Since the Aquinas Foundation began in 2012 we have been extremely lucky with the support of our Celebrity friends, sports men and women. We have been successful in organizing a number of programs within a variety of our schools in the East Midlands. We are currently in partnership with some great companies who want to be a part of what we stand for. Because of the nature of our work and what we do, lots of people want to be involved.

Stratstone has made it possible for us to provide Land Rover Bikes to many of the schools we work with enabling the school to run projects which tackle attendance and punctuality. This has proved to be a huge success within the schools with one of the schools having the biggest turnaround from the worst attended school in Nottingham straight into the top 3!

Queens Park Rangers and England midfielder, Jermaine Jenas is the co-founder and trustee of the Aquinas Foundation. Born and bred in Nottingham Jermaine wanted to give something back to the city that he grew up in and where he learned his trade. Jermaine has worked tirelessly to get the foundation launched. Jermaine will often lead question and answer sessions within the schools and is involved in many of our ongoing projects.

A massive thank you to Tom Huddlestone for opening the new sports facility at the Nottingham Academy on behalf of the Aquinas Foundation. The Nottingham Academy used to be known as the Greenwood Dale School, which Tom used to attend. To watch footage from the day visit our ‘video wall’.

Sasha Matthews won the Bronze medal at the 2010 commonwealth games in Delhi and has been swimming since the age of 7 becoming professional at the age of 13. Amongst many international event successes, Sasha is a European junior Gold, Silver, and Bronze medallist. We are proud to announce that Sasha will be joining us for our 2014 project in which 2 children from 10 schools chosen by us, will win a swimming lesson with Sasha and some of her GB teammates!

This Year has been a fantastic year with some great projects running within schools across the whole of the East Midlands… Attendance projects have been going full steam ahead with schools improving their attendance scores tenfold! We have had many of our schools competing for their school football/netball/basketball teams in Nike kits sponsored by us at Aquinas! and students in some of our individually chosen schools perfecting their singing voices with the help of one of our singing coaches!

We are always welcoming new supporters to our charity and are currently in talks with a number of sporting celebrities from a wide variety of sporting backgrounds. We are also in the process of announcing some new exciting sponsorships, from companies who have witnessed the work that we have been doing within the schools of Nottinghamshire and the surrounding areas. If you or your company would like to be involved in any upcoming projects or events with Aquinas Foundation please visit our website www.aquinasfoundation.com  and have a read of some of our success stories!

For any questions or queries contact rosie@aquinasfoundation.com

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