FUNDRAISING – Success stories
on the Broom sitting on their balcony. At my house, we chose The Scarecrow’s Wedding and made the characters out of papier mâché. It’s a lovely way of getting kids and parents to do arts and crafts together. These days, we have a digital
version of the map that people can buy through an app, but we also have paper versions available for those who prefer that, and we sell them for £3. We try to get as much publicity as possible so that lots of people sign up. The local paper supports us, and this year we got a slot on our local BBC radio station. We also make flyers and distribute them around the town. Next year, we’re planning to get a banner made as well, and I’m challenging myself to get 30 families making scarecrows. Marie-Anne Amos, co-chair, Bowerhill PTA, Wiltshire (406 pupils)
‘Julia Donaldson and Emma Thompson joined in our secret postcard auction’
T
he inspiration for our secret postcard auction came from
seeing how big charities auction off artwork by famous artists and thinking, why don’t we have a go? I compiled a list of celebrities and wrote to them via their agents, sending each one a postcard and a stamped addressed envelope and asking them to create something for us with their signature on the back. Many people did not respond, but some did, including Julia Donaldson, Emma Thompson, Rob Brydon, children’s author Sue Hendra and illustrator Adam Stower. We wanted the project to be
inclusive, so we invited all the pupils, parents, the local community and lots of local professional artists to create their own postcard-sized works of art too. We held an exhibition of all the artworks at our school and asked the public and our local newspaper to attend. Everyone got a quiz sheet to use while looking around and trying to guess which postcards were by famous people. Julia Donaldson made a beautiful
Room on the Broom picture with a footnote apologising to Axel Scheffler, which fooled many people because they thought it must have been there to throw them off the scent. Guests also argued over a picture of a pig by Emma Thompson because she had signed it on the
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front and they couldn’t decide if the signature was genuine. She also kindly sent us a drawing of Miss Trunchbull from Matilda, which my son bid on, thinking it was a Pokémon character. After the exhibition, we opened
an online auction using jumblebee, which was very straightforward. We kept it open for a month and held a grand finale at our annual PTA quiz night, and encouraged many people to bid at the last minute. Quite a few postcards sold for £30 or £40 each, and Julia Donaldson’s raised the most at £49. In total we raised we raised more than £1,700. Sarah Davies, secretary, Fulbourn Primary School PTFA, Cambridgeshire (280 pupils)
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