CRC Volunteering Week

Our Cambridge and Huntingdon campuses were hives of activity recently for CRC’s annual Volunteering Week! Each year staff and students get together both on and off campus to carry out voluntary work that benefits our students and the community. 2024 was a bumper year with everything from litter picks to a care home coffee morning and a charity fundraiser.

Here is a selection of events from this year’s CRC Volunteering Week:

Litter Picks

There were lots of teams of students and staff out and about litter picking in the local community and campuses.

Uniformed Protective Services students did a litter pick and clean up in Orchard Park. They split into four groups and covered all areas. The learners cleaned up graffiti and washed down the play equipment in the play parks at Central Avenue and Topper Street.

UPS also carried out a thorough litter pick in the woodland area behind the skate park on Ring Fort Road and the A14. The rest of the UPS students cleared the student car park and surrounding areas of the college.

Our Senior Management Team, Marketing and the Careers and Personal Guidance team went litter picking around the Cambridge and Huntingdon campuses and in the local community at Huntingdon and across to the Science Park in Cambridge.

Care Home Residents Coffee Morning & Campus Clean Up

Supported Learning students in Huntingdon hosted a coffee morning for residents from local care homes and cleaned up the outside area in preparation for summer.

Other Volunteer Week Events

Other events include Making Easter Cards, a tombola on both campuses to raise funds for the Kenya Help Charity which raised £358.11, and a Travel Agency Drop-in Centre.

Outdoor Musical Instruments

Some of the volunteer projects are ongoing including the musical instruments for outdoors being made by Engineering. We will provide updates in future news articles.

At CRC we live our values, one of which is being collaborative. We work together to share ideas and resources. Our Volunteering Week sees us work collaboratively with students and staff across both campuses to deliver projects that benefit CRC and the wider local communities we serve.