Harvest Parcels
 Children from The Hollies Pre-school decorated harvest festival boxes which were filled with items generously given by parents.
The parcels were then delivered to local residents.
Hollies Pre-School Support St. Lawrence Nursery in Uganda
The Hollies Pre-School has supported Afuwa Nangobi and the Maria's Care Nursery in Kamuli since Gerry Hambridge got involved in charity work in Uganda in 2002 after she retired from her position as Supervisor of the Hollies after many years.
 We now want to support Afuwa, previously the Head Teacher of Maria's Care Nursery, as she works hard to build up a new nursery in the village, the St. Lawrence Nursery & Day Care School, offering our support in friendship, guidance and through fund raising, the occasional provision of educational materials.
We have a fundraiser each year. Last year the money we raised was used to buy books for the nursery. Find out much more and see photos of the children playing, reading their new books and their school by clicking here.
New Home for the Hollies Pre-School
We have bought our new building and it will arrive at Lower Park School on Hazelbadge Road in Poynton in the near future. This means that there will be pre-school play group provision AND before and after school care AND holiday play schemes and clubs at Lower Park.
It will accommodate 35 playgroup places (70 half sessions per day) as well as a healthy number of before and after school care places. It will be situated at the end of the school car park on the school field. It is envisaged that it will be up and running once the Statutory six months notice has been given to OFSTED, the new fencing and play areas have been put in place and the services have been connected. This is a real bonus for both the Hollies and Lower Park.
 Bag2School
The latest Bag2School collection took place on 8th October and raised £204. Thanks to everyone who helped.
Unwanted clothes, bedding, curtains, towels, shoes and soft toys were collected for this regular fundraising event.
Find out more details on the fundraising page.
 The Local Police Drop In!
We had a visit on Wednesday 10th September from our local Police Constables - Mandy and Jenny.
The children enjoyed looking around and sititng in the car.
Lollipop Lady visits The Hollies
On Monday 6th October this special road safety visitor came to meet the children.
Christmas Panto - Cinderella
This year we'll be going to Buxton Opera House to see the matinee performance (2.30pm) of Cinderella on Saturday 20th December. Tickets are priced at £14.50 for adults and £8.25 for children. The cost of the coach is £5.40 per person.
Hollies Summer Ball
The Summer ball took place on Friday 25th July at Bramhall golf club and was a great success. We'd like to thank the following companies and people who kindly supported our event which raised more than £4,000 for the Hollies relocation fund.
Alderley Asset Management
Bramhall Golf Club
Mottram Hall Hotel
Trisha Penrose/Mark Simpkin (Heartbeat)
The Band - Ransom (contact details available on request to the Hollies).
The White House (Prestbury)
Manchester City Football club
Beluga (Bramhall)
Personalised prints and gifts (Poynton)
Tesco
John Lewis
Waitrose
Stockley Farm
Lyme Park
Beijing Restaurant
Toots Salon (Poynton)
Stigs (Poynton)
Soap Hairdressing (Stockport)
The attic salon (Bramhall)
The Plaza (Stockport)
Buxton Opera House
Bargain gifts.co.uk
Prestbury Flowers
Simply Books (Bramhall)
Netto
PZ Cussons
Teddy Bears' Picnic - Saturday 12th July - 12pm - 2.30 pm
 The picnic was a great succes. There was lots for children and adults to enjoy such as:
BBQ
An obstacle course
Make a picnic
Bottle tombola
Raffle
Chocolate tombola
Cakes
Bag 2 School - 21st April 2008 (next one on 8th October at 10.30.)
 The Hollies Fundraising Committee asked parents to collect and bag unwanted clothes, bedding, curtains, towels, shoes and soft toys as part of a Bag2School collection. Our total weight was 780kg which equates to £234. This is fantastic and even more than last time.
We'd like to thank everyone for their fantastic support. The last collection was held on the 21st April 2008 and as you can see from the photo it was a great success.
A Chinese Fundraising Banquet
Raising money for The Hollies Pre-School has never tasted so good. Find out how why on our fundraising page.
Firemen Visit - Thursday 15th November 2007
 Towards the end of last year the Poynton Fire Brigade were kind enough to come and visit the Hollies Pre-School with their fire engine and gave the children a chance to sit in the fire engine cab and play with the hose and sirens etc...
This was a good way of introducing the young children to the workings of the fire brigade and familiarising them with the fire brigade staff. We'd like to give a big thank you to the local fire brigade for giving up their time and spending some of it with the children for whom it was an absolute delight to be visited.Members of the fire service paid a visit to the school on 15th November.
Hollies Holly Wreaths - See A Large Example Here
This Christmas the Hollies sold an incredible 80 beautiful hand crafted Holly Wreaths to help raise funds for the Hollies charity. A big thank you to everyone involved in making them and of course those of you who purchased one.
Find out how the appeal to raise funds for our new home, which will be next to Lower Park School, is going on the fundraising page.
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