Parents raise and donate £120m a year for schools

Howard Lake | 7 January 2003 | News

Parents are raising £56 million a year to supplement the budgets of state schools, according to the National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations (NCPTA).

The NCPTA says that parents donate a further £64 million a year in cash, donated goods such as books and stationery, and voluntary work. Fundraising activities include car boot sales, social events and raffles, according to The Daily Mirror.

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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.