YouTube stars go back to school to fundraise for Comic Relief
Howard Lake | 8 September 2014 | News
With children back at school for another year, YouTube is running a back-to-school-themed campaign this week to help raise funds for Comic Relief. The School of YouTube involves some of the most popular YouTube stars returning to a virtual classroom where will learn something new and then share it with their fans around the world.
In exchange for these challenges, they will invite viewers in the UK and USA to show their support by donating to Comic Relief. Funds raised will be used to help disadvantaged young people around the world to go to school and receive a life-changing education.
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The School of YouTube runs from 8-12 September with the strapline laugh, learn, give.
Teachers taking part include:
and students include:
Some of the lessons include…
How to land a plane in an emergency
Tom Scott learns how to land a plane in an emergency, all within the safe confines of a flight simulator:
How to master Archery
Tyrannosauruslexx learns the basics of archery:
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.