Friends of Sandside Lodge
Registered Charity Number 1183213
We are a small group of parents/carers and friends of Sandside Lodge School, who have set up a charity to help raise vital funds for our amazing school.
Our fundraising focus for 2024-2025 is to raise at least £250,000 to enable the conversion of an unused lodge building on the school’s land into a small, not-for-profit, community café for the students to work in.
If you would like to donate to this project you can do so by going onto Just Giving or contact Katrina or Denise at friends@sandside.org.uk

The Lodge Cafe





Meet the Team

Nick & Denise are the parents of Emily who has been a student at Sandside since 2018.
Nick is Managing Director of a local stone business.
Denise works helping charities raise funds through lotteries.

Paul & Katrina are the parents of Ben who is now in Sandside Sixth Form.
To support Ben with his needs, Paul is a full-time Shared Lives Carer.
Katrina works for BAE Systems.

James is a local brick business owner, whose son Hugo is in Year 2 of the school.

Dawn works as a Teaching Assistant at the school, and her son Jack attends Sandside Sixth Form.

Mel is the school’s Business Manager.