One of the remarkable things that we nurture at JAGS is a generosity of spirit that crosses all boundaries of age, gender and background. Girls and staff work together to have fun and to raise awareness of people in need, at home and abroad. Whole school fund-raising brings out the best in our JAGS community with a sense of real excitement cascading from the sixth-form organisers to the youngest contributors. A recent, inventive fund-raiser was a Fashion Show, which made over £1200 for our residential Romania Project and the multicultural evening in January 2011, a vivid celebration of our hugely diverse school community, raised £1700 for local charity Whitgift SNAP and Make A Wish UK. As a whole school, 4-18, we support the national Jeans for Genes campaign, paying £1 each for the privilege of wearing jeans to school, and buy poppies for Remembrance Day. The senior school takes part in the annual sponsored fund-raising for Water Aid.

Much of the enthusiastic activity that goes on in Houses is fund-raising for charity. Everyone votes to support a particular charity and each form is given a week in which to champion its cause. In 2011/12 Bettany is supporting Nayuki Children’s Home, Clarke chose Crisis, Desenfans chose the Laura Crane Trust and Holst chose Great Ormond Street.