Seeking funding from several sources is a fantastic way to generate income – as these stories demonstrate!


‘Donations of over £2,340 meant we could buy new library books’


‘At Greenleys Junior School, we recognise the importance of reading regularly. We recently became a “Book Talk” school but have struggled to resource the scheme since school budgets became so tight. We knew that we had to do something radical to raise money to fund new books. This started with members of our staff, along with two parents, taking part in a 10K run at Silverstone. We set up a JustGiving page to support us with this and raised £590. This was a fantastic start, but it was not sufcient to buy enough books to keep the Book Talk scheme running over the course of an academic year. I wrote to local businesses to ask for support before taking the plea further aeld, writing to larger businesses to ask for donations. We were thrilled to receive a


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response from computer software company PSI, which donated £1,000 and also came to our school to spend some time with the children, talking about the importance of reading and whether technology has had an impact on reading for pleasure. With this money, we managed to buy several hundred library books. PSI then published an article in the MK Pulse, which in return generated a response from a member of the public, who donated some of his personal books to us. We also built a relationship with Willmott


Dixon, a building company that’s working on a project at the Milton Keynes Museum. Staff came to the school, we visited their site, then took part in a national competition for the company, coming runner-up. In return, they donated £750.


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Two of the reading areas, designed to be ‘places where we read’. These were built to develop a love of reading and to add some excitement to the school’s reading zones


We feel privileged to have met so many


people who also believe that reading is a vital skill and who value the importance of high- uality modern ction for the children to enjoy. The response from pupils has been nothing but positive and we look forward to building new relationships in the future.’ Jemma Freeman, Deputy Headteacher, Greenleys Junior School, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire (211 pupils)


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