On the 20^th April 2021, Tom, Ollie, Jake, Katiya and Hugo ran a social enterprise event with the aim of raising money and awareness for the mental health charity - YoungMinds.

YoungMinds is a charity which really resonated with them as the Covid-19 lockdown had affected many teens social and mental health. The idea for the event was a basketball throwing competition where people were given the opportunity to have 30 seconds to score as many hoops as possible for prizes if they came in the top 3. The prize for the top spot was a set of LED lights, and the prize for second and third place was a box of sweets each. The top scorer for the event was Ollie from Old House who managed to score 6. In joint 2^nd were Ollie (Old House) and Sandy (Blackford House). The pupils are delighted to have raised some funds and awareness for the charity.

Written by the BTEC Enterprise pupils with their teacher Ms Heidi Bell-West.

The photographs show:

The top 3 competitors (from left to right):
Sandy - 2^nd place winning a tub of sweets - scored 5
Ollie - 1^st place winning LED lights - scored 6
Ollie - 2^nd place winning a tub of sweets - scored 5

Competitors shooting from a certain distance to see how many hoops they can get in 30 seconds.

Katiya and volunteer Dani helped to sell drinks and hand out raffle tickets to people arriving at the event.