Albert Marsh Funeral Directors donates £900 to Millie College

Albert Marsh Funeral Directors in Wareham, Dorset, has donated almost £900 to Livability Millie College, an independent specialist college at Holton Lee near Sandford. 

The funeral home, which is a branch of Douch Family Funeral Directors, raised the money last year and nominated the specialist college as the beneficiary. 

Livability Millie College provides post-16 provision for students with a wide range of needs and who face social and emotional barriers. 

Some students live with autistic spectrum conditions and others have learning and physical disabilities. 

The curriculum is developed around enterprise and includes horticulture, conservation, animal care, catering and retail. 

Annabelle Pearsall, education enterprise and visitor services manager at the college, said: “The funds received will support the work we are doing in establishing a thriving enterprise for our students and participants to gain essential life skills and carry out work-related learning.

“We believe in promoting independence and developing the student voice through our activities. Students have previously used their forum to decide where funds will be best used on site, to support everyone.”

Emma Byron, branch manager at Albert Marsh, added: “Everyone through the Douch group of funeral directors raises money for good causes and great charities. We raised this money last year and thought that Millie College was a great recipient because of everything it does.

“It is an astonishing facility in a 350 acre nature reserve close to Poole Harbour and works wonders with the students. It is superb that they teach about enterprise and try to raise funds from everything they do.”