events, asking parents if they would take on a challenge, for example, they could run Hackney Half this weekend for example, and fundraised that way.

It's going to be trying to liaise with businesses. Yeah, so yeah, it will be a challenge, but it would be one hundred percent worth it when those children get their new playground. Yeah. And do you have a time period in which you'd like to do it or is it just like whenever we can get the funds within the.

Next eighteen months ideally? Oh wow, how much you're looking for right now? One hundred and eighty thousand. I didn't think it was going to be cheap.

No, definitely not. And as a fundraiser, when you approach businesses and other people to do challenges and things like that this time at the moment, we're in a difficult economic time of LIFs. People worry about their own positions, their own jobs, how much they Everyone would love to be able to give to charity, but obviously someone needs to eat and someone needs to pay their mortgages as well. So how do you overcome those challenges as a fundraiser.

Okay, so everyone sees fundraising as I'm going to run the London Marathon, for example, so I need to put set up just giving page and people are going to sponsor me. But as you say, there's a lot of challenges now people don't have disposed to income like they may have had previously, so it's not that simple anymore. So we would suggest is okay, do a bake sale at your work, for example. It can be really cheap.

People can put in a pound here and there if they want to, so we would suggest bake sales. Another thing that I think is quite a nice way of fundraising is to do a fifty to fifty board. So you have a board and you sell each square for a certain amount of money, which always encourages people because they could win at the end of. It as well.

So you buy your two for example, sell square for two pounds, You sell your two pounds squares and then the winner gets fifty pounds and you're fundraising gets fifty pounds. So yeah, it's really thinking outside the box now to try and raise funds. And otherwise we ask people if they've raised money, to approach their business that they work for for match funding. We have penny schemes, so some companies round up their wages and then it goes into comes back to the charity.

Another thing we do now is we work with easy fundraising, which is a really great way for people. It doesn't cost. It doesn't cost so for example, you wish to shop on Amazon, you just click through the link. It doesn't cost you anything, but you're still raising money for the charity.

Yeah. And also it's so, I mean, there are lots of ideas out there, like you say, the easy fundraising, the bait cell and things like that, and so how do you So I suppose really that's where you've got your parents and stuff, and you get them to say, like, if you're going to shop for Amazon, can you do it via easy funding, so that then you can do it that way, I suppose, yeah. Yeah, So and then that way the parents feel like they contributing to the charity, but without actually costing them many money because they'd go to Amazon anyway.

Exactly. So it's not we're not asking people to directly give because not everybody can. No, and we understand that it's a difficult time at the moment. Yeah, it's just.

Yeah, or even just raising the profile. That's another way to really help. If people, you know, if they go to their local pub, for example, and say you've got a quiz evening internet for like coming up, would you support our charity things like that, And I suppose that's just as important with fundraising is raising the profile of the school as well. Yes, definitely, And that's one of the things that we really want to do at the moment is showcase how am I in our school and college is.

So we are inviting people from the community or anywhere to come and visit and have a tour and come and see exactly what we are and what we do. And every person that I've invited in and has seen have left absolutely amazed at what happens and how amazing the school and college is. Go and find that hidden secret. Yes, as you said, definitely go down that line to that hidden secret.

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I was just about to say, I'm not sure if I actually said where it actually was. I think I did right at the beginning. But it's in Linfield, So if you're not sure. Very near the Lingfield Racecross.

Yeah. So if you if you're not local to the Andrew Jerry, you might think we're on earth is Lingfield. So Linfield is a little village in Surrey, so Surrey, Sex. Are you on the flight path?

Yes, yes, you'll fly over it on the. As you fly up got we Careport, you can look down and you might see it. Yeah. So as a fundraiser, you must have quite a few events coming.

Up, Yes we do. So what events have you got coming up about those? I'm really excited that on the twenty first of June we have Happy Circus coming to Lingfield. We are collaborating with Dorman's Land Primary School to put on this event and it's a completely sem friendly circus.

It's going to be it's Father's Day. So it's a great way if you're looking for something to do with your dad on Father's Day this year, come to Happy Circus. The tickets are fifteen pounds per person. But if you listening today and you want to book, if you use the code Discount ten, you will get ten percent discount off your tickets.

Oh brilliant. Yeah, So Happy Circus are coming to town with the big Top. There's going to be local storeholders there as well, and Linfield Racecourse have kindly gifted us the land for the day to be able to put on this production. And if you want to get tickets, how do you get tickets for that?

So if you go onto our website www dot some piers dot com then and click there's a page Happy Circus. If you click on there, you'll be able to buy the tickets from there. Fantastic, brilliant And what other events have you got coming up? Then?

