Children's sport charity launches fundraising campaign throughout UK schools
Howard Lake | 7 May 2006 | News
Children’s sport charity Schoolchildren for Children has launched its second campaign to all UK schools with the support of double Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes.
Schoolchildren for Children will encourage children to fundraise while participating in organised sports activities in their school. Contributing schools will keep fifty per cent of money raised for their own sports programmes. The remaining fifty per cent will be donated to needy children in countries worldwide.
Schoolchildren for Children was launched last year to schools across the UK after a successful pilot project in Wales in 2004. On 30 September 2005, 213 schools, with 60,000 pupils, registered to take part. Children raised a pound each by walking or running the equivalent of a mile. £40,000 was raised for schools in South-East Asia and Africa, with a similar sum being retained by participating schools for extra curricular sports activities.
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Among the recipients of last year’s funds is Jae Lee School in the tsunami-damaged Ko Lanta region of south-west Thailand. The charity is also supporting schools in Nairobi’s Kibera slums and in Nepal.
Schoolchildren for Children supports the government’s Healthy Schools Programme, which aims to support children and young people in developing healthy behaviours.
About Howard Lake
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.