Dear ^Name.Title^ ^Name.LastName^ ,

Our annual Whole School Harvest Thanksgiving Service will take place on Sunday 06 October, starting at 10.00am. 

Merchistonians are also warmly invited to attend and there will be refreshments in the Old Library afterwards. Parking will be in the Rogerson and Chalmers Quads and on the Main Drive, and any overspill will be on Colinton Road. 

For those who cannot join us in person, the event will be live-streamed at the following link: https://vimeo.com/event/4601808/80cd9a0252

As is usual for this service, we will be taking a collection of non-perishable food items which we will then distribute to local food banks. If you would like to contribute to this, we would ask that you bring these with you to the service and leave them at the entrance to the Memorial Hall. Where this is not possible, you may bring them to the Memorial Hall no sooner than 5.00pm on Saturday 05 October. The food banks have requested, please, that no donations of pasta are made, as they have a surfeit of this. Tinned items are preferred where possible.

The Service will have a focus on the fundraising and charity work undertaken by the recent South Africa Rugby Tour in the Langa township in Cape Town. The retiring collection will be in aid of our Langa projects, specifically the rebuilding of three (perhaps four) family homes which were gutted by fire two years ago and are yet to be repaired.

With thanks and best wishes, and hoping to see many of you there on Sunday

Danny Rowlands
Deputy Head Wellbeing