Beach party raises cash for charity

A beach-themed bash was organised by national diploma travel and tourism students to mark the close of their first year at college. The charity party - which featured a barbecue, swing ball, Wii games and a tug of war – was also attended by students from the college’s air cabin crew diploma.     

“Today’s party forms part of a course unit on events, conferences and exhibitions” explained MidKent College student Amie Roberts. “We had to organise the whole get-together from scratch. First of all we had to decide on a charity and a theme, and then we had to budget for food and activities.”

Tickets were sold at £5 each to enable costs to be covered and to help the students raise an equal amount for Cancer Research UK at the same time.

“It’s been fun as well as a great learning experience for us,” continued 17 year old Amy, who lives Kings Hill and led her class in organising the beach-themed blow-out. “I want to work in events management in the future.  This experience has shown me just how rewarding and stressful events management can be,” she said. “All I can say is: it’s a good job I like a challenge.”