Schools fundraising

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Are you a teacher or a parent? Do you want to get your class involved in some fun activities while learning and supporting Blind Veterans UK?

Organise a fancy-dress day themed around a class topic or hold a sports day with some fun prizes. Maybe you could ask pupils to give up sweets – or their devices – for a week. Make use of a cookery session to help your class host a bake sale in aid of vision-impaired ex-servicemen and women. 

It doesn't matter how much you raise. Your activity will generate vital awareness in your community and in your young peoples' minds - they are our future supporters!

We’ve loads of fundraising tips, ideas and resources to help you make your event a huge success and, most importantly, fun for kids!

Try out theses activities with your class

Brew Up

Enjoy some goodies while raising funds for blind veterans.

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Every penny counts

Recycle and raise funds with this sustainable fundraising activity.

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Dress Up

Choose from our suggested themes or hold a non-uniform day.

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Celebrate VE Day 80

Run, hop, skip, or jump 80 laps of the playground, hold a Brew Up street party or a 1940s Dress Up. Sign up for our activities - or tell us about your own idea - to access VE Day 80 materials, including a booklet of our blind veterans' stories and memories.

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Schoolkids walk length of Yorkshire to raise money

Hundreds of children took part in a fundraising challenge in aid of Blind Veterans UK.

A total of 380 kids from Asquith Primary School in Morley, West Yorkshire, walked the length of their county between them. They were inspired by Simon Brown, one of our blind veterans and a former pupil at the school.

Simon was doing a charity walk from Land's End to John o'Groats to raise funds, and the kids wanted to do something similar. Asquith head teacher Gillian Austerfield said of Simon:

"As he was walking the length of Great Britain, the children decided to walk the length of Yorkshire."

Simon, who now works for us as Communication and Engagement Officer, said:

“It’s great that the kids are getting active and doing something poignant and fun to support Blind Veterans UK”.
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Fundraising children outside their school in West Yorkshire

More fundraising ideas

  • Walk – organise a sponsored walk around your local area for staff, parents and kids. 
  • Sports day – set up a sports day for kids and parents and charge an entry fee for fun events like tug of war, sack races, and egg-and-spoon races. Ask a local supermarket to donate sweets or stationary to give out as prizes.
  • Give something up – ask your class to abstain from something for a week in exchange for sponsorship. Suggest they give up sweets or their favourite treat. Bonus points if you can prize them away from TikTok or Snapchat for a week! 
  • Collection boxes – set up a collection box in your school and ask staff and parents if they'd like to contribute. 
  • Raffle – ask local businesses to donate prizes and sell tickets to staff and parents.  
  • Fancy-dress day – pick a fun theme and ask parents to make a donation. 

"Blind Veterans UK brought me back to the world and put me back in touch with everything a normal able-bodied sighted person could do."

Rob
Blind veteran

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