Fundraising for trips


Begin crowdfunding It’s straightforward to create a campaign on a crowdfunding platform, which can then be linked to your social media. Adding a QR code makes it even easier for people to donate from wherever you use the code – whether it’s posters, leaflets or school apps. If you have an ongoing ‘School Fund’ crowdfunding campaign, simply create a linked page dedicated to funding trips. You can also use the platform to


get your pupils involved in group and individual fundraising activities and events (see the ‘How to’ guides and ‘Fundraising Success’ articles on FundEd.org.uk). Secondary school pupils, in particular, can hold fundraising events for a trip throughout the year, from selling cakes at parents’ evenings and school events to holding fundraising dinners and quiz nights.


Work with your PTA Some PTAs put aside funds to support school trips and educational enrichment, so why not work more closely with yours on a specific trip fund with a fundraising target for the year. Visit the website of our sister publication PTA+ for inspiration, pta.co.uk.


Create links with local businesses Try to cultivate ongoing mutually beneficial relationships with locally based companies so that you can easily approach them with specific requests, such as help with funding a trip. There may be organisations (branches of national companies for instance) that do not have products to donate for raffle prizes, but could potentially support your school by sponsoring an annual trip. Look out also for opportunities for match- funding and sponsorship that could help businesses with their Corporate Social Responsibility goals. Publicly thanking corporate


donors and sponsors, as well as highlighting their support through your school media channels and possibly even through trip branding and merchandising, provides them with important publicity.


Create a green funding stream If you’re planning an eco trip, then why not set up a practical recycling initiative that will lay the groundwork of resource conservation for your pupils before you go. Collect for terracycle.co.uk, or use a product recycling scheme


AFFORDABLE ADVENTURES


English Heritage has relaunched its education programme for 2022, to encourage more schools to take advantage of the benefits of trips and visits for children’s cross-curricular learning. The programme incorporates both free school trips and paid-for expert-led Discovery Visits. One of the UK’s largest providers of


school trips, English Heritage experienced an almost 99% drop in pupil visitor numbers in 2020/21, compared to normal annual figures of around 340,000. Chief executive Kate Mayor says: ‘We can play our part in the process of levelling up and improving the wellbeing of children from every community. I am personally inviting teachers up and down the country to bring their pupils to one of


10 SUMMER 2022 FundEd The charity offers free self-led


school trips to more than 400 historic sites, including Walmer Castle in Kent and Boscobel House in Shropshire. Discovery Visits are available at 27 sites, and cost £100 per school for an immersive hour-long session. Visits must be booked online at least 14 days in advance. English-heritage. org.uk/learn/school-visits. The National Trust offers annual


our historic sites and to see for themselves the huge benefits the experience can bring, not just to children’s learning, but also their health and happiness. Connecting with a building that has stood for many centuries is deeply rewarding, bringing history and past generations to life.’


Educational Group membership for schools, from £53 to £128, depending on the size of the school roll. This allows schools to visit as many sites as they like for free. The RNLI has free entry to its museums. Local museums such as the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester and the Canal and River Trust Museums are also free.


such as emptiesplease.com (print cartridges) or rag-bag.co.uk (textiles). All are experienced in working with schools.


Start a school lottery Set up a school lottery, with a dedicated funding stream for school trips. Read how one school raised thousands of pounds this way on our ‘Fundraising Success’ web pages and visit Yourschoollottery.co.uk.


Grant funding As well as our round-up of grant opportunities overleaf, look out for emerging sources of funding from local community organisations and charities to improve educational engagement and support children and young people post-pandemic. These may include Rotary or Lions clubs, local councils, voluntary organisations and philanthropic trusts. As a case in point, Priory School in


Lewes, East Sussex, was able to secure funding from regional grant giver The Fontwell Foundation and the local Police Property Fund which, along with funding from its PTA, covered the £7,000 cost for 20 Year 10 vocational students to take part in a residential farm trip for vulnerable young people.


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