# Pandemic has negatively impacted fundraising for 94% of schools

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/10/29/pandemic-negatively-impacted-fundraising-94-schools/
- Published: 2020-10-29T12:48:28+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**A survey of school and preschool members of Your School Lottery has found that
99% have raised less money as a result of the pandemic lockdown.**

 

[Your School Lottery](https://www.yourschoollottery.co.uk/) received 336 responses
to its survey, sent out in July. With schools closed and the country in lockdown,
98% reported having to cancel fundraising activities, while overall, 94% reported
a negative impact on their fundraising with 72% of these impacted very negatively.

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Lotteries have provided a way to keep fundraising income coming in for 80% however,
with the same percentage saying that this was the only form of fundraising they 
had been able to do during lockdown.

 

Looking ahead, the vast majority – 96% – expect their fundraising to continue to
be impacted in the next academic year, with 80% saying the pandemic had affected
the finances of their parents and community.

 

A previous survey, ‘[A bridge too far?](https://research.kent.ac.uk/philanthropy/wp-content/uploads/sites/667/2019/12/a-bridge-too-far-report-2.pdf)’,
by Alison Body, Canterbury Christ Church University, and Eddy Hogg, University of
Kent, found that 94% of schools felt pressurised to fundraise in 2018, up from 66%
in 2016, with 43% of primary schools reliant on fundraising income to deliver statutory
teaching activities.

 

Commenting in the report, Richard Manville from [PTA+](https://www.pta.co.uk/) (
the membership body for Parent Teacher Associations) said:

 

> “The survey bears out the problems all PTAs have experienced through the lockdown
> and the knock-on impact this will have in terms of the money they have to spend.
> “Although this challenging situation is sure to continue for some time, PTAs are
> resilient and resourceful, and this comes through in the survey. I fully expect
> PTAs to develop strategies that adapt to this ‘new norm’.”

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