On Friday 13 October Mrs Adams and Mrs Hurley delivered 40 pizzas to the Royal Berkshire Hospital’s children wards.  In May, the Junior School held their charity afternoon and Carrington raised over £700 for the charity Sophie’s Legacy.  Sophie was a young girl who, at the age of 9, was diagnosed with cancer.  She spent much of the rest of her life in hospital until she passed away in September 2021 at the age of 10.  During her time in hospital, Sophie felt that she wanted the following improvements to be made and this will become her legacy:

1. Play specialist 7 days a week in hospitals

2. Improvements to food for children in hospital

3. For parents to be fed when staying with their child

4. For GP’s, nurses and health professionals to be trained in childhood cancer

5. To increase the funds (currently 3%) in childhood cancer research

One of the things that Sophie’s Legacy does is a pizza night at the hospitals where Sophie was treated, and Mrs Adams thought it would be good if Carrington, on behalf of The Abbey Junior School, could sponsor one of these nights at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.  

Working with Sophie’s Legacy and the Royal Berkshire Hospital, we managed to arrange this for 13 October.  The children on the wards had been very excited about it all day and combined it with a movie night too.  Carrington raised enough money to be able to sponsor another one near Christmas too.
Sophie’s legacy continues to work hard to make positive changes for parents and children in hospital and you can find out more about this charity at https://www.sophieslegacy.co.uk/.