# Children's sport charity launches fundraising campaign throughout UK schools

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/05/07/children039s-sport-charity-launches-fundraising-campaign-throughout-uk-schools/
- Published: 2006-05-07T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.

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.

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Schoolchildren for Children supports the government’s Healthy Schools Programme,
which aims to support children and young people in developing healthy behaviours.

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