School Community Support
Fundraising for schools will increase the number of teaching places available to children, involve business volunteers, and provide additional resources. Additionally, it will:
- Give primary schools the tools and confidence they need to successfully approach businesses
- Engage business professionals who can contribute valuable skills to staff and students
- Further embed the value of strong literacy and numeracy education into the wider community
- Help teachers bring curriculum to life and add to educational experience of young people
- Provide a model for business engagement with numeracy and literacy teaching in primary school
Business support at a local level will not only impact on the numeracy, literacy and financial education of children in these schools but also raise children’s aspirations by providing business role models at a formative age through business volunteers. Education remains one of the top causes that UK companies support and multi-year grants awarded to the Business Support Programme will help to ensure that more children continue to fulfil their potential.
Whilst the Every Child a Chance Trust endeavours to raise funds centrally for schools, the Trust is a small team. In order to grow we need to impart our knowledge and skills to schools so that they have the confidence and means to raise their own funds. This approach complements the government’s ‘Big Society’ agenda where community organisations are being encouraged to generate funds for projects and volunteering locally. In the future schools will adopt a more market driven approach to purchasing products and services according to individual need.
To enable schools to be more self-sufficient in recruiting their own sponsors, the Trust has produced a 32 page toolkit and CD-ROM called ‘In Good Company’ (PDF, 620k) and template applications (PDF, 2.3mb). In the past we have run seminars with schools and local authorities to help them understand how to identify prospective funders and develop proposals. Workshops on fundraising knowledge and skills have also been delivered to regional consortia so that clusters of schools can pool contacts and resources to make joint bids for funding.
If you are a school and would like assistance with your fundraising or would like to support a school, please contact:
Jeanette Grose, Director of Operations & Development, ieanette@everychildachancetrust.org.uk, tel 020 7749 5144.