will have access to exclusive tools and ideas specifically tailored to help you recruit and engage parents, teachers and other supporters to use easyfundraising.org.uk and raise money for your PTA.
How can our PTA get started?
It’s really quick and simple. First, you need to nominate one PTA Committee member to be your Cause Administrator. This is the person who’ll activate your easyfundraising.org.uk account, keep your details up to date and access the promotional materials for your school. To get going you simply need to sign your PTA up, fill in the details on the registration page, which include your PTA- UK membership number, school postcode, an email address and your PTA’s details. As soon as you’re set up, your supporters can register, search for your PTA and start raising funds. It’s as simple as that.
Well done if you are… and we are sure you will agree it’s great. As you’re a member of PTA-UK you will now get more support to help spread the word and sign up more parents. Your fundraising page may look a bit different from now on but other than that you can carry on using the site as you normally have been. Go to www. easyfundraising.org.uk/start- shopping/pta for more details.
Can our PTA really raise money that easily?
The answer to this is undoubtedly yes. easyfundraising.org.uk has told us that the average supporter raises donations to the value of £32 a year. In addition easyfundraising. org.uk knows that some canny individuals have raised thousands for their chosen cause by buying online for business supplies. Success is really dependent on how many people your PTA can get shopping online via easyfundraising.org.uk, selecting your PTA as their chosen cause. If you can get just 30 parents supporting your PTA this will generate just under £1,000 for your PTA – money for doing nothing!
TOP TIPS TO HELP YOUR PTA RAISE £1000s...
1 Get started today…… don’t waste time every purchase could count and with Christmas around the corner there’s plenty of money to be raised.
2 Make sure you encourage everyone to install the Find & Remind toolbar when signing up, supporters using this raise up to 5 times more. It’s a handy widget that generates a reminder that will pop up when your parents visit a site that supports easyfundraising. org.uk. All you have to do is make one click to claim a donation. Then simply shop as normal – easy.
3 Start by signing up the PTA committee. Then decide upon an easyfundraising.org.uk champion who can take the lead in getting the message out there and driving more people to use it.
4 Spread the word – the easyfundraising.org. uk site is full of useful tools to help you spread the word. Look out for emails from PTA-UK to get you going and then you’ll be able to access promotional support from easyfundraising.org.uk
5 Think about the times parents, friends and teachers might be buying online and remind them to sign up to easyfundraising.org.uk and raise funds to support the school. And there’s no better time than the lead up to Christmas which is the busiest online shopping period of the year.
6 Announce that the PTA is now using the site in school newsletters and emails, set a date asking people to sign up by, to encourage supporters to take positive action.
7 Get staff and kids involved. Ask pupils to design flyers to promote it to parents.
8 There’s nothing like a bit of healthy competition...encourage parents by searching on other local schools to see what they are raising – all available to view on easyfundraising.org.uk, strive to be the best.