Funding success
‘We raised £4,867 with the Co-op Community Fund’ FOR MORE
INFORMATION ABOUT GRANT FUNDRAISING, TURN TO P29
‘The Co-op Community Fund enables organisations to register as a local cause for six months. I saw that a school was listed in our local store, so decided to look it up, as we needed a way to fund our Reading Eggs reading scheme. I work full time, so I’m often too busy to run
fundraising events, but I applied for this myself, at home, with little effort. To start off our fundraising, Co-op gave us
£1,000 from their carrier bag charge. It was then down to shoppers to register a membership card
and go online to select us as their local cause. For every pound they spent on own-brand goods they raised a penny for the school when they scanned their card. With 460 pupils and their families and friends, the money was constantly trickling in. Co-op offered us banners for use on Facebook, Twitter and on our website, plus a promotional guide full of tips. The information displayed in about our cause and choose to support it. As our six-month period ran across two academic years, partway through we had a new audience in the form of new starters. At the end of the six months, unallocated
funding was split equally between the three causes, giving us a massive boost with a total of £4,867.53! This more than covered our Reading Eggs subscription, and we are planning to use the excess funds on similar educational memberships. Lucy Owen, Friends of Woodheys member, Woodheys Primary, Cheshire (460 pupils)
Schools aren’t eligible for the Co-op Community Fund, but PTAs are – if you have a PTA, ask them
coop.co.uk/ membership/local-community-fund.
‘A donation of 20 COMPUTERS has made our code club even better’
‘We set up our code club in 2015. As a retired IT teacher, I volunteered to run it. We had a dozen Year 6 children attending once a week. They were an incredibly bright bunch who coded at home as well as in school, and even set up a Skype group so they could help each other when I wasn’t with them! In 2016 we started a second club for a group of 14 Year 3 children, who had completed a course on
uk.code.org in class and wanted to continue coding. Last year, our code club was invited to show the councillors of Tameside Borough Council how easy it is to code. The computers the children were using were
about eight years old; some were running Windows XP, so were quite slow. The school didn’t have any money to buy new machines, so I contacted Emma Grant at Tameside Borough Council and asked if she knew any companies that might have suitable computers to donate. She quickly came back to me after only a week and said that Tameside College would be willing to provide 20 computers, which had been replaced in a recently completed refurbishment. It took a part-time technician about two weeks
to set them up. The school covered the cost of SSD cards to add extra memory at about £35 per
computer, which was a lot cheaper than buying the computers themselves! The computers have made a massive difference – they start up quickly and the software runs effectively. It has had such an impact on the children. The children love coding, and there’s always a buzz in the room!’ Sandra Taylor, volunteer, St Raphael’s Primary School, Stalybridge, Cheshire (204 pupils)
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