Three schools in North London are celebrating after being selected by a Tesco customer to receive a £5,000 Golden Grant at the start of the new academic year.
Customers at Kilburn Express, Kingsbury Circle Express, and Tottenham Hale Village Express were given the chance to take part in a lucky dip to find a golden version of Tesco’s famous blue voting token and use it to award a grant to one of three local schools in the retailer’s Stronger Starts voting round.
Camden School Foundation of Frances Mary Buss, Preston Manor School and Harris Academy Tottenham won a total of £15,000 between them.
Michaela Marshall, Deputy Headteacher at Harris Academy Tottenham, said: “We are so grateful to Tesco and their customers for choosing us to receive this generous grant. It will support us to develop our community hub to enable us to support our families and wider community to access free essentials such as school uniform, food and toiletries. This will make a huge difference to our school community, and we can’t wait to start this vital project!”.
Store manager at Kilburn Express, Sarankan Sivaganasundaram, said, “We are delighted to see Camden School Foundation of Frances Mary Buss and the other schools in the area awarded £5,000 through our Stronger Starts Golden Grants draw. The event was a great opportunity for our customers to learn more about the three local schools in the Stronger Starts voting round and we hope to see the two remaining schools increase their vote between now and the end of voting. Thank you to all our customers who took part in the draw and congratulations to Camden School Foundation of Frances Mary Buss for winning this one off £5,000 grant from our voting pool.”
Sara Lannaman-Williams, Library Manager at Preston Manor School, said: “Preston Manor School is deeply appreciative of the generous grant awarded by Tesco and their customers. This grant will enable the school library to further strengthen the support it provides, ensuring students have the best possible start to their learning journey”
107 Tesco stores, specially selected for their work helping their local community, took part in the Golden Grants event on Saturday September 6, with over £500,000 in total being awarded to local schools.
Claire De Silva, Head of Communities at Tesco said: “We are incredibly proud to award Golden Grants to over one hundred schools, supporting the vital work they do for our children and communities. Since we launched our grants programme in 2016, more than £120 million has been given to more than 67,000 local schools and community groups.”
