Friends Of Tudhoe Colliery

14/12/2025

12/12/2025

🔔✨ Friendly Reminder! ✨🔔

Don’t forget our Hot Chocolate & Mini Craft Sale is happening today!

If you missed the Christmas Fair, this is the perfect chance to pop down and warm up with a delicious hot chocolate, and browse some of the lovely crafts we still have available.

We’d love to see you there and appreciate your continued support for our school community. ❤️❄️

12/12/2025

A big well done to our winner! ✨🎄

We have a winner of our Name the Dog game from Friends Of Tudhoe Colliery Christmas Fair. Joyful is so excited to have found his forever home 🤩

09/12/2025

🎄❤️ A Huge Christmas Thank You! ❤️🎄

As our Christmas events are coming to a close, we want to say the biggest thank you to everyone who helped make it such a success.

✨ To all the parents, carers, and grandparents of our school children, thank you for your generous donations, your time, and all the help you gave. We truly couldn’t do it without you.

✨ A special thank you to Croxdale Community Centre for hand-making beautiful items especially for the fair. Your creativity and support mean a great deal to us.

✨ We’d also like to give a big shout out to the Community Champions from
Asda Spennymoor, Tesco, and Morrisons Bishop Auckland for their fantastic donations this Christmas. Your kindness helps bring our events to life.

✨ And finally, thank you to Raby and Beamish for your wonderful contributions to our raffle. Your support greatly enhances our school community.

We are truly grateful for every single person and organisation who helped, donated, crafted, or came along. Your generosity makes a real difference to our school and our children. ❤️🎁

05/12/2025

☕✨ Missed the Christmas Fair? We’ve Got You Covered! ✨🎄

If you didn’t make it to our Christmas Fair don’t worry! We’ll be holding a Hot Chocolate Sale and Mini Craft Sale so you can still grab some festive treats and handmade goodies.

📅 12th December
⏰ 15:00 - 16:00
📍 Outside reception

Come along for a cosy cup of hot chocolate and take a look at the lovely crafts we still have available. Every purchase helps support our school and the work of our Friends group.

We’d love to see you there! ❤️❄️

03/12/2025

🎄✨ Christmas Fair Reminder! ✨🎄

Don’t forget our Christmas Fair is today!

Join us for a festive afternoon filled with games, stalls, festive treats and more! 🎅🎁

Bring along family and friends, and help support our school while enjoying a wonderful community event. We can’t wait to see you there! ❄️💫

27/11/2025

A special thank you to the wonderful person who dropped in these beautiful handmade Gonk ornaments!

We really appreciate all the effort you have gone to! Thank you for helping support the friends and our school we can’t wait to put them out for sale at the fair! ❤️✨

26/11/2025

🎨✨ A Sneak Peek at Our School Fair Crafts✨🎨

We’ve been busy getting creative and we couldn’t wait to share a little preview with you! Here are some of the lovely crafts that have been made for our upcoming School Fair, there will be even more goodies on the day as well as a couple independent stalls!

Our amazing volunteers have put so much time, effort, and love into preparing these items. 💛

Have a look at the photos below and let us know your favourites! We can’t wait for you to see everything in person on the day 🎄

24/11/2025

⏰✨ Friendly Reminder! Pre-Order Forms Due 26th November ✨⏰

Just a quick reminder to all our parents and carers to please return your Christmas pre-order forms by Wednesday 26th November.

🎄 Sweet Cones
🦌 Reindeer Dust
☕ Hot Chocolate Cones
🐶 Dog Cones

Getting forms back on time helps us make sure all orders are prepared and ready for you🎅🎁

Thank you so much for your support! 💛✨

18/11/2025

🌟 Join the Friends of Tudhoe Colliery! 🌟
We’re looking for parents, carers and guardians who would love to help make a difference in our school community!

The Friends of Tudhoe Colliery is a small but dedicated group that helps raise vital funds for our school through events, raffles, fairs, and fun activities for the children. We’re hoping to welcome some new faces, no experience needed, just enthusiasm and a willingness to get involved whether it be by manning a stall, suggesting ideas or helping us be creative!

By joining us, you can:

✨ Support school projects and enrichment activities
🤝 Meet other friendly parents and carers
🎉 Help plan and run exciting events for the children
⏰ Give as much or as little time as you can every bit helps!

If you’re interested or would like to know more, please get in touch with the school office or Miss Gray. We’d love to have you as part of our team!

Together, we can help make school life even more magical for our children 💛📚