Campaign News

The Pigs4Kids campaign received a boost last year with the promise of match-funding from the medical diagnostic company Sysmex. This spurred enough people to donate via their piggy banks so that today we were able to accept a cheque for £5,000 from the Managing Director, Keith Howes, representing over £10,000 in donations.

Keith has been a supporter of the school for a number of years and was impressed by the facilities and space available in the new building. He has a nephew at the school and is aware of the challenges facing children with special needs. Mr Howes was delighted to spend some time with Palm Class and joined in with the children while they sang their good bye song for him.

Hollywood heavyweight and Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey CBE is the newest star that is holding a pig in support of the Pigs4Kids campaign. The star of the much talked about ‘House of Cards’ on Netflix has always been a supporter of special needs in the UK and was the guest of honour at a Perfect Day, a huge public event in support of special needs teaching held in Swiss Cottage.

The American actor, director and artistic director at the Old Vic theatre in Waterloo, posed for a photo with his pig after hearing about the campaign from Marsha Lee, founder and chairman of the pigs4kids.

Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove has agreed to support the Pigs4Kids Campaign which is raising money for children with special needs at Swiss Cottage School Development & Research Centre.
The MP accepted his piggy bank at the annual Hampstead & Kilburn Conservatives dinner last week “Children who are living with special educational needs can achieve amazing things but we all need to work together in order to ensure that they have the teachers and facilities that will enable them to reach their full potential.”
If you want to join Michael Gove in raising money for children with special needs you can donate online now, or adopt a piggy bank to collect money for our campaign.

Skye aged eight and her pig Parma Ham donated a wopping £88.19p (and a handful of Euros) to the Pigs4Kids campaign to help Swiss Cottage School and Development & Research Centre. Thank you Skye, your hard work and dedication is greatly appreciated and the money will make a big difference to lots of children.

Sysmex, a pharmaceutical company based in Milton Keynes, have allocated £5,000 at matched funding for the Pigs4Kids campaign, for every £1 raised by the campaign Symex will match! Thank you Sysmex, the money you match will make a big difference to our School and Development & Research Centre.

The children of Hampstead Hill School in Pond Street have adopted two piggy banks to support the Pigs4Kids campaign, which is raising money for Swiss Cottage School, Development & Research Centre.

Alexa Greayer, deputy headteacher of Hampstead Hill, said: “They’ve done great work for many, many years. I remember from when I was a child knowing about the school in Swiss Cottage – they do wonderful work.

“We have had autistic children and children with physical problems at the school so we are very keen that our children help others.”

Good luck with your fund raising and thank you to all the boys and girls at Hampstead Hill School for supporting our piggy campaign!

Photo taken by Nigel Sutton

Pigs4Kids celebrates its official launch with a two page spread in today’s Ham&High newspaper. Congratulations to everyone for their hard work in launching this fantastic campaign.

The pigs4kids campaign will be launching on the 4th of October with a special feature in the Ham&High to celebrate moving into our new world-class purpose built school for children with special needs.  The new state-of-the-art school includes a new Development & Research Centre bringing together experts from around the world to drive excellence in special needs education on an international scale.

Help celebrate our launch by adopting a piggy!

O2 Centre, Finchley Road, has adopted Pigs4Kids as it’s charity of the year.  This is fantastic news and we are extremely grateful to Jason King and his team at the O2 Centre for their inspiration and dedication to transforming the lives of children with complex learning difficulties.

The Pigs4Kids campaign is due to launch in September 2012 when the children from Swiss Cottage and Jack Taylor Schools start the autumn term in a brand new school building complete with a range of excellent facilities, and a fantastic new Development and Research Centre. The campaign is raising the money needed to run the centre to ensure the “Swiss Cottage Method” brings excellence in special needs education throughout the UK and the rest of the world.