Local Community

We were very happy to again donate £350 towards the cost of the yearbooks for the Roecroft leavers this year. Gemma - FORLS Treasurer said "Thank you for the donation from First Step for the leaver’s yearbooks-your continued support of the school and its fundraising and activities is much appreciated." You're very welcome! we were very happy to contunue supporting sponsorship for...

We were very pleased to donate £300 to the local Dance Steps Academy, who needed help fundraising for them to take 15 young dancers to the Dance World Cup in Spain this year. We received a lovely thanks from Dance Steps Academy Founder - Sarah Johnson: "Dear Jules & David I am writing to you to officially express our gratitude for the generous contribution you have made to our fundraising...

This Christmas First Step in conjunction with Etonbury Academy are proud to be supporting The Need Project www.theneedproject.co.uk who do an outstanding job for local community.  The students at Etonbury paid to wear their Christmas jumpers to school for the day and raised a massive £1404 and @EACA (The Parents and Teachers Association) added £250. First Step who...

We were so impressed by all the entries in the end we had over 500 entries from local schools - thanks so much to everyone that took part!!!! You are all so creative and made such an effort. WELL DONE !!!!! :) Amazing work our winners; Woody from Fairfield Park school and Elodie from Gothic Mede and all our runners up; Annabel - Gothic Mede, Sophie - Roecroft Lower, Eva - Langford Village Academy, Ruby...

Hope you are all having a lovely Summer holiday!!!🌞🌞🌞🌞 With just a week left of the School holidays, please don’t forget the colouring competition🎨 for all local schools.. Your child has until the 10th September to get colouring-in. You could win Amazon vouchers and cash prizes for your school. More details:...

Jules and David have a table of 10 at the The Stress Ball - 14th September 2019.A black tie event to raise funds via the Poets IN The Creative Mental Health Charity at Chesfield Downs Golf and Country Club. Find out more about the Poets IN at: https://www.poetsin.com To book tickets please go to: https://www.facebook.com/events/287654008807121 Poets IN offer support for mental illness and...

First Step Partner Jules Harwood and world cup hopeful Kayleigh Jean Biggleswade Ladies rugby player Kayleigh Jean is hoping to be a World Cup winner - but with a different-shaped ball. Kayleigh, who joined Biggleswade Ladies last year, is travelling to South Africa in August to play for England at the Indoor Netball World Cup.Her rugby teammates will be cheering her on, watching the...

Check your child's bookbags for a great colouring competition this Summer! Win a £50 Amazon voucher and £100 cash donation to your school! Closing date 10th September...

Jack Roberts contacted First Step back in November 2018. Jack lives on Fairfield park and is in Year 10 at Samuel Whitbread Academy. He has been give a once in a lifetime opportunity to go to Peru in 2020 to volunteer in the community. Whilst there, he will be improving sanitation and helping build greenhouses and a school. We of course wanted to sponsor Jack on this great venture so donated a lump...

First Step are very happy to donate this hamper filled with goodies for this years Macmillan Coffee Morning. Being held Friday 28th September Arlesey Resource Centre is once again supporting the Macmillan Coffee morning this year, September 2018. As part of the fundraising efforts the morning will comprise of coffee morning and raffle to boost our fundraising opportunity. Every year this is a real...