The Freddie Farmer Foundation is £4,704.55 better off thanks to a 13-year-old student from St. Olave's Grammar School who nominated the charity to benefit from the school’s annual Festival and Cabaret.

The Form 8B student from the school on Goddington Lane, Orpington nominated the charity at school assembly where pupils got to vote to support their favourite local cause.

Student Nikhil Dawood said: “I’m proud that I could help and I’m very happy for the children that will benefit.

“I’ve seen first-hand how the specialist treatment the Freddie Farmer Foundation provides benefits movement.”

The annual school festival and cabaret supports a local and a national or international charity every year and last time the students raised over £9,400 for the Freddie Farmer Foundation and DEC Ebola Crisis.

Students raised the funds through various Festival events including a non-uniform day, stalls, game show events, and a Sixth Form musical Cabaret on stage in the Great Hall.

“We are incredibly proud of all of our pupils for their hard work in raising such an impressive amount,” said the schools Director of Sixth Form, David Budds.

“The money raised will be split evenly between our two chosen charities and we are delighted to be in a position to offer such robust contributions to two such deserving causes.”

Charity officer Karen Smith said: “We’re over the moon and we can’t thank the school enough. We received the funds last week, we’ll use it to purchase adapted equipment needed for the children receiving therapy at our centre.

Over 1000 students took part to raise the funds.

*The new Freddie Farmer Foundation physiotherapy centre opens in Bromley later this year to provide intensive physiotherapy programmes for disabled children. The centre is one of a handful of independent UK therapy centres offering specialist equipment and therapeutic exercises, supporting disabled children from all over London and the South-east.

www.freddiefarmerfoundation.org.uk