This year we’ll be taking part in the 2023 Virtual London Marathon to raise funds for Sierra Leone Grammar School, West Africa’s oldest educational institution - and a place very close to our heart. This year the marathon is again run on a course of our own design following the pandemic, and I’ll be running the 26.2 miles in consecutive legs on one day, as part of our SLGS team.

SLGS not only provided us with the tools to succeed in the world, but continues to support tomorrow’s bright young minds from across Sierra Leone. Though the school has a history of excellence in learning, a decade of civil war has left it in need of repair, renovation and modernisation. We hope to raise funds to complete the construction of the school’s new STEM science labs, part of a wider initiative to make the campus a hub of STEM and computer science.

With other investments including improved internet connectivity, new study spaces, refreshed ICT facilities and an ongoing Covid strategy including remote classrooms, every penny raised will have an impact on the richness of education available to SLGS’s pupils.

We appreciate all your donations. Thanks for your support