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SHS Teacher Goes to Extremes for Charity!

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Sheffield High School teacher and intrepid charity fund-raiser Clare Wallace has completed another round of ‘extreme’ cello activities during the summer holidays.

Clare took her cello to play at another round of unusual recital locations across the North of England. Her day job is teaching German at the School, but she regularly teams up with two other cellists to form ‘The Extreme Cellists’ – a string trio raising money for their chosen charities of Aspire and PACT. Aspire supports people with spinal injuries and PACT (Parents’ Association of Children with Tumours and Leukemia) is a Sheffield-based charity that provides a range of support services for families whose children have been diagnosed with cancer.

Previous challenges taken on by the Extreme Cellists have included playing underground in the Blue John Cavern in Derbyshire, at various locations on a walk from Manchester to Sheffield and on the rooftops of most of the 42 Anglican cathedrals in England. In 2008 they even played on the tops of the highest four peaks of the British Isles!

This summer, Clare and her colleagues took their cellos on Alfred Wainwright’s famous Coast-to-Coast Walk, a 192-mile trek from St Bees Head to Robin Hood’s Bay and have so far raised over £6000 for charity. The Extreme Cellists have their own website. For more details, please see www.extremecello.com.