Success stories

Dunsfold New Playground
December 2007

Dunsfold’s fabulous new playground for the children has been installed!

The Mayor of Guildford, Cllr. Mike Nevins, and The Mayor of Waverley, Cllr. Maurice Byham officially opened the playground on Thursday, 13th December 2007. Representatives from The Guildford Lions, Champney’s Charitable Foundation, Surrey Community Foundation were present, as well as Eagle 96.4 FM, and a number of other kind benefactors of the school.

Sound clips of the launch
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Southern Counties Radio interview Jan '08 - mp3 (size 1.7 Mb)
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Interview audio provided courtesy of BBC Southern Counties Radio.
Audio clips provided courtesy of 96.4 Eagle Radio.

Guildford Lions Present New Play Equipment to Jigsaw Guildford!

Guildford Lions celebrated their 29th annual Charity Ball and Jigsaw their first ever charity ball in great style at Wotton House, Dorking raising a fabulous £20,000 for Jigsaw!
The money went towards purchasing new outdoor play equipment for the Jigsaw Guildford School, which was presented by Lion President Trevor Perry to Kate Grant, Executive Head and Rachel Turnbull, Chief Fundraiser both from Jigsaw. Eagle Radio’s Peter Gordon also attended the presentation following his great job as auctioneer at the ball. In total we raised £22,000 from the ball – Jigsaw’s biggest fundraising event ever!
Thank you to everyone that supported this event.

AstraZeneca Laptop Presentation

Andrew Harbrow and Nilesh Parmar from AstraZeneca visited the Jigsaw School and kindly presented the students with a fabulous new laptop.
The laptop will be used for a number of the children’s individual programmes in order to help them reach their full potential.

Andrew and Nilesh commented “it was a great joy for us to visit with the laptop and meet you, the team and the kids”.

The Story of Jigsaw

Fundraising campaign in first year (1999-2000). Approached trusts, foundations, ran events in order to fund initial set-up. £100,000 raised through the kind generosity of many people and organisations.

Opened Mytchett site with 6 children in 2001

Mytchett expanded to full capacity -14 children by 2002

Fundraising campaign entitles Jigsaw to a minibus

Opened a second site to accommodate 5 children in Guildford in 2003
(opened by The Countess of Wessex)

Fundraising campaign & application to Variety Club entitles Jigsaw to a Sunshine Coach minibus

Jigsaw continue to help more children and Guildford expands
to full capacity - 13 children by 2004

Executive Head expands management team by employing full-time Development & Fundraising Officer

Local charity help Jigsaw to convert a summer house into a usable music room

2004/5 - Both sites full to capacity, seek new larger premises to develop secondary level education

Mortgage approved and offer accepted on our own premises 'to be' in Bagshot

The Winkle Club Charity and Lloyds TSB Women's Network London and South East Region

BIG THANKS to the Winkle Club Charity and Lloyds TSB Women's Network London and South East Region for raising funds in order to buy Christmas presents for all the children at Jigsaw. Jigsaw Guildford were presented their presents by the Winkle Club's very own Father Christmas at the school on Wednesday 20th December, and the children at Mytchett were presented theirs from Father Christmas during their visit to Badshot Lea Garden Centre on Wednesday 20th too. Thank you so much to the Winkle Club and Lloyds TSB for your generosity.

Interactive whiteboard

We have our interactive whiteboard!! Thanks to the lads who completed the three peaks challenge earlier this year, we have now received and are using our new interactive whiteboard. It is so great to have this piece of equipment. THANK you again to the Jigsaw 3 Peaks team who raised an amazing £3,400 to buy it.

The Winkle Club Charity

The Winkle Club have donated £1,013 so that we can purchase a new PC and software, which will mean that our interactive whiteboard will work efficiently as it is currently linked to a very old donated PC which is slowing things down. Also the new PC will enable us to use the whiteboard to it's best advantage, i.e. use more software, as each child's needs are so different. This is really superb news and thank you to everyone at the Winkle Club for your ongoing support. Your help real makes a huge difference to the children.

2005-06 Fundraising Activities

Fundraising activity over the past few years has provided for essential classroom, curriculum resources and any work needed on existing buildings. Sept 2005-06, Jigsaw was successful in raising over £38,000, through various fundraising initiatives, including:

	Charity Three Peaks Challenge £5,000
	Christmas fundraising (cards, wrap, puds) £8,600
	Sponsored Marathon run £3,500
	Grand Summer Draw £3,700
	Personal Donations & Parent led fundraising £8,000 Other monies raised include one-off donations, Jigsaw webshop, Collecting tins, Flora Light Run, Christmas raffle, and Guildford Lions Club donations.