Watch the video of the two girls going to prom below.
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Proms are glitzy affairs meant for students to showcase just how beautiful or dashing they are. But two students decided to do something different for their Year 6 end of the year leaving.
Pip Thorn, 10, and Amelie Horn, 11, surprised everyone by arriving in wheelbarrows instead of using a posh sports car or limo. And the reason? They wanted to donate the money they would have spent on a fancy ride to charity instead.
Sophie Thorn, 34, the pair’s proud mom, said: “Pip was offered to go in a limo and she and Amelie said ‘it’s a waste of money, it’s silly.’
“The girls said we want to do something different and give the money to charity so that someone else can benefit.
“I joked and said the girls could go in anything.”
So Sophie came up with the idea of using wheelbarrows for transport and the girls were all for it.
When they were asked who should be the beneficiary of the donation, the Osbourne Trust immediately came up. The Trust was started in 2014 for the benefit of the children of cancer patients.
According to Sophie, Pip became inspired to donate her limo fee after she thought of her former teacher Sarah West who had been diagnosed with cancer.
Pip said: “I decided to go in a wheelbarrow because the other options were very expensive so I just thought I’d go in a wheelbarrow and donate the money to a charity.
“When we turned up everyone started clapping at us.
“I felt that I need to donate the money to the Osbourne Trust because I wanted to help someone of the same age.”
Sarah said: “I loved it, I taught Pip when she was in her first class so I was really touched, a few tears may have been shed.”
Emma Osbourne of the Osbourne Trust said: “Young people get such a bad press but we were really honored these amazing young girls chose to help us!”