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By Heather Park
FUNDRAISING – Quick and easy
Tip: Bring a friend!
Encourage prospective volunteers to hook up with a friend and share a task. For example, one parent might do admin and planning for an event while the other focuses on ticket sales.
Clean up! Recycling schemes take minimal effort to set up so this might be the perfect job for a busy working parent. It involves a call to a supplier to book a collection date, agreeing that date with the school, then promoting the scheme to parents. Many suppliers even provide poster and letter templates. Popular PTA recycling schemes range from ink cartridges and textiles to DVDs and gadgets, so simply choose the one that’s right for your school. Once your PTA has registered with your chosen scheme, set up a collection point and advertise in advance so parents can start sorting and saving their unwanted goods. Visit our online suppliers directory for details of recycling companies working with schools –
pta.co.uk/suppliers.
Persuading parents to join the committee might be asking too much, but could they take on the odd job? Here’s a list of ideas to get you started...
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ig events are brilliant fun and great for bringing in the cash, but not everyone has the time to commit
to something that takes so much planning and organisation. Some parents have volunteering
in their blood (they’re probably already on your committee), while others will never help, no matter there are those who might consider helping, but are reticent about the amount of time and effort that might be expected of them. To persuade this group to get involved
you should make it clear that there are plenty of smaller or one-off jobs that need doing! Put together a list of activities – you could even provide an estimate of the time commitment involved – then send out a letter to parents encouraging people to pick a hassle-free job that suits their schedule. To make it easier, we’ve compiled
a list of simple-to-organise fundraisers. Although some of them may look daunting to begin with (a circus!?), most of these activities can be arranged with little more than a few emails or phone calls!
Give up to gain Lent, which begins on 14 February, provides the perfect opportunity to engage pupils in some sponsored fundraising. Again, setting this up only requires a bit of negotiation with the school (for activities such as a sponsored silence, which is run in the classroom), and a bit of admin. Simply agree what it is you want to encourage children to give up – sweets, TV, even talking! – for a set amount of time, getting supporters to sponsor them for their incredible willpower. Make collecting money even easier by setting up a JustGiving ‘Campaign’ page (highlighting what you are raising funds for), to which individual pupils or classes can link. JustGiving has automated the process of claiming Gift Aid too, so taking online donations really does cut down the workload – visit
justgiving.com/pta for details.
pta.co.uk SPRING 2018 37
ONE THING... If you can only do
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