The support of your school is so valuable to the families we work with in rural Africa. Just £10 is enough to supply a family with a loan of improved seed and training, so you can see how a little goes a very long way!
So get your school involved with the simple fundraising ideas below and start helping children get enough food to eat, giving them the energy to enjoy their childhood.
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Collection box template
For a simple way to collect spare change, download our collection box template. Pupils could decorate the box using the suggestions on page 3 which include goats, bees and bright African patterns. Then take the boxes home and start collecting spare change!
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Create a cook book
Create a cook book by compiling favourite recipes from staff and children and sell copies to guests at your Christmas fayre, summer fete or Harvest festival. Children could illustrate the recipes!
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Giant maize cobs
Draw giant maize cobs and encourage pupils to collect 50p’s and colour in each corn as the money is collected.
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Sponsored walk, skip, run, silence or read
Challenge yourself and ask friends or parents to sponsor you – contact us for sponsor forms.
Crazy clothes day
Pay £1 to wear home clothes to school for the day. Or wear funny hats, pyjamas, backwards clothes or wellies to school.
Bucket of pennies
Spend a month or so trying to fill a bucket full of pennies or try to fill a smarties tube full of pennies.
School Disco
Have fun dancing the early evening away with a school disco.
Paint a goat with pennies!
Create a large drawing of Goat, Pig or Chicken (or any other livestock that families in Africa benefit from) and cover the animal in pennies – you can even chose which animal your donation will go towards at our online shop.
Face Painting
Set up a face painting stall at a school fete and charge £1.
Guess how many sweets in a jar
Fill a large jar with your favourite sweets and charge 50p for friends to guess how many are in there. The winner gets all the sweets!
Sunflower growing competition
Sunflowers are really important for farmers in Africa. They can grind the seeds into oil and sell it to pay for essentials. You could plant your own seeds, give a prize to the tallest, and sell the sun flowers to friends and family for £1.
Hold a green-themed party
Have green drinks, food and outfits. You dress up as Aliens, caterpillars or trees!
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