Radius

Radius is our community partnerships programme. We work closely with a number of local primary schools and charitable organisations, with a focus on improving and enriching the lives of primary-school aged children.

Through Radius we identify and support community-based endeavours that align with NHP’s core values. With the support of the Parents’ Association, the Foundation aims to harness the collective resources of our school community to provide both financial assistance and service, including the sharing of resources.

We believe all pupils mutually benefit from these partnerships, developing a motivation to help and an awareness of the needs of others from an early age; and that through striving to create a school environment that more closely represents the diversity of experience that abounds in our local area, we offer a richer and more meaningful educational experience for all students.

Since its launch in 2020, the NHP community have raised over £60,000 for Radius projects, in addition to a number of resource sharing partnerships. We are currently working in a number of partnerships with local primary schools and organisations including:

Avondale Park Primary Family Group

For the academic year 23/24, we worked in partnership with Avondale Park Primary School to part-fund The Family Group. This is a group therapy model delivered weekly with a therapist and school staff member working with 8 families (children and parents/carers) of children in Years 2 and 3. The sessions promote wellbeing and learning for those children struggling socially, emotionally, behaviourally or academically over an 18 month period. The sessions allow for parents to share and help one another in a non-judgmental environment as well as form a strong support network between group members. The cost of this successful programme was £23,000, of which the NHP Foundation Radius fund contributed £13,000.

The Notting Hill Children's Community Choir

A weekly community choir based on fun, not ability, which we launched in early November 2021 for eight participating local primary schools, including NHP. Up to 48 children meet each week at the Notting Hill Methodist Church to have fun, sing together and enjoy working with other schools. We are currently working with Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary, Oxford Gardens Primary, Colville Primary, St Mary's Primary, Thomas Jones Primary, Avondale Park Primary and St Charles Primary.

Do you have an idea or project in mind which could be suitable for Radius?

If so, we would love to hear from you. Please contact Imogen Galsworthy, Head of School Development, at imogeng@nottinghillprep.com.