A carefully compiled treasury of tips, suggestions and guidance to help schools and other education providers in the UK and Ireland to boost their income and manage their fundraising projects.
In this harsh economic climate, school leaders and school business managers (SBMs) are consistently looking for ways to stretch their budgets and diversify their sources of income yet the time and resources they have available to come up with solutions can often be as limited as the funding itself.
This is where The School Fundraising Handbook can help.
Covering grants, crowdfunding, events planning, school lotteries, recycling fundraisers, affiliate schemes and much more, Lindsey Marsh's indispensable guide maps out all the different fundraising streams available to schools and provides a comprehensive directory of over a hundred grants from which to choose. Lindsey also uses her fundraising expertise to guide readers through the grant application process from start to finish, so that even the most inexperienced fundraiser can feel confident about seeing their projects through to fruition.
Features and benefits:
- Equips schools with a better awareness of both the money-making and money-saving opportunities available to them.
- Shares expert advice on how to prepare a successful grant application, complete with a detailed explanation of what the grant-makers are looking out for.
- Offers ideas and insights on how to: fundraise through wider community involvement, reach out to corporate links, and benefit from various other opportunities available to schools (e.g. hire schemes, guest speakers, employee volunteers, free gifts, free site visits, etc.).
- Provides tips and suggestions to help staff fundraise for and coordinate specific initiatives, such as school trips, extracurricular clubs, environmental projects and subject-specific projects.
Market/audience: An invaluable resource for school leaders, SBMs and anyone involved in fundraising in the education sector.
