Promotes charitable work and global solidarity through giving and volunteering.
Activities:
School charity fair: Students run stalls to raise money for selected causes, learning budgeting and teamwork.
Kindness challenge week: Daily acts of kindness tracked and reflected on through journals or class discussions.
Service learning projects: Students identify a local need (food banks, shelters) and create action plans to support it.
Charity awareness research: Explore how charities operate, funding, and global impact through presentations.
Charity marketplace – Students create products such as artwork, crafts, bookmarks, friendship bracelets or baked goods and sell them to raise money.
Charity art exhibition – Students create artwork based around themes such as kindness, equality, community, giving or making a difference.
Sponsored silence – Students raise sponsorship by taking part in a set period of silence, with the money going to a chosen charity.
Sponsored steps challenge – Classes compete to achieve the highest number of steps over a week while raising sponsorship.
Class fundraising competition – Each class chooses a charity and competes to raise the most money, with progress displayed around school.
Charity quiz – Run a quiz covering charities, humanitarian issues, world cultures, famous charitable initiatives and general knowledge.
Donation drive – Collect specific useful items for a local food bank, shelter, community centre or other organisation.
Charity concert – Students and staff perform and raise money through ticket sales or donations
Community clean-up – Organise a litter pick or environmental clean-up and link it to a local environmental charity.
Whole school awareness ideas:
Whole-school volunteering programme
Charity partnerships and sponsorships
Values-based education focus on empathy
Social media ideas:
“Acts of kindness” reels
Fundraising progress updates
Student-led giving stories
Hashtags: #BeyondAllyship #CharityDay #KindnessMatters #GiveBack