Events and fundraising projects
FPZ New Year Cheer Quiz
Our popular annual quiz night by Zoom is back in January 2025.
You are warmly invited to join our New Year Cheer, virtual Quiz from the comfort of your own home.
To join, please let us know as soon as possible. More information can be found on our JustGiving Quiz Fundraising page.
The Big Walk 2025
A Dart up the Dart - Circular walk in South Devon
Our big walk in 2025 will take us from Brixham harbour in South Devon along the coastal path to Kingswear, then along the river Dart to Greenway, and from there back to Brixham along paths and fields.
The walk will be in five sections, totalling 18 miles, with an additional 3 mile diversion around Greenway for the hares. The difficult section is at the beginning, up and down along the coast path, and it will possible to do just one or several sections, or all of it.
As usual some food and drink will be provided along the route. We would hope to get walkers back to Brixham by around 6pm, slightly earlier than previously, so people can have time to relax and replace lost calories!
After the Two Saints Way in 2018, the Isle of Purbeck in 2019, Woolacombe in 2021 and Bridport in 2023, this will be the fifth, and possibly final event in this series. Please do come along to meet old friends and make new ones, and to enjoy the varied countryside and challenge yourself in support of the vulnerable children in Kabwe.
We will update this page with more information closer to the time, and please keep an eye out in our newsletter and social media.
Bourne2Sing Concert
Please join us on Friday, 8th November at 7:30pm, for our next event: a charity concert by Bourne2Sing in aid of Future Pillars Zambia at Wimborne Methodist Church (BH21 1DY). Bourne2Sing is a Dorset-based male voice choir, performing popular and enjoyable songs.
Entry is free. All donations on the night will go directly to FPZ to support the project in Zambia.
Refreshments will be served during the interval. There will be a chance to meet the charity trustees and hear about and see updates from the school.
This promises to be a most enjoyable evening of popular choral music and we hope you will mark the date to join us.
Past Events and Projects Gallery
There is a wide range of opportunity for participation and involvement. The trustees are often proactive in leading the events. Some involve a Physical challenge, others need your participation in zoom Quiz nights, many supporters enjoyed being Published authors in one of our collaborative publications whilst others participated in yoga and pilates classes as part of our wellbeing week.
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Support the school - and have fun doing it!
Community walks in amazing locations
Since 2018 we have organised four mass participation sponsored walks in the UK averaging 70 walkers at each event with age ranges from 5 to 80! We have walked thousands of kilometres – and worn the trophies of minor injuries, blisters and fatigue for days afterwards. In 2020 we decided to hold the Mass Walks every 2 years. In the intervening years we have arranged Trustee challenges; in 2020 the Trustees traipsed along the length of the river Thames and in 2022 we will be doing our best on our Dawn to Dusk challenge on The Ridgeway National Trail (see Events).
A cross - continental ‘first’ was achieved in 2019 when we held our walk in Dorset and a simultaneous event was held in Kabwe, with our Chair of Trustees participating alongside teachers and hundreds of our schoolchildren. What a day that was! So much so that we repeated it again in 2023. The aggregate distance covered by all the walkers reached the 8,000 Kilometre distance between Kabwe and the UK.
If you want some exercise, in great company and for a really good cause check out our upcoming events. Or get in touch!
Best feet forward and thanks to our supporters for making these events what they are.
In total these walks have raised over £62,000. Well worth the blisters!
Be a published author - with FPZ publishing
These collaborative books brought together FPZ supporters, Adult Learners, Year 8 pupils and FE students and published their writing.
We edited and typeset the work and the participants were delighted to be ‘published’. Each author donated to FPZ in exchange for a copy of the book - every one is a now a published author!
Here’s the link to the free 2020 Hindsight ebook:
2020 Hindsight eBook on Issuu
Week of Wellbeing
Trustee Emma Berry organised a virtual Week of Wellbeing, fundraising for the new classroom block. The week was run with the help of over 30 professionals from the wellness industry. We had yoga and pilates teachers, nutritionists, tai chi and qigong specialists and artists involved - something for all the family. We ended the week with a relaxing sunset painting evening, the perfect way to wind down after a busy week.
The week was not only a great way to raise money, it also allowed us to raise awareness of the charity with over a hundred new individuals attending sessions.
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Quiz nights- on Zoom
FPZ Quiz nights are legendary for being huge fun - full of music questions, film and TV questions as well as general knowledge.
“Great fun - a great cause with brilliant questions”
“The Quiz of the Year ! ” A.C. Cornwall
