Agenda
Grant success Benefits for all: As part of our funding
bids, it was important to demonstrate how the MUGA would benefit the wider community. Alderley Edge Hockey Club described how the MUGA would enable it to set up disability hockey sessions. Alderley United FC explained how it would gain vital access to training facilities – benefitting over 300 children who play for the club each week. We also included details of the benefits for local guiding, scouting and holiday club organisations.
Maintenance: Grant funders were interested to know how we planned to maintain the MUGA. We demonstrated that the school could set aside income from lettings to clubs and societies – even though they were set at an affordable level – and that the PTA would contribute an equal amount from fundraising activities. This will be enough to maintain and re-surface the MUGA for the next 10 to 15 years.
appeal. A parent on the committee is a charity bid-writer, and she helped source grants and make applications. The PTA had a contact at a grant- giving trust who liked our project and put us in touch with other funders. We held a firework display, film
nights, school discos and a Bag2School collection. We hosted a sell-out quiz for adults which created a buzz around the PTA and helped us make connections. There was such a feeling of optimism, but our events programme came to an abrupt end when schools closed because of Covid. Juggling family life and homeschooling was tricky, and the PTA came to a standstill. When the children finally went
back in September 2020, we began again in earnest. The community was behind us, and we were positive we could reach our target. We launched a community appeal.
The parish council ran a full-page article in their newsletter and the right people saw our call for help. Donations came in from all sections of the community. Some donors had lived in the village for many years
and had either attended the school themselves or had children who were past pupils. The appeal raised over £30,000.
Fundraising frenzy Over the next few months, we held
as many events as were possible within the Covid restrictions at the time: our annual bales race raised
Funding breakdown
PTA funds already in the bank £26,000 Community appeal
£32,000
Events from September 2019 to February 2020
Events since September 2020 Smaller grants
Alderley Edge Institute Trust grant Gift Aid
Outgoings TOTAL:
£3,000 £10,000 £10,000
£50,000 £1,500
-£5,000 £127,500
Publicity: Articles in the parish newsletter and on local website
alderleyedge.com also helped show funders that we were doing our very best to raise awareness of our cause.
over £4,000 – four times as much as usual, and at Christmas the hamper raffle raised a huge £1,350. We joined YourSchool Lottery, produced a school cookbook and held a ‘break the rules’ day. We also signed up for Gift Aid and claimed back around £1,500. By April 2021, we’d secured a
£5,000 grant from the parish council and received another £5,000 from The Beech Hall Trust. In May, we put together a big funding application to Alderley Edge Institute Trust. We were asked to present our case for funding to them and the following day, we received the incredible news that we’d been awarded almost £50,000, taking our fundraising total up to £125,000. We’d done it! Anna Baker, chair, Alderley Edge Community Primary School PTA, Alderley Edge, Cheshire (210 pupils)
pta.co.uk AUTUMN 2021 11
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