Okay, and then the next really exciting event is our flagship event, which is our Star Run Color run on our beautiful campus in Linfield. It's been running for the past six years. Originally it was a ten k run around the campus, but as the years have gone on, we've tried to make it more exciting and more friendly, family friendly. Sorry, so this year and last year was our first year of doing this.

Actually this year we're having a color run, which is really fun. So it's actually going to be a five k run this year. Everyone can take part. It's wheelchair friendly, it's suitable for buggies, it's little ones, it's completely family friendly and you turn up, do your five k run, get covered in color.

There will be food vendors there, there will be storeholders there, so we're going to make it into a proper family fate, fun kind of day this year. And again you can buy tickets from the Peers website for this event. Brilliant, fantastic. I love those two so I will remind you of those at the end as well, just in case you miss them.

So you've been obviously done various events. Is there one that stands out has been a very successful or fun day for St Piers that's been well done? Yeah, definitely. So every year on the twenty sixth of March, we celebrate Purple Day, which is the National Day of Epilepsy Awareness.

So every book all over the country, people will celebrate Purple Day and raise funds and awareness for epilepsy charities. Saint Piers like to get involved in this as well, so they we make it a whole month. So although the Purple Day is the twenty sixth of March, across the month of March we run various events and the students also like to really get involved. So this the students took part in our virtual challenge which is twenty six miles in twenty six days.

Wow. So every day the students went out and did a mile a day around our campus, which is lovely because on our campus we actually have a mile route. Oh wow, that's going to get a mile walk. So every day the students went out they did their mile.

It didn't matter how they were feeling, they. All did it. They were all so excited to get out there and do it and their parents and family and friends sponsored them as well, which was great. And this was also a national so Young Epilepsy also did this challenge as well, so it was a virtual challenge for anyone in the country to take part in, which was really successful.

Across the month, we did various things with local businesses, so we were really lucky that the Gurkha in Felbridge hosted a charity night for us which was amazing. It was a three course meal. The food is absolutely incredible. It was twenty five pounds ahead and the restaurant gave ten pounds per person back to Saint Pierre's.

So along with the raffle that we held that night, that raised seven hundred pounds. Well, we had a Purple Day quiz at the Pebble Day Quizness Pepperdey Bingo at the Railway Pub in East Grintstead. And another thing that we did was we went to the students went to a care home Charter's Court. The residents had a raffle and the students and a coffee morning and the students went to sing to them, which was absolutely incredible.

They sang us various songs but the best one was Purple Rain and they all had their purple hats on and the residents they loved it. And which has been really nice because now we've been able to build a relationship with the care home, so the students are going to go and spend more time with them, just like they've got an event coming up soon, so the students are going to go down to their open week and go to their barbecue. So yeah, Purple Day was absolutely amazing. And then on site, I think this was the best day was we had a bake sale.

In the reception, the school students did their last mile and they came through what we call our nevill center with donkeys. So we had two donkeys, all purple and all these students walk through the offices and out the other side. So that was absolutely incredible to see. And it was just such a good vibe.

Everybody was purple, everyone got involve buying cakes, we had raffles. It was Yeah, it was a really good vibe. And then yesterday, it's much later than Purple Day, but another care home kindly put on a coffee afternoon for us for Purple Day when the students went and they played games with the residents had guess how many sweets are in the jar, which was yeah, another really lovely afternoon. You know how much did that one raised you?

How much did your purple events raise you? Open just for some piers about six thousand pounds, Wow, that's brilliant, but for the national charity over two hundred thousand. Wow. Yeah.

Yeah, it's a really really amazing day and it's just so lovely to see the students' faces and watch them get involved in it. And it's nice that the like the twenty six miles and mile a day thing. A milea day is not that much, no, and it's like small bits that everyone can do. Really.

Yeah, so that's what we want. We want something that's inclusive. A mile of day isn't too much. It's over the twenty six days.

Anyone can do it. If you're in a wheelchair, if you maybe can't get out today, it doesn't matter. You can do it another day. If you can't do it in the twenty six days, that's fine, you can carry it over.

It's just about taking part, feeling included. You could swim, you could jog, you can run, you can it's literally do your challenge your way, which I think is a lovely thing about it. They've done their marathon so exactly exactly. Yeah.

So yeah. We also have a young lad called Zak that fund raised in twenty twenty four for the charity, and the students absolutely love Zack. So in twenty twenty four, Zach has epilepsy himself. Oh I know Zach, yeah do you?

Yeah, So he's amazing. So in twenty twenty four, he ran for every single student of Saint Piers and the students love to see Zach. He's going to come to our star run. And he's also taken on another challenge this year, so that's amazing.

He's Cycle challenge. Yes, yes, I know. I know Zach's parents, so yeah, so I know Zach. Yeah, he's love.

