“The combined efforts of Croydon Commitment, working together with South London YMCA have had a profoundly positive effect in the local community”

Toni Letts OBE,
Chief Executive of South London YMCA

Last year the Schools 100 Challenge saw 7 schools competing with one another to raise money over a 6 week period and whoever raised the most, won the money! Edenham High School won the competition and donated all the prize money - £4800 to Croydon Cold Weather Shelter and the Rupert Bear Ward at MayDay Hospital. This year we’ve changed the rules so that interested schools nominate their teams and Mansell Construction will provide one mentor per team from October all the way through until the competition closes in December! The prize money will be equally divided between the winning team and Croydon Commitment Grass Roots Trust, a fund set up to help local people in Croydon.

The Schools 100 Challenge starts at the beginning of October, when schools are asked to choose the best team to represent them in the competition and Mansell Construction will provide a mentor to help the students with their ideas. Students taking part must be between 14 and 18 years of age, and they have 6 weeks to raise as much cash as they can ! Mansell Construction will help with ideas, guidance, make suggestions and ensure you keep within the rules and the winners will be announced just before the Christmas holiday.

Download the form HERE and distribute to your students and then choose the best idea from those entries you receive. Enter your team by 30th September and send to Croydon Commitment and we will organise your mentor ! Any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at croydoncommitment-mm@mottmac.com.

Once again, based on the BBC TV programme "The Dragons' Den", Croydon Commitment created its own panel of Dragons from the commercial and business sectors in Croydon. We invited social and business entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas to a panel of business extraordinaires in November this year at the Warehouse Theatre. They were competing for the unique opportunity to be coached by them for up to a year beginning in January 2009 to help ignite the spark to start that community fire!

Business Champions

Can you be a Business Champion in schools?
We need business people to help Croydon Education Business Partnership deliver the Key Employability Skills in schools and colleges to all students.
The project requires one hour of time when you will speak to students about your chosen area of expertise. All sectors, skills and professions are needed from banking, to construction to sales and marketing.Phone Croydon Commitment on 020 8774 3680 for further information; alternatively email the team on croydoncommitment-mm@mottmac.com for further information.

Croydon Commitment is a registered Charity. Registration number: 1122878.