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9 Contents Features


6 Fundraising success How one school hit gold with a goal-scoring speed challenge, and another raised three times its target


9 COVER STORY Enabling enrichment Extra-curricular activities, trips and events can create memories that last a lifetime. So how can you deliver them?


42 Last word Amanda Burgess is planning ahead to build funds and spread some warmth


Grants


15 Grow your own orchard Veolia Orchard offers free fruit trees to schools so that pupils can enhance their environment


18 COVER STORY Focus on grants for literacy Our extended four-page special reveals how one school received a £15,000 grant for a new library. We also cover a range of grants for books and reading programmes, including the LoveReading4Kids scheme and the National Literacy Trust


23 Grants for schools Our pick of grants for capital funding to improve facilities


4 AUTUMN 2023 FundEd Partnerships


25 Working with business If you want to gain support from companies local to your school, you need a plan of action


28 Skilling up your students Businesses have much to offer schools as part of their environmental, social and governance policies


31 COVER STORY Know your network Connecting with other SBMs can help deliver better value for your school


Fundraising


35 Make more with match funding Reach out to your parent volunteers, whose employers can provide a healthy boost to your fundraising efforts


36 A team of one How do you develop an effective fundraising programme when there is only one of you?


Resources


39 Polytunnel teaching spaces How one social enterprise is pioneering the use of these versatile outdoor ‘classrooms’


40 Learning languages Emma Griffin profiles products and workshops to support MFL and EAL


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