Do you think your school can help an East African school in need? Well your right, you can. Schools across the UK are full of excited, energetic children who are benefiting from having positive educational environments and facilities for sports and play. Your school also has a team of teachers who see the benefits every day of having enough tables, chairs, books, stationary, footballs, net balls and play equipment. Together the children and Teachers of your school are the perfect team to create change across East Africa.
So what do you need to do?
- Get in contact, we will send you all the relevant information to help you help another school
- What is your target? Do you want to fund a sports project, a playground, a refurbishment or the whole lot?
- Set your school goal’s and check out our school fundraising guide below to help with ideas on how to reach it. Our EAP founders will also be happy to attend your school for a talk.
- Get a project committee together to help plan the school fund raising
- Send any photos of your fund raising to EAP and we can update our website and show the children in East African who made their new playground/renovation/sports projects possible.
Fund raising Ideas for schools
Most school Parent Teacher Associations have been raising funds for years. So your school will already have loads of ideas to start your fundraising. Here are just a few extra ideas which some school have done and have worked very well.
- Donuts sales
Students at the University of Leeds took advantage of people’s sweet tooth by selling Krispy Kreme donuts for a week and they rose over £3000.
- Book drive
Put a ‘Book Bin’ at the reception for students, teachers and the library to drop off books that are no longer used. The book drives are easy to set up and easy to advertise threw classes, assembles, newsletters and notes to parents
- Fete
Fete’s are always a good way for the school community to come together for a cause. You could do a safari themed fete, with face painting, African music and dancing; giving a different twist to our English fetes.
- Drama show
Drama, song and dance are great ways of expression in every country. Setting up a drama and performing arts night at your school can raise lots of funds to help you reach your targets. Record the nights performance and we can show the school in East Africa you are supporting your video, and in return you may get one back from them!
- Ball
Organizing a ball or country dance night is a wonderful way of getting the parents involved in the schools efforts and can get parents involved in more schools activities. These nights can help both your school and your target.
- Fancy dress teachers day
Children love to see their teachers involved in anything comical. So giving each class a target to reach, with the higher the target the funnier the fancy dress will motivate the students to raise the funds.
- Give it up
The school body doesn’t need to give up much to support an EAP project. If the teachers were to give up the morning coffee and kids Friday night sweets for just one week a school could easily raise £500
- 50p a day
It’s a simple no frills way to raise the money, by the whole school saving 50p a day in a week a whole sports program could be paid for
- Old sports kits or equipment
We are not always asking for financial donations from schools. Many schools have new sports equipment that renders the old kits and equipment redundant. Well send the redundant kits to us and we can provide a school with much needed equipment.
