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Pupils at the College work actively to support charities at home and overseas. Support can be in the form of fund-raising or by visiting, helping and working with charities.
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- ECHO, Eastbourne College’s millennium charity launched in the summer of 1999, was set up to enhance the lives of others within the global community. Ten years on, the College community has raised over £70,000 for the four charities supported by ECHO in four different continents: The Hand in Hand Trust, (Lima, Peru); The Tiger Kloof School (South Africa); the Friends of Lisiecki Homes (Poland) and the Miracle Mission School (Faridabad, India).
- Individual houses regularly raise funds for good causes with cake sales, fashion shows, pancake days, film evenings and other initiatives. Every year these house-based activities raise funds for a variety of charities including the RNLI, the Kanji project, the Children's Fire and Burns Trust, , the MS Society, the British Heart Foundation, World Vision, the Chaseley Trust to name but a few. Examples of recent initiatives include the following:
- In February 2009 four sixth form boys from Wargrave House walked from Winchester to Eastbourne in just 71 hours, raising over £3,000 for Help for Heroes in the process.
- In October 2009 Blackwater girls raised over £300 selling pink ribbons during breast cancer awareness month
- In November 2009 the School House girls got on their bikes, and managed to raise over £800 for the St John's United Church Care Centre in South Africa.
- During the Michaelmas 2009 half term, and galvanised by resident house tutor Miss Briedenhann's enthusiasm and energy, ten girls from Nugent House and their housemistress, Mrs Salway, set off to the village of Ekuthuleni for the launch of Africa 1. Here they lived within the Zulu community for six days without electricity or running water. The girls built the villagers a brand-new kitchen, taught the local children geography, drama and netball and, at the end of an extraordinary enriching experience, promised they would return.
- In response to the devastating humanitarian disaster which left 200,000 Haitians dead and over a million homelesss, a Haiti Awareness Day for the whole College community was held on 21 January 2010 when £4,669 was raised in a 24 hour period.
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