Mary Hare students challenge Isle of Wight
Coles Diner founder Kirilynn Gardner and four students from Mary Hare School will take on the Isle of Wight in a unique challenge between April 26 and 28.
Team Happy will travel around the Isle of Wight using as many different forms of transport to cover as many miles as possible. The team will be fundraising for The Mary Hare Foundation, a national charity for profoundly and severely deaf children.
Kirilynn who has worked at Mary Hare School in Newbury for 11 years says “To have the opportunity to watch children become adults is amazing but to actually be a part of it and help make a difference means so much more.”
All the students involved in the challenge work at Kirilynn’s Coles Diner youth club which first started in 2001, “I believe the youth club offers so much more than burgers and fizzy drinks. It gives the children an insight into working life and a chance to gain important life skills.”
The students also volunteer at Coles Diner’s Happy Days club which Kirilynn set up in 2012 for children with autism after her son Finn was diagnosed with Asperger’s.
To sponsor Team Happy go to www.justgiving.com/teamhappy
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