Social distancing and lockdowns during the current Pandemic have affected us in different ways. While most of our schools have re-opened, opportunities to bring groups together for fundraising activities for your school are very limited. One possibility if your are on the School's Parents Association, is to co-ordinate some Sponsorship Activities that Parents, Kids or Families can do from home to raise funds for the school.
While a 5km walk is achievable for most families a 5 km run might take a little bit more preparation so families can choose the activity that is appropriate depending on their age ranges and level of fitness. If it is a family group undertaking the challenge, suggest changing the distance to 2.5km and to make it more fun, include a dress up theme.
This one is mainly for the men in the family! Now is a good time to sport a Beard (or shave one if you've been growing it all summer). If the Dad in the household is up for it, get him to grow or shave a beard and seek sponsorship for the challenge. The kids can enjoy taking photos of the resulting clean or hairy face to prove the challenge has been completed.
The competition standard can be set to suit primary or secondary school students. Groups of different families could group together for this challenge and organise a zoom competition with an entrance /participant fee. Set a date and create a Zoom call and let the spelling fun begin!
Instead of a Table/Pub Quiz, why not organise a School Zoom Quiz. Depending on the size of the school and number of families, it could be scaled to have a Family Zoom Quiz for each year group. Families could pay a participation fee with a prize for the winning family. With a little google searching you'll find lots of great articles on how to organise online quizzes - for example it's better for the quiz master to use a presentation and share there screen so that they can do picture rounds, music rounds etc. Some thought also needs to be given to how you collect the answers but there's lots of great advice and suggestions to be found online
So whatever size your house is, there is always room for a little bit of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Gangsta Granny, or even The Philosopher's Stone.
Provide sponsorship cards to the students and encourage them to seek sponsorship to read a certain amount of books over a term
Ciaran
(01/10/2020 16:18)
Fitter Younger provide an excellent full school fundraising event called the School Marathon Relay. It was a huge success recently for St Brides Ps Belfast, a school with almost 900 pupils. All social distancing protocols were adhered to and the pupils had a great time. You can see more information on www.schoolmarathonrelay.ie
Rahim khan
(03/01/2022 12:15)
Respected sir
I'm running a private school in charbagh district swat kpk. The students getting education here belong to very poor families. It's a co-education high School. We have 27 staff members including 5 women. As you know that private institution needs regular amount to run the system smoothly but unfortunately the poor parents can't afford even the regular monthly fees. The situation to a great extant is unsatisfied.we are facing problems regarding staff salaries and buildings rent. Moreover the sitting chairs of the students are in bad condition. The school needs science Lab, Library, sports goods, computers multimedia and printers.
The girls section of the school needs special attention because their parents don't want to spend money on them so they stop their education process and on the other hand we can't afford qualified female teachers for them.
Due these great problems the school showing good results in swat board each year. This is all possible because of teachers hardwork and cooperation
You have been financing such institutions in Pakistan, so I request you finance Khyber school charbagh.
You are requested to please visit the school and observe the whole situation of the school.
Principal
Khyber school charbagh swat
Best regards