The Sandymoor High School pupils will be travelling to Tanzania next summer on a community service expedition with Camps International.
Jake Cooke, Jonathan Povey, Tom O’Mahoney, George Coulter and Jacob Ahern, all aged 14, will spend four weeks helping to support communities with infrastructure, sustainable living and wildlife management.
The year ten pupils needed to raise £4,000 each to take part in the ‘trip of a lifetime’ and have been fundraising for months.
We've donated £2,100 towards the trip, as part of its Daresbury Community Fund, which shared £10,000 between groups, charities and schools in the area, linked to its latest development Daresbury Garden Village.
“We would like to say a huge thank you to Redrow for this donation towards our trip,” said Tom O’Mahoney. “We are extremely enthusiastic about this experience and are looking forward to challenging ourselves.
“We are also aware that we will see and experience a different culture that could at sometimes be enlightening and we will be pushed out of our comfort zone. Hopefully, we will have a positive impact on a small portion of this incredible country as well as it having a life-changing influence on us.”
Whilst on their trip the friends will also be learning to establish ethical animal deterrents, as well as hiking up Mount Meru in the Kilimanjaro National Park.
"Since accepting this challenge we have been very busy working together to raise funds for the tip,” said Tom.
“We’ve been selling homemade fudge at events, dog sitting, and helping out at a local sports club and providing leaflet drops to local businesses. We also completed a static-cycleathon in the town centre along with monthly carwash mornings.”
Richard O’Mahoney, Tom’s father added: “We are all very proud parents. Not only will this be a trip of a lifetime for the boys and give them a huge opportunity to make a difference, but it also teaches them how to raise funds, organise fundraising events and sharing their fundraising stories with members of the public.”
Anna Evans-Kerr, sales director at Redrow NW said: “Our community fund was set up to offer support to groups within the Daresbury area and we couldn’t be happier to be helping towards this trip of a lifetime. We wish them every success for the challenge ahead.”
The first phase of Daresbury Garden Village has been named Gleaves View, a reference to the grade II listed George Gleaves Bridge, one of several bridges that cross the Bridgewater Canal nearby.
The homes featured in this first phase are all detached and offer a mix of three, four and five-bedroom accommodation.
Visit Daresbury Garden Village development page to find out more.
Donate or follow the group’s Tanzania trip.