Yeah, he's very good. And I think that those sort of examples show you that people with special needs and stuff they can still help each other. And they're real inspirations to everybody, aren't they Not just to other people with special needs, but to inspiration to everybody one hundred percent. You know, if you're having a bad day and you go to the school or the college and you see those children and you see their faces, that that's just amazing.

You think like, oh, you know, for me, for example, I'm a bit tired and I wouldn't be bothered to do a mile today, you know, And then you see them and then they're out there and they're doing it and they're happy and they're smiling, and that makes you think, well, yeah, definitely, anyone can do this. They just they're an inspiration and yeah, they're so resilient. The students at the school and the college. I think I'd recommend anyone come down and see them and see the work that we do there.

So if someone wanted to down, how can they arrange to come down? What's the best way of doing that. With you to email in or to phone Saint Piers and just ask for me. So if you phoned it would probably come up at Saint Pierre's or Young Epilepsy Reception and ask for me, and I can arrange for someone to come and have a tour.

And if you don't know, that's Hannaho. They know who I am. If you say you want to come for a tour, there's only one Hanna who can tell you abound brilliant. So you said at the beginning that the project that you're doing starting in November twenty five is almost like starting a new business.

What do you mean when you say that? So I didn't really think about it like this until I went to a networking meeting and there was a gentleman there talking about how he started up his candle business from his from his front room, and he was talking about how hard it was, but how much it's grown and now he's got this amazing business, and I was thinking, this is like what we're doing now. So we have the national charity that's completely up running and amazing since Piers, we have the school and college, but we haven't really had the fundraising element of it previously.

So this is it is like starting a new business. It's building the relationships, as I said, getting things off the ground, getting everything that we need. So you know, we need collateral to take our website. We need we're building a website, so we have a website, but we're building on that at the moment, getting people to know about us and know what we do.

Building, as I said, the challenge program. So currently we don't have. What we do. We're building it now.

But we didn't have a challenge program so we didn't really have events that we could offer out like third party challenges. For example, we work quite closely with Run for Charity, so people can buy places in Hackney Half Paris Marathon, Manchester Marathon. Well I love inflatable challenges things like that, So that's all building, getting it out there, people knowing that, oh I could take on a challenge and raise funds for Saint Piers. Yeah, so it is everything's starting from scratch, but it's amazing as well, and getting out there and meeting new people and raising the vital funds that we need for the school and college to keep it keep it going, because obviously the government fund the students, but for the extra things, like we said, like the playground, the multi skills building, all things that are vital for the students, we need those extra funds to be able to do that.

And you're just saying the marathon. There we Matthew and I went to see our niece run them London Marathon. Our Sunday was, wasn't it. She ran on Sunday, Yes, ran it on Sunday and our boys came as well.

And it's a real I mean, if nobody's ever been to watch the London Marathon or any marathon run, I'd suggest you go and do it because it's such a heartwarming event everything. Wow, it really is. So if people wanted to like do challenges like that to like because you said, like you buy places or things like that for the for Marathon Paris Marathon, how do people do that? Then?

Okay, so for a London Marathon for example, that's that's slightly different. Any young epilepsy have places and it is so sought after. Imagine we tend to get very many places. So that is actually on an application process.

So if anyone wanted to run London Marathon for Young Epilepsy, they would need to fill in an application. But you can register your interest at the moment right if you go onto the Young Epilepsy website. I think most of the big charities weren't like that. Our niece was running for Parkinson's and they have X number of places.

Yeah, we're waiting the side of the road hoping to see her as she comes through, and there's so many runners you're hoping. But I saw quite a few people coming through with the same T shirt on for Parkinson So I know that you have to apply for a place and say why you should get the place and how much you expect to fund raise and all that sort of thing. So yeah, yeah, I suppose that's London one. But what about like the ones.

Said for Paris Marathon, Manchester Marathon, or the inflatable challenges. You can go on to our website and they're all listed on there and you literally can buy a place that way, or if you wanted to find out any more information, you can email in to email and I will reply to you and give you more information obviously, and then once you're signed up to these challenges, it's not just you're. Not just left. It's real building the relationship with the person run.

And so for example, if you decided you wanted to run Paris Marathon, for example, once you've signed up, I would contact you and then I would support you through the whole process. It wouldn't be like you've signed up thanks a lot by money, off you go. It would be a complete you know, I would send you training tips, listen to you like why why have you chosen to run for our charity? I think that is really important to understand why people have chosen and to support them.

And it's not just about the fundraising. It's about as well if there's something else that you need from us, from the charity, like we I can direct you in places to find support, you'd get free T shirt to run, You'd have full support on your fundraising. So, like we were saying earlier, it's not just about setting up a fundraising page, So it would be support and getting events and things up and running for you. If you're local, then I would come to some of your events if you wanted me to.

