Hollie was committed to the Aventure Orphanage in Kenya even while at Putney High School. As a Charity Rep throughout her Sixth Form, she raised money to help the poverty-stricken children.

The scholarship enabled her to travel to Africa in her Gap year to see the orphanage for herself. Hollie left in January and is working at the orphanage until May before returning to England to study sociology at Leeds University in October 2010.