Eleven year old Evie Browne, a pupil at ​Bridgewater School in Worsley, has spent every Saturday for the last three months learning how to sew and her commitment to mastering this complex skill is now being put to use in the most wonderful way possible.

​Staff, students, Old Millfieldians and parents from Millfield School and the South West School of Dance in Street, Somerset have sewed over 50 sets of personal protective equipment scrubs and protective bags for local key workers battling the coronavirus outbreak on the frontline.

Coronavirus may have put a stop to the 2020 Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race, but that has not stopped Churcher’s College Sixth Former, Luca Phillips Mateo from completing the 200km/125m challenge and raising over £3,000 for NHS Charities Together in the process.

Nursing staff at Frimley Park’s Maternity Unit have given the thumbs up to the protective visors produced by ​Gordon’s School’s Design Technology (DT) Teacher Tom Webb.

In just over a week Leighton Park has become the centre of a huge face shield manufacturing operation. The School has established a network of 18 manufacturing partners to increase capacity and has so far provided 6,000 face shields to 79 organisations at the frontline of the Covid-19 response. This includes 8 hospitals and 18 GP surgeries. All of this has been made possible by the huge generosity of the public, with over £17,000 having been donated for materials through a GoFundMe page: bit.ly/LP4NHS.

Three sisters from East Meon, Hampshire, have taken on a lockdown challenge to raise money for the Hampshire Medical Fund’s ‘Dig Deep Campaign’. Daisy age 13, Flora age 11 and Betty age 8, who are past and current pupils at ​Highfield and Brookham Schools, challenged themselves to stay in their dining room for 24 hours without any screens – iPads, phones, TV – and only allowed themselves to leave the room to use the loo. They brought their bedding into the room as well as games, books and toys to keep themselves entertained.