Community Action / Charities

What a fantastic effort by Year 5 pupil Gurjus Chadha, 9, who has raised more than £1,660 for the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital as part of his Hugh Oldham charity initiative.  Gurjus organised…

MGS held its annual fundraising football match for Macmillan Cancer Support, after two years of cancellations due to the covid-19 pandemic.  Every year, eager football players gather at the school to…

A Sixth Form team from MGS took part in a charity fundraiser softball game against a team from Withington Girls' School to help with UNICEF's Relief Fund for Ukraine. Despite wet and windy conditions…

Year 13 Josh has been cycling his way to fundraising success, having been inspired by seeing a lack of opportunities for children in care. Josh’s parents have been foster carers for Jewish children w…

Year 8 pupil Benjy has been helping Jewish communities by providing entertainment for local nursing homes. During lockdown, he started singing from the gardens just before the Jewish celebration of P…

During Ramadan, brothers Faizan and Farris took part in various charity initiatives. They raised over £1,000 as a family for the Association of Pakistani Physicians and Surgeons of the United Kingdom…

Over the summer, MGS pupil Musa Nazir (now in Year 9), decided to volunteer his free time to help with the Share My Qurbani project, which saw him collect, sort and distribute Qurbani meat to those m…

Year 12 pupil Josh cycled 100km – in under three hours – to raise money for a community school for children with additional needs. He worked so hard to prepare for the ride alongside his dedicated st…

Last week, a group of Year 12 boys encouraged as many members of the School community as possible to leave their cars at home and run/walk/cycle to MGS instead. It was great to see so many people tak…

Last month, Year 9 pupil Daniel Dable lost both of his grandparents due to the Covid crisis in India. So, to raise money for the British Asian Trust’s Oxygen for India Appeal, this weekend, Daniel br…

Rachel Adams, a teacher in the MGS English Department, has cut off 17 inches of her beautiful flowing hair to support children and young people who have lost their hair due to cancer and other condit…

Community-minded pupils from MGS have set up an initiative to help homeless people within the Greater Manchester community. Year 12 pupils Babrus Qadir, Umar Din, Wajahat Khan and Ahmed Hayat have se…