Cavendish PTA is a registered charity and works solely to raise funds for Cavendish Community Primary School in West Didsbury, Manchester

About us

Who are the PTA?

Find out who Cavendish PTA are, what we do, how we fundraise and why.

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Meet the PTA

Meet our committee members and class representatives, and find out more about the roles and how you can get involved.

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Ways to donate

Find out how you can donate to Cavendish PTA. From one off donations to sponsorship.

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Upcoming Events

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Easter Raffle 2026
Feb 27
Easter Raffle 2026
Easter Bonnet Crafternoon 2026
Mar 27
Easter Bonnet Crafternoon 2026

  • Volunteer

    Join our volunteers and support the running of our events and fundraising activities.

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  • Donate

    Donate directly to Cavendish PTA and help us reach our fundraising goal.

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  • Shop

    Purchase school uniform or shop from a range of preloved toys and children’s clothes.

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  • Meetings

    Read our meeting minutes and find out how funds are being allocated in the school.

    Meeting minutes

Our News & Activites

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Easter Raffle Prizes announced for 2026
Easter Raffle Prizes announced for 2026
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Easter Raffle Donations 2026
Easter Raffle Donations 2026

We are asking local businesses and organisations if they are kindly able to donate prizes for our hugely popular Easter raffle!

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Bonfire Night total revealed 2025
Bonfire Night total revealed 2025
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2024/25 Fundraising Total
2024/25 Fundraising Total

The PTA took an incredible total profit of £21,849.94 this year! As a result, the PTA have been able to support the school by paying out around £30k for school trips, classroom supplies and more…

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Playground Fundraiser Challenge for Health & Wellbeing Week
Playground Fundraiser Challenge for Health & Wellbeing Week

Children at Cavendish are doing an active challenge to raise funds for the Playground Improvement Project.

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First Place Win for the Cavendish Mission to Mars Crew!
First Place Win for the Cavendish Mission to Mars Crew!

Cavendish’s Mission to Mars crew rocketed into first place!

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Nursery spaces are available for 3 to 4 year olds at Cavendish Community Primary School, starting in September 2026. Express your interest for 2026 enrolment 0161 445 1815 or by emailing admissions@cavendish.manchester.sch.uk Please spread the wor
Join us on Thursday 19th March 2026 for an open evening highlighting Cavendish Community Primary School's EYFS provision for 2 year olds, with presentations and guided tours at 4pm & 5pm of the nursery and reception facilities. Express your inter
🎟️🐣 It’s Easter raffle prize time! We’re very excited to announce that SJM Concerts @gigsandtours have once again very generously donated tickets to our Easter raffle AND we have 50+ prizes and counting from local businesses to be won!
We are asking local businesses and organisations if they are kindly able to donate prizes for our hugely popular Easter raffle! If you would like to make a donation, or own a company or work for a business that would like to donate a prize, we welc
We’re thrilled to announce that we raised £1364 at our discos this year! Thank you to everyone who bought a ticket and of course a huge thank you to all our wonderful volunteers! The money raised will be put straight back into the school
The easiest way to support our PTA is to sign up to easyfundraising! It's simple, shop with 8,000+ online retailers and we'll receive a free donation. This month only, with their Free £2 App-eal, if you register to support us via their app, we'
Nursery spaces are available for 3 to 4 year olds at Cavendish Community Primary School, starting in September 2026. Express your interest for 2026 enrolment 0161 445 1815 or by emailing admissions@cavendish.manchester.sch.uk Please spread the wor
We are asking local businesses and organisations if they are kindly able to donate prizes for our hugely popular Easter raffle! If you would like to make a donation, or own a company or work for a business that would like to donate a prize, we welc
The PTA and the schools UNICEF Rights Respecting Council are working together to collect items for Chorlton & Didsbury Foodbank. What we need: Long Life Fruit Juice, Tinned Fruit, Tinned Meat, Coffee, Pasta Sauce, Jam, Chocolate, Toiletries. Pl
Express your interest now for a September 2026 enrolment for Cavendish Community Primary School’s new 2-year-old provision. Contact 0161 445 1815 or email admissions@cavendish.manchester.sch.uk
🪩 Tickets are selling fast for the Early Years EYFS Disco (Nursery & Reception) next week on Friday 6th February! 🪩 Tickets £6 and includes glitter tattoo and sweets. Please select a child+adult ticket if you will be attending with your
Come along on Friday 30th January from 9am-10am to the Annex Building for a special coffee morning where we'll be prepping sweets for the school discos and it's a chance to meet other parents for a chat and the PTA over a brew and feel part of the co
🪩 Tickets are now on sale for the Spring school discos! 🪩 KS1 & KS2 Discos on Friday 30th January (Rhodes Building): Years 1, 2, 3 (KS1) from 4:30pm -5:45pm   Years 4, 5, 6 (KS2) from 6:15pm -7:30pm   Early Years (EYFS) Disco for Re
The PTA are happy to announce that the Christmas Event last week was a festive treat for all and raised a total profit of £1228.26! Thank you to all who came along and to everyone who helped with setup, running the event and for tidying up at t
📚 Cavendish Community Primary School is now taking applications for their pre-school (Nursery) class for January 2026. This is for children who were born between 1st September 2022 and 31 December 2022. For more information, email Diane Berisford
🎄🎅🎁 On Friday 12th December (3.30pm-5pm) we’ll be hosting our Christmas Event for Cavendish families, where we’ll be offering mulled wine, hot chocolate, festive games, Christmas crafts, sweets and more to be announced, plus an opportu
🎆 We’re thrilled to announce that we raised an astonishing £16,896 at our Bonfire Night this year! Thank you to everyone who bought a ticket and supported us by visiting one of our stalls, and of course a huge thank you to all our wonder
🎆 Timings for tonight's SOLD OUT Bonfire Night at Cavendish: Gates open at 5pm Bonfire from 5.30pm Fireworks Display 6.30pm - 7pm 🍕🌭🎸✨🧁🍬🍪 @theboulevarddeli will be joining us again with their delicious pizza slices. We'll also have the BBQ fi
🚨 Tickets are now sold out for Bonfire Night on Friday! 🚨 Please note there is no waiting list and be vigilant of scammers trying to sell tickets online. There may be genuine sellers but we can help by checking our system to see if they have inde
📚 Cavendish Community Primary School is now taking applications for their pre-school (Nursery) class for January 2026. This is for children who were born between 1st September 2022 and 31 December 2022. For more information, email Diane Berisford