Structured Giving

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Structured Giving Form

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Gift Aid Form

Dear Parents , Carers and Friends

How can you turn £1.15 per week into £5,000 per year? Here’s how…

If every family in the school gave £5 per month (only £1.15 a week), collectively, we could raise an additional £5,000 a year to be spent on our children. This will double the amount of money that the PTFA currently raises for the school on an average year. With the start of the new School Year the PTFA is energised once again to work in partnership with St Peters Catholic Primary School and Miss McNamara as Head Teacher, to create the strongest possible sense of community and contribution to the success of the school.

We will be planning the usual annual activities as well as new ones throughout the School calendar to bring parents, friends and teachers together to have fun and raise money to provide the best possible environment and offering the school can give to our children. The generosity of parent’s time and money year after year makes the partnership of the PTFA with the School a vital one. The funds we raise contribute to the development of a modern and stimulating environment for our children, with access to the kind of facilities and resources which play a key and positive part in the results of the school.

As a reminder, last year the PTFA funded a printer for class 3, a visualiser for class 4, dictionaries and bibles, parties for the children, paid for more than half of the costs of removing the pond and agreed to a significant contribution towards the costs of the new playground equipment and multizone. We would like to take this further this year. We believe we can make an even bigger difference. To turn these words into action, we would like to invite all parents to consider joining us in a voluntary new relationship – Structured Giving. This invitation, put simply, is for all parents to choose if they would be willing to give monthly in a more planned way to PTFA funds via a Direct Debit or Standing order – no matter how small.

Currently our fundraising is heavily linked to our calendar of events. Whilst this provides generous and repeated funding to our activities as a result, it is also variable, difficult to forecast and not consistent. This makes planning and committing to more medium and long term projects to support the school difficult and higher risk of not being successful. It also means that only those parents who have the time to participate in such events find it possible to donate. We’d like to change that. The contributions to the school through the PTFA activities are intrinsically linked to the schools decisions on how is spends its whole budget from government and other sources. Everything the PTFA can provide is something the school does not then have to allocate funds for from other more traditional sources. These other sources are reducing in real terms annually and existing budgets have to be stretched ever further.

Every decision to fund something is increasingly taken at the expense of putting off investment in something else. We believe we can make a material difference via the PTFA through Structured Giving. If the PTFA for example can provide more computers for our children at the school, then the school budget does not have to invest in them, leaving funds for other essential or aspirational choices. If the PTFA can provide new gym or sports equipment, carpet improvements for our children to sit on, audio visual equipment to improve the learning experience or books, arts and crafts – then the school budget that would otherwise have to cover these items, if it could at all, can be used for other choices. This partnership combines to make St Peter’s the successful and joyful place it is for our children to spend their primary school years. If you can , please review the options for joining Structured Giving . If you are a UK taxpayer, the government will add to your donation by 25%, turning your £1 into £1.25, simply by completing the gift aid declaration attached. Please complete the form and return it to reception at school. Decisions on how this money will be spent are taken at open PTFA Meetings. All parents, carers and teachers are automatically PTFA members and are encouraged to attend these meetings and contribute to the decision-making process.

We thank you in advance for your generosity and participation in this new voluntary scheme. Each family’s circumstances are of course different and the PTFA welcomes any and all contributions in time, ideas, resources and Gift Aid donations large or small.   Rest assured this information will be held in confidence and will not be shared beyond the PTFA Treasurer(s).

Thank you Beatriz Martin on behalf of the PTFA