In October 2016 I'll be traveling (back) to Sierra Leone to support the new group of sixth form students traveling there with the Wells Cathedral School Sierra Leone Project. The Project partners students with the Ballanta Music Academy to teach all different types of instruments, as well as some who teach English and Maths at the JT Reffell French Friendship Memorial School. 

I was one of the students on the project's trip in 2010, when I was seventeen. The impact of working in Freetown was immeasurable. Sierra Leone has seen one of the most brutal civil wars in recent history (which killed up to 300,000 and displaced 2.5m people) as well as an Ebola epidemic which was only declared over on 29 March 2016. It claimed well over 11,000 lives in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea; lives there are continually rebuilding.

I'm raising for the Wells Cathedral School Foundation, the charitable arm of Wells Cathedral School, which runs the project; all your donations will go straight to projects on the ground (such as visiting womens' clinics, teaching primary school pupils, and providing teaching and practical resources at both the primary school and the music academy) as the more money I raise the less will have to be spent from the project funds on air fares and other costs.

To support this I did a concert to raise awareness and funds on the 7th October, but there have been so many amazing donations that I have collected on and offline from people who didn't see the concert, as well as donations that have come directly through other channels- thank you.