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Students and staff at SEEVIC College, Benfleet Campus are getting ready for the festive season by holding a week of fundraising events during their annual Charity Week from 14-18 December. The College hopes to raise over £3,000 for it’s chosen charities, Help for Heroes, Teenage Cancer Trust and Essex Police Dogs.

At the Benfleet Campus different events will be taking place everyday including a variety show, an eating contest, a twister tournament, fancy dress theme days and SEEVIC’s Got Talent – the College’s very own take on the extremely popular show Britain’s Got Talent, plus lots more.

Auditions for SEEVIC’s Got Talent have now been completed and the contestants have been shortlisted. One of the students who auditioned for a place in the show was Ryan Sholem, 16, from Chalkwall who wowed the judges with his magic tricks. Ryan said: “I have been doing magic since my brother bought me a magic set when I was 6 and I have been a member of the magic circle since I was 10, when I was talent spotted at an event for underprivileged children. I think my audition for SEEVIC’s Got Talent went really well, I hope that I get through as I am saving my best tricks for the real show! When I leave SEEVIC I would like to become a magician like my idols David Blaine and David Copperfield.”

Charity Week is organised and run by the SEEVIC College Student Association whose members also act as the judges during the audition stages of SEEVIC’s Got Talent. Student Governor and member of the Student Association Cassie Phillips, 17, from Westcliff said: “There are lots of events to look forward to this year, we have to put a lot of work into planning it but it’s definitely worth it! The best part of being involved with the planning of Charity Week is seeing the auditions for SEEVIC’s Got Talent. We had the good, the strange, the different and the entirely amusing. It has enabled me to see the different and amazing talents of the students SEEVIC College.”

The three charities that the College will be supporting were chosen by the Student Association and by a student vote. Cassie added “The charities were chosen with the students ideas and opinions in mind and also with their involvement with class votes. For example Help for Heroes was chosen this year because a large number of people have friends and family in the military or are considering it as a career option themselves.”

The SEEVIC College campus in Basildon, New Campus Basildon, will also be hosting events for Charity Week including face painting, karaoke, cake sales, a staff versus students musical chairs game and fancy dress theme days.

Charity Week adds an extra spark of excitement for staff and students who are already looking forward to Christmas festivities of their own. It is a fun and enjoyable way to end the term whist helping out some extremely worthy causes.