Yeah, so it's it's not just the straightforward so signing up and that's the end of it. You know. But that's nice though, because for people who do want to, I mean, you'll never get me run in America. I'm not doing that much.

Not what you said last Sunday. I forget that when you're there. When you're there, I got by the time it got to Monday, and I was like forgetting my feet killing me just from standing up watching her. When you're there there, you're watching the people run past, and you're like, this is amazing.

I could do that. And then you go home and have the realization. I remember the first year I went, I watched the marathon. I was like, well, maybe I could walk it, Maybe I could do that, And then you go back.

I've got such admiration for the people that have done it. But this is a teacher in the school. She's a pe teacher, so she's relatively fit. She suffered.

It was quite hot, Yeah, and she went to school the next day and she was walking barefoot school. All the pupil's so excited to see the middle and everything else. Yeah, you have that, but yeah, it's tough. Yeah, okay, Yeah.

She's not an elite athlete. She wasn't running it in three hours or anything, and she's a normal person. Yeah, it's such a tough thing to do. So, you know, all credit to any run, to anyone that can do.

Yeah, I don't know how. I can't run me neither. I feel like I always laugh and joke and so I'm a bit of hypocrite really because I encourage people to sign up to these marathons and then I can't actually do it myself. I've tried to run on the treadmill.

It's not working. It's not the same though, is it. No, No, but when you're there, you do get carried away in the moment. Yeah.

Yeah. It is amazing to watch. And although one of our supporters who ran for Saint Peter's recently he ran London Landmarks one weekend, the next weekend he ran Manchester Marathon, and last weekend he did because he didn't get a London Marathon place, he did the Verse Marathon. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah the way nice Yeah yeah, So he did three weekends of marathons in a row.

I did say to him, I think you need a break. This weekend. Yeah, thank god, feet up and hopefully it might be nice whether you can have a rest, Yeah, definitely, Yeah, that would be a killer. Brilliant right.

So I think finally if we just share again the details on how of Saint Piers's information and then I'll share again your event reins. So for anybody who wants to book any of the events or get a tour or anything like that, what's the way best way of getting hold of you? Then? So I'm just gonna you can go onto our website which is www dot Saint Piers.

Piers do or dot uk and that's Saint Piers ist s t P I E r s dot org dot UK. Yeah, brilliant, or you can email me of which my email is h Welton at Young Epilepsy. And that's well with one l Yeah lt. N at Young Epilepsy dot org dot UK.

Brilliant. I'm on your website now and I can see I'm looking at the Lingfield Circus event on the twenty. Twenty first, twenty first of June. June.

I've seeing that, and then there's all the other stuff is on there too. So just a reminder there is the Happy Circus event on the twenty first of June. And that's a send friendly search. Send friendly circus.

And if you are listening today and you want to book, if you use code Discount ten, you'll received ten percent discount off your tickets. Brilliant. And also then you've got your color run five k on the fourth of July American Independence Day and lots. Of white and blue paint, I think.

Yeah, and you can book tickets for that as well on the website. Yes, fantastic. And if you are somebody who wants to get involved in fundraising, or if you're a business that you think you might be able to provide work experience or any support that you might be able to provide to the pupils or to the school itself, then do get in touch with Hannah and let her know and she can talk to you about how you can help the pupils and help the school. Yeah, definitely, anyone that wants to come along have a tour or is interested in supporting Saint Pierre's, we'd love to speak to you.

Brilliant, fantastic. So I do believe that that has come to the end of our chat. Thank you very much, Hannah. Hope that you've found out a little bit more about Saint Piers and if you are a parent with a child with special educational needs, maybe this is somewhere that you might want to consider.

Then I'm sure that you can contact them about getting onto their waiting list as well, and if you want to just support and fundraise them then please do get in contact. As we've said so, I'll repeat their website again and that is Saint peerspi Ears dot org dot UK. And if you've missed me saying that, if you're listening to this on podcast, it is in the podcast notes below where you can get any further information as well. So if you're listening live, thank you for listening life.

If you're not listening live, then I'm assuming you're listening on podcast and you're able to get this and all our podcasts from your Business Hour wherever you get your podcasts from. You can find us your Business Hour on Instagram and on Facebook, and that is your dot Business Hour on both of those social media channels. That's it from us this week. Thank you very much again, Thank you again for Hannah, thank you for having me.

You're very welcome, and thank you for sharing the amazing stuff that Saint Piers does, and for also telling us about it, because I think, like you say, it's a hidden secret. It definitely is a hidden secret down the end of the lane. Hopefully won't be a hidden as much anymore. No, but we can all find out a little bit more about so fantastic, brilliant.

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