Publication Date: 10-04-2025 09:00
Bellway donates Easter eggs for Ebbsfleet school’s fundraising raffle
A clutch of Easter eggs donated by a local housebuilder have helped an Ebbsfleet primary school raise £689 at its spring raffle.
Bellway Kent gifted 52 chocolate eggs to Leigh Academy Cherry Orchard after the school’s PTA hatched a plan to approach local businesses and ask them to donate raffle prizes.
The developer is building new homes at Alkerden Heights and will have a further development at Castle Grange, which is due to launch later in the year, both in Ebbsfleet Garden City.
Mica and Lisa, sales advisors at Alkerden Heights, personally delivered the eggs to Zoe Bushell, vice-principal at Leigh Academy Cherry Orchard.
Zoe Bushell said: “We are extremely grateful to Bellway for its very generous offer after our proactive PTA reached out to the company to see if it could help provide prizes for our raffle. It is good to see that a big company, which is active in the area, responded so positively to the PTA’s approach.
“The spring raffle is a very important fundraising event at the school and thanks to the huge number of Easter eggs donated by Bellway, we were able to raise a good amount. We used the chocolate eggs to fill up hampers full of treats, which looked really tempting and, I am sure, helped sell tickets.
“In these days of ever-shrinking budgets, fundraisers like the raffle are vital to enable us to have extra funds to buy things such as playtime equipment and to help improve our outdoor area.”
Kirstie Frith, Sales Manager at Bellway Kent, said: “At Bellway our company ethos is to not only provide high-quality new homes and create thriving neighbourhoods but also to engage with the local community. When the PTA approached us, we were more than happy to help out.
“It was lovely for our team to deliver the Easter eggs to the school and to meet Zoe, the vice-principal, and learn more about how the academy operates. We hope that this will be the start of an ongoing and meaningful relationship with the school.”
Bellway Kent is building 182 new homes at Alkerden Heights, including 137 properties for private sale and 45 affordable homes.
The developer is also delivering 56 new homes at Castle Grange, where it will provide a mix of apartments, terraced houses and coach houses.
Both developments are in Alkerden Village, where a total of around 1,500 new homes are set to be delivered alongside a new education campus, market centre and community hub. This is one of three new villages being created within the former Eastern Quarry site where around 6,000 new homes are set to be delivered as part of the wider 15,000-home Ebbsfleet Garden City regeneration project.
For more information about the Alkerden Heights and Castle Grange developments, go to https://www.bellway.co.uk/new-homes/kent/.
