Wellington & Eagle House | GSL Innovation Challenge 2020

A SUMMER OF SERVICE
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Launching on 24/04/2020

Wellington & Eagle House | GSL Innovation Challenge 2020 | A summer of service

The impact of Covid-19 on our daily lives, is unprecedented, and while we need to stay home, and stay safe, we want to enable our community to be of service, to society, and identify the ways we can make a real difference, and celebrate those within our community who are taking action.

  • For students, click here to register and be the first to hear about opportunities, receive a weekly bulletin
  • For our parents, alumni and staff, click here to register to receive our weekly bulletin and hear how you can support

The Wellington Leadership and Coaching Institute and Future Foundations are proud to share, that we will be providing the Wellington community (Wellington College and Eagle House) with support to enable you to either start or take your existing service projects to the next level.

Before, we talk about what you can do…lets take a moment to reflect on the amazing people and projects that have organically been created by the Wellington community already and by individuals within communities, who have inspired our nation.

Veteran Tom Moore, 99, raises more than £29 million for NHS by walking laps in his garden

Inspiration from our Wellington College & Eagle House community

Wellington community creates Scrubs for NHS workers

The Wellington community have created scrubs for NHS workers. They have helped Scrubs Glorous Scrubs by sourcing fabrics and put their sewing hobby to good use. They wanted to do more, so they also posted leaflets through local doors to get their neighbours involved and to increase the number they could produce.

The scrubs have been sewn and donated to Frimley Park Hospital doctors and nurses, including hats made from patterns including race cars and hearts! This project has had an incredible Wellington community involved including Evie Campbell, Nancy Lindo, Mel Dickin, Annie Tutus and Antonia Gathy and many others.

Baking and donating water bottles to NHS workers 
  • Students have collaborated with the Wellington College shop to donate over 400 school ‘wide neck’ water bottles donated to NHS workers at Frimley Park hospital and Basingstoke Hospital
  • Eagle House students have baked for NHS workers

Find out more by listening to this great Eagle House Podcast

Making visors for Frimley Park hospital and local care homes
  • Eagle House’s wonderful DT department has made 300+ visors for local carers and Frimley Park Hospital.
  • Wellington College’s DET department has made 300+ visors Frimley Park Hospital and local care homes with more being made. 

Individuals who inspired the nation

Crystal Stanley, of Ipswich, sets up The Rainbow Facebook Group
Dutch-born Annemarie Plas – Clapping for our Front Line Workers
Postcard to help self-isolating neighbours – inspiration: Becky Wass, from Falmouth, Cornwall

What can you do?

We have 10 actions you can take to make a difference this term 

We are here to help you continue your service projects and/or to help you develop a new idea, to share best practice and showcase the amazing work being done by the Wellington community.  Your projects and ideas can inspire others to take action.

Your first step is to register with us.  We challenge you to then take two to three further actions, and make sure to save the 18th and 19th June in your diaries for our GSL Festival from home (Reading week).

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STUDENT REGISTRATION

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PARENT, ALUMNI & STAFF REGISTRATION

Get Involved

We are delighted to be supporting the ‘Life Beyond Wellington’ programme this term.  We will deliver a number of sessions and will invite speakers from our network.

To be inspired by the Wellington community, to be the first to hear about the opportunities to take part in our innovation challenges and to find out more about how you can take action this summer, register now.

  • Click here to register (students – Eagle House and Wellington College)
  • Click here to register (wider Wellington community including teachers and parents)

Stay Safe

Your health comes first and your families.  We will be asking you to share your plans with us, and to follow at all times, the NHS guidance.  Click here for the latest information.

Click here to register

STUDENT REGISTRATION

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PARENT, ALUMNI & STAFF REGISTRATION

“We know that true leadership starts with you. It starts in all of the communities of which you are a part – from your family, to your neighbourhood, to your school. Whatever our age or position, we can seize the opportunity to become true global social leaders. Stepping up is both a privilege and a duty. Accepting that challenge to make a positive difference in the lives of others and society is what makes us true global social leaders.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you so much for dreaming about a better world and, most importantly, for being brave enough to take action to make that dream a reality. I cannot wait to hear more from you all.”

“Leadership is not a title, it’s a responsibility, and it is a journey. By embarking on a service project, you have decided to join us in a journey and to be a leader within your school and community. For this I thank and commend you. Now more, than ever, we are inter-connected globally, which creates amazing opportunities and real world challenges. It will be hard work, as you are trying to solve real world problems. With mutual support and inspiration I know, we will go far, and will see members of the Wellington community going on to lead change around the world.

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